Rodney Glassman, the baby-faced former vice mayor of Tucson, officially entered the 2010 Senate race yesterday, after months of speculation that he would run. Glassman resigned his post as vice mayor yesterday to run because of Arizona’s resign-to-run law, and based on statements the new candidate is releasing to the media,…
A bill to force people who want to get divorced to stay married longer — in the hope that they would reconsider — was shot down in the Arizona House of Representatives today.Score one for sanity.A divorce can be the most maddening thing a person can go through, and while most of us…
What do you call a vampire who’s running for the U.S. Senate? Don’t bother asking Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth because the guy’s apparently humorless, can’t take a joke.Hayworth seems to think that a vampire quip made by former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods was a death threat, and is demanding an apology.In an…
After an incident between Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson and a Phoenix police officer ignited tensions between police and minority communities, minority leaders have come out against the Phoenix Police Department, claiming it has a problem with its use of excessive force.A report released yesterday by the PPD shows that…
John McCain’s maverickness is getting called into question after an interview the senator gave this week, where McCain downplays the nickname and denies ever viewing himself in that regard. “I never considered myself a maverick,” McCain tells Newsweek. “I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to…
Governor Jan Brewer signed two bills into law yesterday that — if nothing else — solidify Arizona’s reputation as the Wild West.One of the bills, HB 2307, allows Arizonans to own guns without registering them with the federal government, as long as the guns are made, bought, and sold in…
Somehow, between hiding Easter eggs and filling baskets with candy, the Easter Bunny found time to give a photo-enforcement camera in Tempe an oval-shaped “up yours!” And an anti-speed-camera group predicts such civil disobedience will happen “more and more” until the cameras are gone.As you read yesterday in our Feathered Bastard blog, a man in a…
[jump] As bad as your drive to work may have been this morning, this jalopy should remind you of one thing: It could be worse…
Ace Dan Haren was awesome, Stephen Drew hit a bizarre inside-the-park home run, and Kurt Warner threw out the opening pitch — not a bad way to start the 2010 baseball season, and a D-backs win was the icing on the cake. After finishing last season in the basement of the NL West, the…
In celebration of the beginning of baseball season, Senator John McCain announced today that he has the support of former Arizona Diamondbacks slugger Luis Gonzalez in his bid to fend off J.D. Hayworth, his Republican U.S. Senate primary opponent.While we don’t recommend that you take your voting cues from a…
Jesse James, the bad-boy biker husband of Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock, checked into a rehab facility in Tucson last week to start battling his addiction to sex. Today, it’s reported that James left the facility but quickly checked back in to continue trying to “save [his] marriage.”Since he was…
*UPDATE* This lawsuit against Ray has since been dismissed.The hits just keep coming for “spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray, the snake-oil salesman charged in the deaths of three people at a sweat-lodge ceremony in Sedona last October.Lawsuits filed in Maricopa County Superior Court claim that Ray misled people into paying…
A researcher at the University of Arizona will spend the next five years studying the effects of the party drug ecstasy, thanks to a $1.7 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the university announced Friday.Terrence Monks, head of U of A’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, won’t…
Back in January, Senator John McCain’s daughter, Meghan, told an audience at the University of Florida that her father was “coming along” in terms of supporting gay marriage. If you believe everything you see on gay porn Web sites, “The Maverick” seems to be making enormous strides. McCain’s image was found on a gay porn…
The Phoenix Coyotes have the best shootout record in the NHL, which is a good thing considering their power play sucks to high hell. The Coyotes beat the Edmonton Oilers 3-2 on Saturday night after an eight-round shootout and nine unsuccessful Phoenix power plays that should have prevented the game from ever…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, the likely Democratic candidate for governor, believes that the murder of Douglas rancher Robert Krentz was probably the act of a scout working for a Mexican drug cartel, despite little, non-circumstantial evidence suggesting this was the case.”It appears this was an employee of the drug…
The Arizona Cardinals announced today that the team has signed kicker Jay Feeley, even though negotiations with the Cards current kicker, Neil Rackers, are still sort of going on.Feeley played last season with the New York Jets, where he made 30 of 36 field goals and didn’t miss an extra…
The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public’s help in finding two sisters who were reported missing yesterday.According to police, the girls, ages 15 and 11, never reported home from school yesterday, but investigators aren’t sure if they even made it school.Police say the girls left their home, near 48th…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, the “consistent conservative” who touts his devout Christianity in television and radio ads, is heading to Las Vegas this weekend for happy hour with fellow conservatives at a bar called Stoney’s on the Strip.Where else would a good Christian spend his Easter weekend.Hayworth will be at…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest dehumanizing crime deterrent yesterday — a device the sheriff is calling “pedal vision.”Pedal vision is a something the Sheriff’s Office rigged up that requires inmates to ride a stationary bike if they want to watch television.As an inmate pedals, the bike creates…
When your average citizen is murdered, there typically isn’t a Congressional hearing to sort out the details. However, when that citizen is assumed to have been murdered by an illegal immigrant, members of Congress tend to take notice — even the cops have scant evidence.The latest to use the murder of…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Padres fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
