![]() “There’s always that thought of cowboys and Indians fighting each other,” he reflected. Kiss of JudasĪk-Chin Chairman Robert Miguel was in the eye of the hurricane that morning, but he grinned and made merry with city dignitaries over breakfast in a sunlit Maricopa conference room.Īn aerial view of the intersection of the Sonoran Desert Parkway and N John Wayne Pkwy on October 11th, 2023. To the public’s beckoning ear, they’ll chant “the best of times.”īut a months-long scour of public records and conversations with city leaders show that, for the accord between these two thrones, it’s the worst of times indeed. A decade-long commitment washed away like the house of cards, like those hands dealt on felted tables just across the street, where the highway was meant to unfurl like a red carpet to the door of Harrah’s Ak-Chin Casino.Įvery screech of the brakes in that sea of stop signs and traffic cones serves as a reminder of this tale of two cities, where a Berlinesque wall of neon blockades does more than divide land. Much like the intersection itself - where Ak-Chin police nearly staged a mass arrest of oblivious municipal workers - the road to riches took a sharp turn.
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