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The Road Not Taken

A long-planned freeway for the fast-growing west Valley is ambling along in the slow lane as state officials, local communities and an influential developer try to figure out just where the road should run

By Howard Stansfield
Jan 1, 1998

Sometime around the year 2000, the Arizona Department of Transportation is scheduled to begin building the last leg of State Route 101. The final stretch will run from where the highway currently dead-ends at Glendale to Interstate 10, five miles to the south. Now, as plans jell, the path of...
Labor Pains

St. Joseph's management is accused of illegal union-busting tactics

By Howard Stansfield
Dec 11, 1997

Federal labor officials have charged managers at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center with attempting to illegally prevent employees from organizing a union. National Labor Relations Board investigators allege that the hospital's management has threatened to fire pro-union employees and drafted overly broad rules designed to prevent employees from promoting...
History Lessens

Trouble's a-brewin' at the museum north of town. Old-timers don't cotton to newcomers who want to turn the desert historical center into a Western theme park.

By Howard Stansfield
Dec 4, 1997

High noon on a spring day in 1994. The stranger steps through the gates of the Pioneer Arizona Living History Museum, takes one look around and shakes his head. Everywhere, he sees things that don't belong, from buckskinners clutching cans of Pepsi and eating foodstuffs wrapped in Ziploc baggies to...
Truck Queue

Business is brisk next door, and Richard Aiello craves peace and quiet

By Howard Stansfield
Nov 20, 1997

Bear the front door of his northeast Phoenix home, Richard Aiello has screwed a small brass plaque to the stuccoed wall. It reads: NEVER MIND THE DOG--BEWARE THE OWNER. On the roof at the back of the neatly maintained home he shares with his wife, Helen, and his 4-year-old daughter,...
Hired Guns

As more businesses and neighborhoods turn to armed private security forces for patrolled services, the debate over the role of cops for hire heats up.

By Howard Stansfield
Oct 23, 1997

The Circle K store on the northwest corner of Seventh Avenue and McDowell is probably one of the more beleaguered outposts in the convenience store's empire. On weekend nights, McDowell Road is crowded with cruisers, the air pulsating with the thump of superamplified car stereos. The store also serves as...

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