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House Hold

The dearth of affordable housing has reached the crisis stage

By Jeremy Voas
May 24, 2001

Nothing in Jeff Taylor's bearing suggests he was once a drug addict. He is well-dressed and well-spoken. He has the sinewy body of a state champion mountain bike racer, which he is. Seven years ago, however, his bedroom was a shrub. "It was a pretty nice bush," he says. "I...
Stir Crazy

State helps prison parolees fall through the crack

By Jeremy Voas
May 10, 2001

A van pulls up outside the homeless shelter in downtown Phoenix and disgorges its occupants. They are clad in the jumpsuits of the Arizona Department of Corrections. The tags on their breasts bearing their identifications have been blacked out. One carries a TV he purchased while in prison. You can't...
Growing Smarmier

It's not David vs. Goliath; it's Cindy vs. Del Webb

By Jeremy Voas
May 3, 2001

The street sign on the corner where Cindy Foster lives is handcrafted. It's not crude, but it's definitely not government-issue. To get to her place, turn north off Lone Mountain Road onto 66th Street, which in this area northeast of Phoenix is an undulating gravel lane that winds through desert...
The Spy Who Came Out of the Closet

Gay activist spent 1,000 often harrowing hours aboard 'spy plane' at center of U.S.-China crisis

By Jeremy Voas
Apr 12, 2001

Jeff Ofstedahl has followed the Sino-American "spy plane" crisis with fascination, anxiety and a tinge of nostalgia. The Phoenix man spent more than 1,000 hours on the very plane -- a star-crossed EP-3 -- that Chinese intelligence specialists scrutinize today on the island of Hainan.Ofstedahl, 37, is best known as...
Glad-Hander No More

Hot-headed PR flack cools off in a jail cell, again

By Jeremy Voas
Apr 5, 2001

On a good day, David Hans Schmidt is a name-dropper, glad-hander and hobnobber extraordinaire. But this is not a good day. He sits in a visitation room at Maricopa County's Towers Jail. He is wearing the striped uniform of an inmate, and he is choked up, weeping. It's a pathetic...

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