[jump] Joel Fox says: While I’m sure you all know much more about the facts of this case than I do, I wouldn’t mind addressing some of your points. I am not at all worried about the media’s portrayal of Joe Arpaio. The Sheriff can, and does deal with the…
Teasers strip club at Grand Avenue and U.S. 60, according to its Web site, is like a neighborhood bar, kind of like Cheers but with lots of tits. That is, it’s a real friendly place — except when some dirtbag comes in with a gun and ends up murdering one of the…
First, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors strips County Attorney Andrew Thomas of the right to handle civil litigation for the county, causing Thomas to sue the board. Now, the five-member board wants to bring Thomas in to a special meeting on Monday to get his advice on — you…
[jump] The problems begin with the bike ride to the platform at 3rd Street and Mill Avenue. Though that part of the commute only took six minutes, the prep work involved can’t be underestimated. Even a short bike ride requires a few steps: Backpack, shoes (to replace biking cleated shoes…
Literally, it’s the most inane piece of twaddle I’ve read since the days when erstwhile pop star Jewel penned poetry. I’m talkin’ about O.J. Simpson-expert and CNN talking head Jeffrey Toobin’s suggestion in a post for The New Yorker online that ex-Arizona guv and DHS honch-ess Janet Napolitano would be…
The Gray Lady of Journalism boldly ventures where Arizona’s paper of record shudders to tread. Today the New York Times, in a scathing editorial, slammed Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s medieval 200 Mexican March on Wednesday, and demanded that Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano, and her boss President Barack Obama, do something…
Home of the Pistons: The Palace at Auburn Hills For Phoenix Suns fans, there have been some stomachache-inducing moments this season. The disheartening blowouts in Boston and Charlotte. The heartbreaker on Christmas Day against San Antonio. However, the team’s official fall into bottomless pit of apathy occurred at the conclusion…
The sexual misconduct trial of former Catholic priest Dale Fushek is “cut off at the knees” after a judge rules he has the right to five separate trials for his six charges. Cardinals offensive coordinator Todd Haley reportedly will leave to coach the Kansas City Chiefs — that could be…
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We warned you that the Phoenix City Council’s selection of a replacement for departing Councilman Greg Stanton (pictured) was no done deal — but even we didn’t realize just how popular this position would be. Minutes before the official day’s-end deadline, workers at the city clerk’s office told us they’d received applications…
KTAR’s reporting that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas called Arpaio’s jail segregation of undocumented Hispanics “unconstitutional” in a press conference today. Apparently, Thomas cleared the statement with the “male” in the Arpaio-Thomas relationship, and there are no hard feelings between the two.”I have taken the consistent position that racial and…
Hate to tease you like that, but a last-minute switcheroo in the courtroom today means that the hearing on the case between Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and Maricopa County has been put off. Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio — the two politicians who are suing the county — didn’t show up (they…
Ever since Janet Napolitano’s nomination to be director of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some liberals and immigrant rights activists have held out hope that Napolitano would rein in the excesses of the department’s 287(g) program and its worksite enforcement raids. The New York Times trumpeted her as “the…
Janet Napolitano, our former governor and current Homeland Security secretary, is taking heat from a think-tank that accuses her of making the federal government’s crackdown of illegal immigrants even more efficient.In an article that clearly takes issue with Napolitano’s directives in her first weeks as boss of Homeland Security, Americas…
A fight turned into a “small-scale riot” involving 200 to 300 people just outside South Mountain High School on Wednesday, police say.Though a spokesman quoted in the Arizona Republic today says only about 40 or 50 people were involved and that it “probably looked even worse than it was,” a…
It looks like Round Two of the lawsuit between Maricopa County and the Maricopa County Attorney’s office begins today.An “order to show cause” has been issued in the case, and we understand it’s likely Andrew Thomas has been ordered to appear for a hearing at 1:30 p.m. (Thomas could send…
Prosecutor Juan Martinez tried to paint murder defendant Doug Grant’s current wife Hilary as a co-conspiring, manipulative, slutty, cold-blooded, gold-digging, backstabbing floozy during hours of tense testimony Wednesday. Doug Grant, a onetime nutritionist for the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, is accused of killing another of his wives, Faylene (that’s the…
It’s past time for the Suns to panic. But they can’t muster up enough energy to even care whether another sub-.500 team blows them out. Pride? Apparently they have none. Is it that they hate Coach Terry Porter, he of the long practices, clich’ed press conferences, and tough-guy persona? Because they can’t really be this…
Size matters: Arizona’s Republican senators are both pushing for an alternative to Obama’s stimulus package. Napolitano called him “Chicken Little” when he made the prediction that the state was going to run out of money, but now State Treasurer Dean Martin is sounding an optimistic note, declaring Arizona’s economy will…
I can’t tell you how disappointed I’ve been these past few days, as a U.S. citizen and ciudadano mexicano, how I’ve been seeing more and more stories about los narcos and how the Mexican government keeps getting screwed over in newspapers. I think that you should dedicate a whole article…
PILOT ERROR I don’t want to ever be on his flights: After reading this article, it makes a person wonder what’s necessary to stop a pilot from making a serious mistake. I don’t agree with lying as a form of justification, but I do think that these attendants did the…
DEAD DIAPER BLUES This funky finch could hardly believe his feathered ears. On the other end of the horn was New Times reader Rose Hartman, a neighbor of none other than William Windsor, Phoenix’s own beloved “Baby Man,” whom New Times profiled in a 2005 cover story of the same…
