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JOHN COX (D) District 1 (Southeastern Phoenix--Tempe; Mesa...
...PHOENIX: Still smarting after Democratic setbacks in the 1994 mid-term elections, union leaders unleashed a massive war chest to avoid a repeat in 1996. For the past year, the AFL-CIO has waged a $35 million campaign against vulnerable GOP freshmen and the Republican positions on Medicare, education and the minimum wage. At the top of the union's target list is Arizona's 6th District, which stretches from the Phoenix suburbs north to the Utah border. Representative J.D. Hayworth, a former college football player and sportscaster, is locked in a tight race with Steve Owens, a former aide...
Then, too, a number of alternative weeklies are stepping in where older papers, sensitive to charges of negativity, have let their role as community watchdog slide. New Times Publications, for instance, claims some 700,000 readers of its seven increasingly successful papers in Phoenix, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. New Times's Westword kept dogged watch over the start-up problems at the Denver International Airport last year, while the dailies, the Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News, were less critical. And the Phoenix New Times beat that city's dailies on the corruption scandals...
Oktoberfest is jointly sponsored by HSBA, the USTA Visa Card, The Boston Phoenix, Audi and 100.7 WZLX...
RELEASED. BARRY GOLDWATER, 87, conservative icon and former Arizona Senator; from a Phoenix hospital following treatment for a minor stroke...