From the hot-mic recording of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault to the new WikiLeaks revelations about Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street speeches to last night’s bizarre 90-minute debate, it’s fair to say this weekend was a game changer in the 2016 election campaign. But as prominent Republican figures like Senator…
The Arizona Department of Health Services awarded preliminary licenses for 31 new medical-marijuana dispensaries last week, creating a lucrative opportunity for entrepreneurs and (soon) more shopping choices for patients. Most of the 747 applicants lost out on their hoped-for pot of green gold — not to mention the nonrefundable $4,000…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, making an argument for our status as a border town. Here’s our list of the best people in our midst. Best DREAMer: Erika Andiola She most certainly isn’t the only one, but Erika Andiola is this year’s best DREAMer…
A report published this past week has found that public schools in Arizona with high Latino populations have less funding and face greater challenges compared to schools that have lower proportions of Latino students. Released October 6, State of Latino Arizona 2016 finds that schools with large percentages of Latino students generally…
Dear Stoner: I’ve had a vaporizer for almost a year now and have a buttload of golden-brown vaped weed saved up. Is there anything I can do with it, or have I been wasting my energy? Nicholas Dear Nicholas: If your vaporizer isn’t turning your flower black, it might eventually…
More than 1,100 Maricopa County educators could get a salary bump next year thanks to a $60 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant, secured by the Maricopa County Education Service Agency, was one of 13 awarded nationwide as part of a federal program to improve teacher…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of “as told to” profiles that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. It’s been more than 20 years since I moved from Los Angeles to become the head of the MFA…
A Tucson tattoo model has tapped into the nationwide clown scare, grabbing media attention by creating a flyer for an alleged pro-clown event to be held October 15 in the parking lot of a Tucson bar. “Clown Lives Matter — 4th Avenue Peace Walk,” says the headline of the flyer, written…
In this year’s presidential election, some are saying the Republican-tilting state of Arizona could go Democrat for the first time in two decades — and that Latino voters will play a key role in whether that happens. Latinos make up 22 percent of Arizona’s eligible voters, and most lean Democratic. They usually…
Arizona’s marijuana-legalization ballot initiative, Proposition 205, has been endorsed by the Arizona Democratic Party and several other notable groups and politicians. Voters will decide the fate of the proposition on November 8. If it’s approved, adults 21 and older could legally possess up to an ounce of marijuana, grow six…
“When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over — and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.” That was Donald Trump, speaking at…
Dear Stoner: I have a drug test in a week and smoked weed ten days ago. I hadn’t smoked for a while before that. Will I be good? Should I be worried? Prickly Dear Prickly: It depends on what method the drug test uses to detect THC. If it’s a…
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has declined to prosecute Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite deputy Brian Mackiewicz on allegations that Mackiewicz abused his overtime while working on the MCSO’s notorious Seattle investigation, which involved a 13-month probe of a kooky anti-Arpaio conspiracy theory that supposedly involved federal Judge G. Murray Snow…
An Arizona employer is stiffing a small-business owner on a completed job, affecting dozens of low-income employees. Sounds like the kind of greedhead Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families is targeting with its campaign to raise the minimum wage, right? Wrong — the employer is Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy…
More than 10,000 people schlepped to the Prescott Valley Events Center Tuesday to see Donald Trump in the flesh. Fans started lining up for the rally — Trump’s sixth appearance in Arizona — at 9 p.m. Monday. There wasn’t enough room inside, so several thousand watched the Republican presidential nominee…
Just before sunset on a recent Sunday, Alfonso Cordoba is the only street vendor left on a highly trafficked corner near 65th Avenue and Berkeley Road in west Phoenix. Cordoba, an amiable-looking man in his 40s, is wearing sensible-looking Teva shoes and a straw hat to keep the last traces…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of “as told to” profiles that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. In 1988, I was in my mid-30s, and had just broken off a relationship and was feeling sorry for…
In a lengthy statement released to news outlets on Monday, Arizona’s top federal prosecutor called for the public to curb its rampant speculation about police shootings, which he blamed on “news media, social media, and some politicians.” The statement by John S. Leonardo, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, follows…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of “as told to” profiles that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. I’ve been in the Valley since 1978, most recently from law school. I went to Stanford, and then moved…
La edición de 2016 Lo Mejor de Phoenix del New Times ya está disponible, con una serie de ensayos que exploran cómo nuestra proximidad a México hace que este sea un lugar mejor para vivir. Muy a menudo hablamos de ciudades fronterizas como si la geografía fuera todo lo que…
When track star Will Claye first tried the triple jump at Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee his freshman year, his coach, Larry Todd, told him he was too good. “He was like, ‘Oh yeah. You got it. You’ve almost got it down too well, too early,'” Claye recalls. “‘You’re…
Growing up in Phoenix, Bob Carey probably never imagined that one day, he would take photographs of himself wearing pink tutus at locations all over the world, his burly body posed in pliés on beaches and performing pirouettes on the Brooklyn Bridge. Then again, Carey probably never imagined his wife, Linda…
