Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano’s office is covering up information documenting extensive and ongoing criminal activity including rape, incest, assault, kidnapping, forced marriages of underage girls, weapons violations and welfare fraud that is rampant in the remote polygamous community of Colorado City, state records obtained by New Times reveal. Napolitano’s…
Candy Gail Wilson knows how to work the street. The prominent Scottsdale businesswoman long ago mastered the art of manipulating emotions to obtain cash. She has no problem stiffing business partners. Her associates embrace similar ethics. And when the heat is on, she knows how to slip into the night…
It could be the perfect location for the Arizona Cardinals football stadium. There’s plenty of parking already built. Most of the site is publicly owned. It’s close to planned light-rail stations, has excellent freeway access and has no airport issues. There are no residential neighborhoods to disturb, and most of…
WHITERIVER — The Rodeo-Chediski fire has inflicted a blow upon the White Mountain Apache more powerful than death itself. The well-documented losses of homes and businesses suffered by the off-reservation communities strung across the edge of the Mogollon rim has been terrible. But the impact to the White Mountain Apache…
Richard Mallery is a master of the art of the deal. A Fullbright Scholar and Stanford Law graduate, Mallery is entranced with the power of words and the allure of drama. “I’m a fuzzy who deals in metaphors,” Mallery says, employing a term used at Stanford to describe liberal arts…
Phoenix aviation department officials are considering canceling an $800,000-a-year contract for a security services company owned by Phoenix city councilman Michael Johnson because the company has failed to perform its duties. Aviation director David Krietor says a decision will be made in the next week or so whether to seek…
David Therrien had a simple proposal for real estate developer Dixon “Duke” Cowley. In July 2000, Therrien says he approached Cowley seeking to lease an abandoned lumber yard that Cowley had purchased in June 2000 for $1.2 million. Therrien says he wanted to negotiate a one-month lease for the 7.8-acre…
The Spike has tried for years to get Phoenix Coyotes owner Steve Ellman to return phone calls about his wily financial maneuvers that led to the needless destruction of the Los Arcos Mall in Scottsdale. Not to mention his subsequent hoodwinking of Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs to drain the city’s…
Department of Public Safety Sergeant Rudy Buck is truly an army of one. Buck has the impossible assignment of making sure the thousands of private security guards working in the state are properly trained and licensed. And that makes Arizona residents some of the nation’s most vulnerable people when it…
Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson’s private security business is under state investigation for sending unlicensed security guards to Sky Harbor Airport and two community airports also operated by the city, New Times has learned. The company, NKOSI Incorporated, has a $600,000-a-year contract to provide security guards at Sky Harbor, Goodyear…
At 1:35a.m. on a hot July night last summer, an undercover state liquor agent shelled out $7 to a doorman named Willie to gain access through the back door of one of the oldest speakeasies in the city. Although the bar at the William H. Patterson Elks Lodge at 1007…
The possibility of locating a third major sports venue in downtown Phoenix is triggering opposition from a loose coalition of artists, historic preservation advocates, neighborhood leaders and urban designers. “I’m very negative on the idea of the stadium anywhere downtown,” says former Phoenix mayor Terry Goddard. Goddard, who is still…
It’s Super Bowl weekend, and, as usual, the Arizona Cardinals are nowhere near the playing field. Despite the absence of their team, Cardinals owners Bill and Michael Bidwill will enjoy the game nonetheless, most likely from a well-appointed luxury suite inside New Orleans’ Superdome. It doesn’t really matter who plays…
State lawmakers are completely ignoring a powerful tool that can be used to deal with a massive $675 million state budget shortfall in fiscal 2002 and a projected $850 million deficit in fiscal 2003. Tax increases. Raising revenue to help cover the shortfall in the state’s budget is an option…
© 2001 New Times November 16, 2001 7:35 p.m. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is poised to give Jerry Colangelo a $6 million gift on Monday. The supervisors plan to pierce the $238 million cap on taxpayer contributions to build Bank One Ballpark by advancing $6 million to Colangelo’s…
The Arizona Diamondbacks weren’t the only team to take full advantage of their first World Series appearance. The five-member Maricopa County Board of Supervisors also had a field day.Longtime Diamondback supporter Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox flew to New York City on the Diamondbacks’ chartered jet to enjoy the World Series…
A resounding thunderclap, a brief shower and a swirl of dust usher in the final moments of an epic World Series that will set the high-water mark for decades to come.Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Luis Gonzalez digs in at the plate. New York Yankees über reliever Mariano Rivera, who has never…
The Valley of the Sun United Way was looking forward to a big fund-raising windfall last weekend by auctioning its luxury suite at Bank One Ballpark for the first two games of the World Series.”We had some major contributors that we thought would come up with a significant auction price…
It happened in Seattle. And it happened in Houston. But it didn’t happen in Phoenix. The eagerly anticipated Randy Johnson Effect never materialized at Bank One Ballpark. Yes, Johnson racked up the third most strikeouts in single-season history this year en route to winning 21 games in the regular season…
Salt River Project and its subsidiary Papago Park Center each contributed $5,000 to the Arizona Cardinals’ successful Proposition 302 campaign fund less than two weeks before last November’s election, Maricopa County election records reveal.The contributions appear to have had a powerful impact. Soon after the election, the City of Tempe…
In a sleight of hand that would make Cardinals quarterback Jake Plummer proud, the Tourism and Sports Authority says if necessary it can tap all of the hotel and car rental taxes it collects to pay for stadium construction bonds before any funds flow to tourism, Cactus League and youth…
Updated October 5, 2001 Washington, D.C. — Florence Mahoney is a testament to the National Institute on Aging, an agency she helped create three decades ago.At 102 years old, Mahoney continues to receive America’s leading scientists, politicians and thinkers to her Georgetown home to discuss the important events of the…
