The Christian college infamous for its long-running ban on interracial dating put out a lengthy and seemingly heartfelt apology on Thursday for its bigoted past policies. Nowhere in the apology, though, does the university mention anything about its current bigoted policies toward gays. We guess that in Arizona, where the…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas seeks to have an amended lawsuit by New Times against the county dismissed and force the newspaper to pay attorneys’ fees. New Times sued the county earlier this year following the arrest of its founders Jim Larkin and Michael Lacey (pictured left and right above),…
Club Cabo is the kind of nightclub that makes Mexicans feel at home, so to speak. With thumping Spanish-language and world music, plus bilingual employees, the downtown Mesa club has served the Hispanic community for years — including the community’s undocumented immigrant partiers. In an interesting twist, the crowd seems…
That maniac you saw a running a red light might have been Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. In a public confession, Gordon admits he ran a red light at the corner of 7th Street and Northern recently, netting him a photo enforcement ticket. Talk about transparency in government. Other news highlights:…
The nightmare of the 1991 massacre at a Phoenix Buddhist temple resurfaced today after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the conviction of the triggerman in the slayings, Jonathan Doody (pictured above with his lawyer). The Associated Press reports that the appeals court judges found Doody’s 1991 confession was…
Jarrett Maupin, a former candidate for Phoenix mayor, was arrested and booked into jail today by deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Details are scant at this point, but a news release (reprinted below) put out by the Sheriff’s Office says Maupin is accused of lying to sheriff’s investigators…
We at New Times have fond memories of Secretary of State Jan Brewer — we simply love foul-mouthed women like her. As the state prepares for a possible Brewer regime if Janet Napolitano flies the coop to be Homeland Security chief, we can’t help but skip down Memory Lane to…
The mostly anonymous hacks at the right-wing blog sonoranalliance.com take issue with a recent Valley Fever post about their use of unnamed writers, blabbering in an article yesterday that New Times ought to worry about selling more tattoo parlor ads. Look, it’s a fact that we and others who read…
More digital billboards will be sprouting along Interstate 10 through Tolleson after the town gave the signs the green light this week. The town debated for more than a year whether to allow the billboards, which have popped up alongside freeways in other communities . Some residents believe the highly…
Arizona State University’s award-winning, full-color Research magazine will publish its last issue in March — another apparent victim of cost-cutting in the face of economic troubles. “We have been told to re-invent ourselves,” says Conrad Storad, the ASU employee who started the magazine in 1986 with graphic designer Michael Hagelberg…
Initial reports of less-than-stellar voter turnout in the November 4 election brought cries of frustration from some officials: “It’s extremely disappointing to me,” Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell told the East Valley Tribune. “We work very hard for this. I think it went smoothly, but I just would have liked…
Remember when folks were whining about light rail construction? (Okay, some of us still are.) The Repub reports this morning that a group of local residents and business owners are complaining loudly about project — specifically, that it’s not coming soon enough to their neighborhoods. This could be a case…
Governor Napolitano’s apparently Barack Obama’s top choice for chief of the Homeland Security department, leaving her the choice of advancing her career or staying in Arizona to stop her political enemies from running amok in her absence. Republican Secretary of State Jan Brewer would automatically become governor if Napolitano exits…
Okay, we realize this bumper sticker is a bit hard to see, but it reads “1/20/2013.” Get it? Looks like numerous Web sites are selling these stickers now that the election is a done deal. It takes a lot of screwing up by a president to fail to win a…
View Larger Map A Sun City resident who wanted to honor the country’s veterans persuaded the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names to slap a handle on a nameless Phoenix peak and (voila!) Veterans Mountain is born. It’s a sweet and sentimental idea, and Air Force veteran Lanny…
Maybe she wrote the softball questions herself. It is also no stretch to imagine that either her boss or someone doing the bidding of her boss wrote them.
By Ray Stern Remember what Sheriff Joe Arpaio said last month after a federal judge found Maricopa County jail conditions to be inadequate? He called the changes ordered by the judge to be “minor” and that he’s “always committed to improving the jail system wherever possible.” Now it looks like…
Limbaugh blathered on November 10 about the outrageous ban in the Arizona judicial system on perceived derogatory terms referring to immigrants. Problem was, no such ban had been decreed.
Republican Jan Brewer, now the secretary of state, would automatically become governor for the remainder of Napolitano’s term — until 2010 — if Janet stepped down.
It looks like year three is going to be about how they didn’t get the food right in year one or year two.
Law officers including deputy marshals and task force officers from Phoenix and northern California finally caught up to Sherwood yesterday as he was leaving services at the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco.
The two struggled, at which point Saridakis — who was armed at the time — says he could have shot and killed Jones, but didn’t want to.
