The state DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY's Family Assistance Administration sent this sensitive letter to a dead Tucson woman: "Your assistance will be stopped . . . because of your untimely death. My sympathy to your family. This action is based on AFDC Manual: DES 15-1-303.03." Couldn't DES have phrased this a little differently? Tucson staffer SHARON POLLARD, who wrote the letter, says, "Yeah, it's odd. But it's not a form letter. That's just the way we had to do it." Hope DES doesn't penalize the Tucson woman for not replying. . . .
One crime that DAVE FOREMAN and three other members of EARTH FIRST! aren't accused of is last year's Saint Patrick's Day prank that turned 241,000 gallons of reactor water green in Unit 2 at the PALO VERDE nuke plant. Plant mouthpiece DON ANDREWS tells us the March '88 unsolved mystery was "obviously" an inside job. "We never did apprehend a suspect in the case," he says. Isn't it reassuring that someone with a sense of humor can fiddle around with the innards of the nation's biggest nuclear-power plant? But, hey, it's no big deal. The reactor was shut down then, too. . . .
While the ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS is in court defending its secret job search that resulted in a "short list" of one candidate for ASU prexy, LATTIE COOR, some ASU administrators point out the regents' hypocrisy. They wonder how the bigwigs can ignore their own compulsory affirmative-action rules, which provide that every application for every ASU job, down to the gardener's, is a matter of public record that can be viewed by anyone interested. The guidelines also require explanations of why one person got the job over another. That's just what everyone would like to know about Coor.
