Mesa, Arizona: “City Above the Law”

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Mesa, Arizona: “City Above the Law” (Part 1)

Ruthless, vengeance, cunning, abuse of power, lawlessness

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Mesa, Arizona: “City Above the Law” (Part 2)

A state-wide network of long entrenched political corruption

7 min read

Grim Reputation: Where Will It Stop?

Mesa, Arizona: the grim reputation it so richly deserves.

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Shopper’s World: How Mesa Put 300 Small Businesses Out of Business

How the city of Mesa put 300 small businesses out of business

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Zoning Law Privileged: How Did They Get Away With It?

More giveaways to Brown & Brown Mayor Wayne Brown’s brother of Brown & Brown Chevrolet in downtown Mesa, got a big chunk of land across from their exi...

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Civil & Human Rights Violations: Immigrant Workers

Millionaire families and various businesses from around Arizona mistreat Immigrant workers .. Violating their civil & Human Rights.

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EMS Has Flawed Call System; Several Accident Victims Die in Arizona Cities

Updated 3/24/00 Editor's Note: This is the story of the mountain view high school student hit by the car just outside the school. Because of the rotat...

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“Michael T. Hutchinson Must Go!”

Michael T. Hutchinson does not qualify for the position of Mesa City Manager or the position of Mesa Assistant City Manager...Say City staffers in var...

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Threatened Hotdog Business

Injustice, city laws not written well or not well defined? unequal, inconsistent enforcement of the law

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Police Cover-Up

"police cover-up" ..a city of Chandler Arizona employee reports

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C.A.P.S.: An Initiative Measure to Stop the Corruption

An initiative measure to amend the Mesa City Charter: a directly elected city manager, and obedience to the Constitution for every candidate, officeho...

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Top Ten Reasons to Not Vote for This Man

The only thing standing in our way is the Constitution - Dennis Kavanaugh 10. Dennis supported the multimillion-dollar give-away to Brown & Brown. 9....

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Heard on the Wide Streets

A column by Eldon Bishop: what people in Mesa are saying about the widening, the deals and the people behind them.

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Letters from readers

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The Roundup Theft

In 1985 -86 two City of Mesa employees were caught in regards to the stealing of thousands of dollars worth of the weed killer "Roundup." They were selling it and pocketing the money. Roundup is very expensive and sells...

Tribune Article on www.MesaAZcorruptionReport.com

I read with interest the article in the tribune about web sites to "complain" about the city of Mesa, "Kavanaugh said the web offers both anonymity and freedom of expression." He goes on to say "I challenge those people...

Asst. Chief Ballentyne

I am rather amazed that you don't list the lack of action by Asst. Chief Del Ballentyne in regards to the Elegit sex scandal at the Mesa Police Dept. Ballentyne simply did nothing when told about the activities of the El...

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