Michael Richard Logan was sentenced March 27 to three years’ probation–including alcohol and anger counseling–for assaulting Kimberly Boyden. Logan and Boyden met in the early afternoon of August 12, 1996, at a Scottsdale bar. They had both had rotten days. The two chatted and drank together, Boyden accompanied Logan to…
March has gotten off to a lousy start for Maricopa County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling. The attorney general is investigating her office. Her school district expects a half-million-dollar budget shortfall next year. And now a disgruntled county schools employee says she will file paperwork this week to launch a recall…
County schools chief Sandra Dowling once called herself the governor of Maricopa County–after all, she was elected by all the people of the county, rather than county supervisors, who were voted into office by a mere district’s worth. The title “governor” may be stretching it a bit, but Dowling does…
For five days this month, Kimberly Boyden and Michael Logan sat in a courtroom where the most personal, embarrassing details of their lives were spread before a roomful of strangers. Logan has difficulty getting an erection. Boyden once had breast implants. Logan drinks in the morning. Boyden keeps condoms in…
Senator John McCain likes to play on the national stage; that’s why many of his constituents were startled January 30 to find him taking off after a local entertainment event. An upcoming match in a blood sport called cage fighting, he declared in a letter to his pal Maricopa County…
Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Sandra Dowling used county staff to help research and write papers for her master’s degree and to work on her reelection campaign on county time, according to depositions taken earlier this year in a criminal case in which Dowling’s involved. The sworn interviews, which are…
The old Democrat answers the phone at state party headquarters. He takes a message for party chairman Mark Fleischer. Ask Fleischer, says the caller, what is the future of the Arizona Democratic party? The old man chuckles. “Sorry, I just had to laugh at the question,” he says, adding an…
Samaritan will be the pre-eminent nonprofit healthcare system in the Southwest. –from Samaritan Health System’s Mission Statement The right to be free from misappropriation of funds, and from medical, psychological or physical abuse. –Number 14, Good Samaritan Care Center Residents’ Rights Jafet Coronado worked as a certified nursing assistant at…
In his first State of the State address in 1992, Governor J. Fife Symington III–as new chief executives are wont to do–anointed himself the Education Governor, the Environment Governor, the Children’s Governor. The three-cornered prospectus promised an optimistically vast range of areas he would improve. Last month as Symington exited…
Editor’s note: In 1994, New Times printed Volume I of “The Best of Fife.” The New and Improved Volume II incorporates the best of Volume I while adding all of Fife’s greatest accomplishments since. And it’s fat-free. The Early Years Best Pedigree: J. Fife Symington III What can we say?…
The governing board of the Maricopa County Regional School District convenes monthly. A quorum call is never necessary. And no one ever takes attendance. The Maricopa County Regional School District Governing Board has only one member: Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Sandra Dowling. The Maricopa County Regional School District is…
Brian Dickerson and Lyle Miller own a dog. The two men moved in together four years ago, and the Dalmatian puppy was a birthday gift from Dickerson to Miller to anchor their new family. They named her Sarafina. The three share a small apartment in central Phoenix, where Sarafina has…
In the summer of 1993, Motorola’s Scottsdale-based Government Systems Technology Group treated its employees to an in-house video. Along with campy old Motorola commercials and marketplace updates, the reel profiled Doris Gray, an African-American senior contracts manager. Gray, Motorolans learned, is an art collector, philanthropist and businesswoman with a “dizzying…
Journalist Michael Lewis may be the supreme cynic in an age of press cynicism. His aloofness for political hoopla set the tone of his coverage of the 1996 presidential race in the New Republic. He waxed diffident about candidate Lamar Alexander’s nervous tics, Bob Dole’s vanity and his fellow journalists’…
In a 180-degree turnaround, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has decided to prosecute a man who allegedly raped, beat and choked Kim Boyden in her Scottsdale home last August. And not just in city court, as Boyden was once told. Mike Logan will be tried in Maricopa County Superior Court;…
Many states around the country have launched antitobacco campaigns, but none has captured the imagination–or turned the stomachs–of television and radio audiences like the one sponsored by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Who could forget these great moments in antismoking propaganda: A Dr. Frankenstein-type sniffing the lungs of a…
Early in February 1988, House Majority Whip Jane Hull paid an unofficial visit to the office of Secretary of State Rose Mofford to warn her that, given the anti-Mecham mood in the Legislature, Mofford was about to become acting governor. Hull was right. On February 5, the Arizona House of…
Logan struck up a conversation with Kim Boyden, over her Stoli on the rocks and his Black Russian. The two had a lot in common. They’d both grown up in Michigan. They’d both had a rotten morning. And, that day, August 12, 1996, both had stopped at Eli’s Bar and…
Oscar Fuchslocher is still behind bars at a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Florence, but a federal court decision means he should be reunited with his wife in Phoenix as early as this week, according to Fuchslocher’s lawyer, Patsy Kraeger. Fuchslocher is a Chilean citizen who has…
The cornflower-blue, kid-leather Donna Karan handbag dangles from her fingers. “I don’t want it. I don’t need it. I don’t even particularly like it,” she says. “But it’s Donna Karan–not just DKNY, but Donna Karan–and it’s perfect.” She turns to her girlfriend–who stands mutely, draped in four designer scarves and…
Things have gotten downright catty in June Thomson’s old neighborhood. The former KSAZ-TV, Channel 10, news anchor left her home in the Encanto neighborhood late last year to become a morning anchor at KGO, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco. She took her husband (former game-show host David Sparks) and…
For the last decade of the 116-year life of the Phoenix Gazette, staff–and, perhaps, readers–devoted far more time to conjecture on the newspaper’s impending death than to discussion of its contents. On Monday, January 13, around 9 a.m., Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., CEO and Publisher John Oppedahl announced the mercy killing:…
