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A CHRONIC BATTLEINFIGHTING AMONG AIDS GROUPS SLOWS MONEY TO FIGHT DISEASE

By Ellen Grant
Feb 19, 1992

About a third of a million dollars in federal funds earmarked to fight AIDS wound up mostly unused and in limbo for the past three months because of local infighting that has even professional politicians shaking their heads. The money finally was freed up last week, but there still exists...
AND THE WINNERS ARE. . .

LUCK HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THESE RECIPIENTS OF STATE LOTTERY MONEY

By Ellen Grant
Feb 12, 1992

A good way to hit the jackpot in the Arizona Lottery may not have anything to do with luck. According to some unhappy lawmakers and business people, all you have to do is make promises about creating jobs." Apparently, it also helps if your business is fund raising. Stung by...
THOSE "UNPROFITABLE" CANCER VICTIMS

"CANCEL" IS ALSO A DEADLY WORD FOR MANY ARIZONANS WHO ARE LOSING HEALTH INSURANCE

By Ellen Grant
Feb 5, 1992

For four years, Wilda Heil has been battling ovarian cancer, and at the same time battling to hold on to her medical insurance. Guess which fight she's winning. Heil is one of an estimated 35,000 "medically uninsurable" Arizonans-those who either have been canceled or who can't find an insurer. (That...
A BOX OF SCARY TRASH

By Ellen Grant
Feb 5, 1992

Twelve-year-old John Johnson was playing with his buddy in a ditch behind his east Phoenix apartment earlier this month when he found a cardboard box stuffed with bloody needles. The seventh-grader raced home to show the discovery to his mother. "He was scared," recalls his mother, Sarah Fluhardy. "I could...
LOVE FOUND A HOME HERE'S THE MOST RECENT CHAPTER IN AN ALREADY FLAMBOYANT LIFE

By Ellen Grant
Jan 29, 1992

MiAsia sat in a barber's chair in a little shop in central Los Angeles. It was May 1983, and MiAsia, a Mary Kay cosmetics saleswoman, was looking for a dramatic change. The barber dyed MiAsia's short, dark Afro auburn, but that wasn't enough. She came back a week later, asking...

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