Hot Links: DPS Says N. Ariz. Snowstorm Worst in Its History; Feds Building "Virtual Fence;" Buckeye Council Politics Turn Ugly

Snow party: The state Department of Public Safety calls yesterday's snowstorm in northern Arizona the worst it has ever faced. The feds are building 53 miles of "virtual fence" along the border with Mexico that virtually works. Phoenix is No. 1! (In hotel vacancies -- not good). Peoria police are...

By Ray Stern

February 10, 2009

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Snow party: The state Department of Public Safety calls yesterday's snowstorm in northern Arizona the worst it has ever faced. The feds are building 53 miles of "virtual fence" along the border with Mexico that virtually works. Phoenix is No. 1! (In hotel vacancies -- not good). Peoria police are seeking a man suspected of stabbing two women. Buckeye town politics heats up. Not being able to re-enact a war is hell.

Northern Arizona snowstorm "worst" in DPS history

Feds building "virtual fence" on border

Hotel occupancy falling fastest in Phoenix

Buckeye councilman accused of intimidation

Peoria police seek suspect who stabbed two women

Picacho Peak Civil War re-enactment canceled

Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He's won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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