Picture the setup for a girl-on-girl tryst in a porn nugget titled Hot Seats released last summer on VCA video: Horny babes on mountain bikes traversing the hills outside of Los Angeles, clad in tight bike shorts, nipple-enhancing jerseys and enough makeup to challenge any Spice Girl. Two of them…
All week long, people had been telling me upbeat things about Globe. What a small, welcoming and crimeless community it is–congenial to families, kids, retirees and everyone in between. How cool the summer air is in the evenings. How close it is to other worlds. The San Carlos Apache Reservation,…
Last week, state treasurer Tony West got caught in the Web when the dailies reported he was pimping his corporation commission campaign on his state-sponsored treasurer’s office Internet site. The offending statement–“Treasurer West is running for election to the Corporation Commission this year. Click here to visit his campaign web…
The nurse who examined a 16-year-old boy in the weeks before he died at the Arizona Boys Ranch says she is not responsible for the teen’s death since he showed no signs of an infection. In her first interview since the boy died on March 2, the nurse, Linda Babb,…
America’s Worst While waiting for a recent America West flight to be delayed and then canceled, the Flash pondered the Arizona Republic’s coverage of the airline’s woes. At the risk of inciting America West chairman Bill Franke (who also sits on the board of Central Newspapers Incorporated, the Republic’s parent,…
Jail Berate I have recently learned about the terrible conditions at Maricopa County jails. A very good friend of my family died recently because of the treatment he received at Tent City. Our friend had been suffering from liver problems for many years, which, unfortunately, had been brought on by…
We arrange to meet in a restaurant. I ask how I will recognize her. “Do you know who Suzanne Somers is?” she asks me. I say I do. “Well, I look exactly like her.” She’s not kidding. I arrive at the restaurant and find her waiting near the door, all…
The area adjacent to the retail center should eventually be cleared for market rate housing. Downtown lacks any significant market rate housing. This is too valuable and important land and should be dedicated to high density, market rate residential. No Downtown in the United States, no matter how small, has…
Michael Kerski moved from Hartford, Connecticut, to Arizona in November 1996 to revitalize downtown Chandler–and a career rocked by scandal. Last August, the Connecticut attorney general sued Kerski, claiming that as executive director of the Greater Hartford Architectural Conservancy, Kerski used the conservancy’s funds to “personally enrich” himself. The suit…
The rapid proliferation of Arizona’s charter schools hasn’t won over many traditional public-school advocates, liberal politicians or teachers’ unions. But the conservative camp’s pet project has won converts in an unlikely arena. The state’s Indian reservations. Arizona’s charter-school law has allowed tribes to rake in extra cash for what they…
BOMEX Delivers The glare of the spotlight makes a huge difference. The Arizona Board of Medical Examiners (BOMEX), watched by every TV camera in town, punched the ticket of Dr. John Biskind at an emergency hearing on Monday. The board, usually reluctant to do more than slap a doc on…
I come from Scotland, a country where no one has guns. The cops don’t have them. Most criminals don’t have them. And the cops don’t want them. If cops had guns, then the few criminals who are armed would have a reason to shoot at the cops, fearing that otherwise…
Peso Meager Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your article “Bordering on Exploitation” (John Dougherty and David Holthouse, July 9). You keep getting better all the time. Theresa Mac Nevins Scottsdale “Bordering on Exploitation” was a great article! I loved it. Couldn’t put it down. It’s the first time…
Retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, Sr. is a godfather of the Vietnam War POW/MIA activist movement in America. The Glendale resident has served both as executive director and chairman of the board of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, the country’s largest, best-known…
Info:Correction Date: 08/27/1998 Info: Trainspotting Nearly three years after Amtrak’s Sunset Limited was sabotaged near Buckeye, firefighters who rode to the rescue remain on the FBI’s list of suspects By Michael Kiefer An hour and a half past midnight on October 9, 1995, when four cars of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited…
State medical officials are the latest to investigate the death of a teenage boy at the Arizona Boys Ranch. They’re looking into the conduct of the nurse and doctor who examined 16-year-old Nicholaus Contreraz before he died of a massive infection. Their inquiries come as a California report rips the…
For years, Phoenix firefighters have been contracting tuberculosis at an unusually rapid rate. Since 1992, about 250 city firefighters–roughly 20 percent of the force–have tested positive for TB. Or have they? Now, fire officials are wondering if those swelling skin tests might really be an indicator of something else: bird…
What Hoots-puh Phoenix Fire Department whistle-blowers thought they’d seen the last of their prankster boss, former deputy chief Robert “Hoot” Gibson. Gibson retired in 1996 after a high-profile inquiry into allegations that he’d paid some recruits unearned overtime and allowed his relatives to sell tee shirts at a fire department…
According to the law, a person charged with a crime is presumed innocent until he’s proved guilty in court. But, in Maricopa County, the presumption of innocence won’t protect you from rotting in jail for months. Only money will protect you from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Because the law doesn’t apply…
Maquila Horror Congratulations to John Dougherty and David Holthouse for their award-level reporting from the world of the Mexican maquiladoras (“Bordering on Exploitation,” July 9). Yes, I find it morally abhorrent that Mexico, the United States and the emerging culture of boundless corporate profiteering have expanded the trappings of the…
Nogales, Sonora Virginia’s a bad girl, and she’s good at it. Eighteen years old, with a nightclub walk that purrs. Long, auburn hair. Tall and sleek, with cinnamon-sprinkled skin. She could be a model if she weren’t a factory worker. It’s Friday night. Party time. Virginia clocked out two hours…
The Mexican-American border is a virtual cesspool and breeding ground for infectious disease. –Council on Scientific Affairs of the American Medical Association, 1990 Nature respects geographic boundaries, not political ones. Nogales Wash originates about 8.6 kilometers south of the Mexican-American border, fed by natural springs. The perennial wash travels north,…
