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Creative Movement

Historic preservation effort displaces charter arts school

By John W. Allman
May 30, 2002

The Metropolitan Arts Institute, downtown Phoenix's well-regarded charter arts school, will be moving to new digs in the middle of the school year. The school is being forced out as part of the city and landlord Jim Kaufman's plans to preserve historic buildings at the former Phoenix Union High School...
Whatever Happened to Eva Mae?

Neighbors fret over the fate of an elderly recluse who left without saying goodbye.

By John W. Allman
May 16, 2002

Eva Mae Wilson might as well have been a ghost. She didn't speak to strangers. She never opened her front door to company. She guarded her personal life as if it were a precious treasure someone might want to steal. For most of her life, she cultivated anonymity like the...
License to Quill

Tinkerbell's death prompts a federal inquiry at the Phoenix Zoo

By John W. Allman
May 2, 2002

The United States Department of Agriculture is investigating the Phoenix Zoo following the death of Tinkerbell, an 8-year-old female porcupine used by the zoo in educational programs. The federal investigation -- the second of the Phoenix facility in recent years -- could result in substantial fines and, if serious violations...
Capitol Cop-Out

The Capitol Police is one of the state's smallest law enforcement agencies, and some say one of its worst

By John W. Allman
Apr 25, 2002

For years, Capitol Police officers have arrested people without cause and harassed the homeless. They target those who hang out along the sidewalks and parking lots near state government office buildings just west of downtown Phoenix. They are lax in turning in booking information, leaving people to sit in jail...
Creature Discomfort

A rising body count sends the Phoenix Zoo scrambling to protect its reputation

By John W. Allman
Mar 28, 2002

An iguana living on the Phoenix Zoo's Arizona Trail recently was maimed after animal handlers inadvertently left a heating pad in the reptile's cage, causing second- and third-degree burns over most of its lower body. The iguana, nicknamed Stumpy, was so badly burned that its tail had to be amputated...

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