Lee Shappell
Editor at The Tempe Tribune
Editor/Tempe Tribune. … Founder/The Paragraph Factory, a boutique PR firm. … I like nice people and Shih Tzus. Everybody else can go to hell!
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1 week ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
Carl Streiff looked out across what used to be the fourth fairway at Shalimar Golf Club. “You know, these houses, particularly on Cairo and Country Club Way, they’ll become nothing special,” said Streiff, president of Save Shalimar. “It’ll be like, ‘I can get this anywhere. I could get more amenities somewhere else.’” The fairways, once green spaces just beyond residents’ backyards, are now brown with patches of raw dirt. Large, mature trees appear to be stressed.
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2 weeks ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
With the Valley on edge over a wave of recent immigration raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the anxiety hit close to home in Tempe early June 11 when about three-dozen law-enforcement agents staged in the parking lot at Danelle Plaza, on the southwestern corner of Mill and Southern avenues.
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2 weeks ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
Juneteenth marks the historic day – June 19, 1865 – when enslaved Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally heard they were freed, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. That was 27 years before Tempe would be incorporated. Turn the clock forward about 160 years as Tempe prepares for its annual Juneteenth celebrations.
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2 weeks ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
An overflow crowd of emotionally charged partisans booed and hooted at a zoning attorney June 4 as she explained how a developer she represents has revised its plan four times to reduce density of a housing community proposed for the now-closed Shalimar Golf Club. Manjula Vas was confronted by the angry crowd of over 500 people, many of whom were forced to stand around the perimeter of the sanctuary at Church of the Epiphany in Tempe, a facility with a capacity listed at 522 by the fire code.
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2 weeks ago |
tempenews.com | Lee Shappell
After a meet and confer ordered by U.S. District Court on June 6, City of Tempe officials agreed not to require its special-events permit for meals for the homeless in city parks. The agreement was made in exchange for Ron Tapscott, Austin Davis and Jane Parker, who conducted charitable food-sharing activities without a permit, dropping a request for a preliminary injunction against the city.
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