Feature Story Phoenix Magazine

The Mormon Church renounced poly-gamy more than I00 years ago, but in Northern Arizona, a fundamentalist sect of “believers” is still playing by the old rules – men are taking two or three “wives,” fathering dozens of children and collecting millions in welfare. It’s been going on for decades, without [...]

Some say his plan is good, some say it’s bad, but everyone agrees that ASU’s ambitious president is taking America’s fifth largest university in a whole new direction. Time will tell if he’s on target. […]

There was a time when Steve Benson, editorial cartoonist for “The Arizona Republic” and grandson of a Mormon prophet, railed against gays and women’s rights. But then he changed his tune, and now the Pulitzer Prize winner, who’s syndicated in more than 100 U.S. newspapers, is attacking the president, the [...]

For nearly three decades, Howard Mechanic eluded the FBI – he was on the lam. Eventually though, his past caught up with him and he went to prison, where he expected to grow old. But that didn’t happen. Instead, he got a pardon from President Clinton, and today he’s living [...]

When Salvatore Gravano ratted-out his fellow mobsters and moved to Phoenix – courtesy of the Witness Protection Program – he was given a second chance. He didn’t take it. Instead, he started one of the biggest drug rings in the country and got busted. Not by the FBI, which was [...]