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Jana Bommersbach

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BEATEN BUT UNBOWED

KIM DONALDSON TRIES TO RECOVER FROM TWO SAVAGE BEATINGS--ONE BY HER ATTACKER AND THE OTHER BY THE CRIMINAL-JUSTICE SYSTEM

By Jana Bommersbach
Sep 19, 1990

Slowly, so very slowly, Kim Donaldson awkwardly points out the letters on her homemade alphabet board. "I.d.o.n.t.k.n.o.w.w.h.y.I. c.a.n.t.g.o.t.o.c.o.u.r.t." Her mother stands over her, shoving on her reading glasses to follow the clumsy hand movements of her 22-year-old daughter. "This time you will, dear, this time you will." It's the kind...
TEST THE DAMN WATER!

By Jana Bommersbach
Jul 11, 1990

If you've never boiled over at the incompetence of state and county environmental offices, now's the time. If you've never been frightened that their lazy attitude could endanger your life, now's the time. Just ask Ed Whitehurst. He's an ordinary Arizona guy who did the most ordinary thing to seek...
THE TILTED SCALES OF JUSTICE

SO MANY KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG WITH THE WINNIE RUTH JUDD CASE, BUT SO MANY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY

By Jana Bommersbach
Apr 25, 1990

She looked small and frail and bewildered. Her fashionably bobbed hair, like so many women wore in 1931, needed washing. Her dress and hose were soiled. Her gaunt cheeks showed her hunger. Her enormous eyes didn't seem to focus. She cradled her left hand, a bullet still embedded, already gangrenous...
Assault On Domestic Violence

No one's laughing this year

By Jana Bommersbach
Feb 14, 1990

Lawmakers snickered two years ago when Democratic Senator Carolyn Walker introduced a bill making it a crime for a husband to rape his wife. "Oh, you can't rape your wife anymore, ha, ha, ha," she remembers hearing. "You're damn right you can't," she shot back. Walker says she isn't hearing...
Buereaucrats Fiddle With The Roof

Who in the world would redo the roof before they've rearranged the walls? City Hall, that's who.

By Jana Bommersbach
Jan 24, 1990

If you knew Tom Oldendick of Phoenix Little Theatre--a flamboyant type who performs a story rather than tells it--you'd be laughing so hard you'd forget for a moment that the three-act comedy he's replaying almost cost you, the Phoenix taxpayer, a cool half million. He doesn't spring his story as...

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