Marguerite Kay is far from being the only university or state employee to claim reprisals for whistleblowing. The following are synopses of a few cases from around the state. The narratives were assembled using court documents and rulings, as well as testimony and rulings from university hearing panels. Comments from…
Marguerite Kay made headlines around the world in 1996 with her discovery that Vitamin E could help stave off the crippling effects of Alzheimer’s. But during her research at the University of Arizona, the world-renowned scientist also discovered what she believes was a case of the university overcharging on grants…
State Department of Environmental Quality director Jacqueline Schafer is apparently refusing to pursue legal action against a Yuma manufacturing plant that her staff says should be slapped with more than $2 million in fines. But that may not be surprising, considering that the owner of the plant is a major…
Vince Sanders sits on the edge of a bow-bottomed couch in his river-rattish bungalow, hunched over the only new thing here — a shiny Realistic microrecorder. He fast forwards, stops, plays and then pushes fast forward again.”Ah, now come on, Tony. I know your juicy words are in there.” He’s…
Pencil in Tuesday on your calendar. That’s the day Phoenix dies.The day will begin with a little meeting of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. By noon, news of Alan Greenspan’s radical inflation-busting rate hike will have filtered into the cars of all the hopeful young couples driving from…
Boys Don’t Cry hasn’t garnered the kind of box-office returns you’d expect from an Oscar winner. That’s understandable. No matter its brilliance, the film’s pallor of rural white trash dysfunction was probably too unsettling for that cash-cow megaplex demographic. After all, it was, as the Sunday Herald in Scotland recently…
John Bailey’s tale involves paperwork, bureaucrats, attorneys, clerks, Latin, gratuitous use of the word “pursuant,” a seven-month Kafkaesque man vs. machina existential run-around and myriad references to statutes 13-4304 through 13-4311 subsection M of the Arizona criminal code. Sorry. But it must be so. For this is a story about…
