Conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen has released his latest poll on the Arizona governor’s race and Democratic candidate Terry Goddard has gained a little (very little) ground.Rasmussen loves two things: push polls and seeing his name in the paper, so we take his polls with a healthy serving of salt.That said,…
U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn’t go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university’s newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial with the headline “AZ…
There’s a good way to get a reputation in the National Football League for being a prima donna crybaby: piss and moan about team business to the media.With Anquan Boldin gone, the Arizona Cardinals are without the token team crybaby. Enter running back Beanie Wells.Rather than commiserate Sunday’s loss to…
My Fox Phoenix aired a story last night that needs some attention. If you’ve never asked the question “why do they put superglue and eye drops in nearly identical bottles?” you should have — it’s stupid, and can have painful results if a mix up happens. People who use eye…
We’re beginning to wonder if anyone driving in Mesa on Saturday night wasn’t fucked up in one way or another.An unidentified man, who police say may have been drunk, was hit by not one, but two impaired drivers as he rode his bike in the 1600 block of South Higley…
Phoenix isn’t the kidnapping capital of the United States for nothing. We get that wrap because…well…a lot of kidnappings happen in the Valley — as pointed out in the New Times feature “Seized.” Check it out here.A Phoenix teen is the latest victim of this city’s less-than-esteemed reputation.Last Wednesday, Karla…
A few weeks ago, we had a chance to ask Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd if he was actually a Republic trying to pass himself off as a Democrat. He insisted he was in fact a Democrat residing under the Democratic Party’s “very big tent.”We weren’t entirely convinced and our…
Last week, Mesa Police Detective Steve Berry told us the man shot by police after threatening them with a machete was expected to survive.That didn’t happen.We got word yesterday that after undergoing surgery, 35-year-old Cole Ravel died.Ravel was shot by police Thursday afternoon after he lunged at an officer while…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell at beating Senator John McCain in this year’s general election. That isn’t stopping the McCain campaign from kicking poor Rodney while he’s down, though, and its latest jab comes in the form of a new Web ad explaining…
Just when we thought the Arizona Diamondbacks and Jan Brewer were the most embarrassing things about living in Arizona, the Arizona Cardinals went ahead and played a game of football with the San Diego Chargers yesterday.The Cards got crushed.The 41-10 loss was testament to everything the Cards have been doing…
The rumor mill is churning and pumped out the following information yesterday: Kirk Gibson will be named the permanent manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.According to multiple reports, the announcement that Gibson got the job could come as early as today.”I’m going to be held accountable for philosophies, the hitting approach,…
The Arizona Cardinals find themselves with an unlikely record of 2-1, thanks to some incredible luck and Oakland Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski sucking big time last week.Janikowski missed what would have been a game-winning field goal (one of three kicks he missed that day), which allowed the Cards to claim…
The same day Ben Quayle’s Democratic opponent in the District Three Congressional race, Jon Hulburd, rolled out his latest Dirty.com-centered attack ad, Quayle’s released an ad of his own.It’s not likely to make as much noise in the blogosphere as his last corny ad, where he called Barack Obama “the…
There’s a little-known shortcut to get from downtown Phoenix to Tempe during rush hour. Some of those in the know call it cheating. We tell those people to pipe down because it’s our preferred way home from work. The shortcut goes directly through Sky Harbor International Airport and allows you…
If you’re feelin’ a little blah, and thinking of ending it all, there are a lot of ways to do it. We don’t recommend any of them. We also don’t recommend threatening cops with an enormous machete after they’ve been called to help you.That’s what a Mesa man did yesterday…
A 90-year-old Phoenix man took a drive on Monday and never came home. Now, the Phoenix Police Department wants the public’s help in finding him.Clarence Merkel was last seen around noon on Monday leaving East Grovers Avenue and North Cave Creek Road in Phoenix.He said he was going to see…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd continues to beat the Dirty drum in his campaign’s first TV ad.News of Hulburd’s opponent Ben Quayle’s ties to the sleazy Web site “The Dirty” was revealed nearly two months ago and Hulburd has made it the focal point of his campaign — probably better than…
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that — aside from the guy being naked — is he was an inmate at the jail who’d just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question “Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?” Perhaps the questions should have been “how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticing?”Allow us to explain:This morning, around 7:30, a…
One of the City of Phoenix’s countless homeless men apparently doesn’t have enough money for a house — but he had enough money to buy gasoline so he could set one on fire.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 62-year-old Frutoso Gallegos went to a gas station in the…
Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey might just get his morbid wish.After McCluskey and his cousin/would-be-wife, Casslyn Welch, were arrested last month, McCluskey tried to kill himself in prison. Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says the the two — as well as another escapee, Tracy Province — have been indicted for…
The shooting of Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll has inspired some interesting satire. Yesterday, we showed you a strange-but-entertaining video that’s making the rounds on Youtube. Today, the Arizona Republic is mocking the incident with a cartoon Sheriff Paul Babeu probably isn’t liking..The cartoon is titled “Babeu Shoots Himself,”…
