After John McCain tweeted his support of a federal judge’s decision to block a new overtime-pay rule, the Arizona senator’s Twitter followers carved into him like a freshly roasted Butterball.
On Wednesday, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey fired Tim Jeffries, the man he’d appointed as director of the state’s Department of Economic Security. The grounds for dismissal: Jeffries’ mass firings of workers, which were first reported last year by Phoenix New Times. Jeffries, who received an annual salary of $215,250, had served…
David Farca, head of the quasi-governmental Arizona-Mexico Commission, has been fired from the presidency of Arizona’s professional soccer team. Last year, Governor Doug Ducey appointed Farca to a non-salaried post running the Arizona-Mexico Commission, a nonprofit that works to enhance the state’s business relationship with Mexico. As president, Farca is the primary…
Far-right advocacy group Judicial Watch files suit on behalf of Russell Pearce against Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich for public records that Brnovich’s office was about to release.
Kirk Nurmi, the former lead defense attorney in the Jodi Arias murder trial, has lost his law license for writing a tell-all book about Arias that broke the wall of attorney-client privilege. It’s the latest instance of how Arias, who viciously attacked, mutilated, and killed her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in…
The display cabinet behind the desk of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been cleaned out. The walls of his expansive office on the third floor of the sheriff’s space-agey headquarters at 550 West Jackson Street are bare; photographs and framed awards overlap on the floor, ready to be boxed…
Weeks before the election, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was making plans to resign from office if he were to be reelected — possibly depending on an appointment from Donald Trump or maybe because of his legal problems, New Times has learned. In an interview yesterday, Arpaio denied this. But a…
A group of professors is calling on Arizona’s public colleges and universities to protect undocumented students who may face deportation under President-elect Donald Trump.
Four states legalized recreational marijuana in the same election Trump won, and Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota rolled back tight restrictions on medical marijuana.
Former Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is on President-elect Donald Trump’s shortlist for Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Local environmentalists think she’d be terrible at the job.
A federal judge sentenced former Redflex CEO Karen Finley to 30 months in prison last week for her role in a bribery scheme to win photo-enforcement contracts in Chicago. U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall also ordered Finley to pay $2 million in restitution, telling the 57-year-old Arizonan “there is no…
In an apparent rebuke of California Attorney General and U.S. Senator-elect Kamala Harris, a Sacramento judge has found in favor of the current CEO and two former owners of online classified site Backpage.com, granting a tentative ruling dismissing criminal charges against the three men on Wednesday, hours before oral arguments…
Columnist Stephen Lemons lays out how felony pimping charges against the founders of online-classified giant Backpage.com are the product of a prosecutorial overreach that might seem ridiculous if it didn’t have such serious ramifications for defendants, for the internet as we know it, and for the First Amendment.
Arizona’s Prop 205 campaign has finally conceded, ending the high hopes of hundreds of thousands of residents that the state would legalize marijuana. With the first few waves of voting results on November 8, the initiative looked like a goner. The Associated Press called it for the “no” side later…
Donors are keeping Planned Parenthood busy in the wake of the U.S. presidential election.
Arizona could be well-represented in President Trump’s cabinet, judging by lists of the various contenders for high-ranking jobs released over the weekend.
Arizona didn’t wake up on Monday morning to a change in the vote-count — Prop 205’s still failing miserably. Its chances of passing as officials count the remaining votes this week are about the same as Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk dabbing a hit of shatter on the evening news…
Scientific studies have shown that being exposed to large amounts of marijuana smoke in an unventilated room — a.k.a. hotboxing — can increase your heart rate while decreasing cognitive skills, but the conditions have to be extreme.
At least 150 people marched down Central Avenue in Phoenix on Friday afternoon to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.
In an exclusive interview with New Times, Arizona’s favorite politician, Robert Sedona, discusses why he’s launching a 2018 campaign for governor on the heels of his failed bid for Congress in 2016.
Latino activists are counting on the new sheriff in town, Paul Penzone, to make changes in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and improve relations with the Latino community.
Medical-marijuana doctors and certification centers report seeing an increase in appointments over the two days following the negative election results of Proposition 205. The measure to legalize marijuana in Arizona appears to have failed, though the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol in Arizona is waiting for all the votes…
