Subject: Michael Stafford (Executive)

• Bar Tabs

  The D.A. and county attorney dip into office funds to up the influence in judicial polls

  October 25, 2001

• Coming Up Empty

  This six-year battle for a strip club reads like a Monty Python joke — complete with dead parrots

  May 3, 2007

• Paying the Price

  Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

  October 11, 2001

• The Day the Democrats Died

  Learning to love the one-party state

  March 23, 2000

• Dubious Deal

  Special tax zones are already stimulating growth-a thriving cottage industry of attorneys, lobbyists, high paid consultants, developers and questionable financial projections

  August 5, 1999