In a move that blocks a Satanist group from giving the invocation at the next Phoenix City Council meeting, the council voted 5-4 Wednesday night to no longer open every meeting with a prayer. It instead will call for a moment of silence. A member of the Satanic Temple from…
Ann Kirkpatrick is tied with John McCain in a new poll among state voters with an opinion about the upcoming U.S. Senate election. The Democratic congresswoman from Arizona’s District One still has an uphill battle, though, according to Earle de Berge, whose company, Behavior Research Center, conducts the Rocky Mountain Poll…
Andy Tobin says he’s “nervous” and “concerned” about a conflict of interest that will prevent him from voting on many major decisions as the newest Arizona Corporation Commission member. Tobin’s a Republican ex-lawmaker who served as Speaker of the House and, for a short time, director of the now-vanished state…
Feels like just yesterday that Uber delivered kittens around Phoenix for National Cat Day. Well, today the company’s bringing us puppies! In honor of our favorite sporting event, the Puppy Bowl — Animal Planet’s annual pre-Super Bowl show in which dozens of adorable puppies run around and tackle each other on a…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s crack team of animal crimes investigators remain flummoxed over the shooting death of Dotty the wild Salt River horse, according a report recently released by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Dotty was the 12 year-old mare found October 1, dead and floating in the Salt River near…
In a bizarre twist to the already bizarre story of Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio’s die-hard determination to prevent The Satanic Temple from exercising it’s Constitutional right to deliver the invocation at a council meeting later this month, DiCiccio — along with his council colleagues Jim Waring, Bill Waring, and…
Four conservation groups are joining forces to sue the U.S. Forest Service over a policy that allows hunters in the Kaibab National Forest to drive motorized vehicles cross-country to retrieve felled elk and bison. In the lawsuit, the activist groups, including the Sierra Club, the Wild Earth Guardians, the Wildland…
A new pro-marijuana billboard that plays off the slogan promoting the Waste Management Phoenix Open was unveiled in Phoenix on Monday by the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol. “If beer and golf make for the ‘greatest party on grass’…Why can’t adults enjoy a safer party on grass?” reads the…
One thing we know about the chilly winter weather in metro Phoenix this morning. It won’t last. It’ll be 70 again before you know it — in February. Which is to say that visitors from other parts of the country will discover what the rest of us already know: It’s…
Don Harris is no longer the leader of Arizona’s largest NAACP chapter due to a sexist comment he made last week following a community meeting about six Ahwatukee teenagers’ use of a racial epithet. Harris, a local lawyer and former U.S. Marine Corps officer, had been under fire for several…
Get your extra blankets and hot chocolate ready, people – it’s gonna be damn cold tonight in Phoenix. Temperatures are expected to plunge into the 30s, and may even drop to or below 32 in the outlying metro region – we’re looking at you, Coolidge, Casa Grande, Arizona city, and…
A family video of Paul Babeu soon after he became headmaster at a boarding school for troubled teens proves he knew of the perverse and abusive discipline at the school. Babeu, a former Chandler police officer and the sheriff of Pinal County since getting elected in 2008, is running for…
There’s a lot you probably don’t know about Phoenix, even if you’ve lived here for a while. Check our picks for 10 things you probably didn’t know about the city:…
Turf Paradise remains open for business, despite a suspected case of equine herpes virus that has resulted in Arizona officials issuing a 21-day quarantine for the popular West Phoenix track. On Thursday, the Arizona Department of Agriculture announced that it had imposed a quarantine on horses going in or out…
Don Harris, president of Arizona’s largest NAACP chapter, will find out on Monday whether he’ll be fired for saying a TV reporter had “nice tits” just after a meeting about six high school girls’ use of a racial slur. Under the hot-lamp since New Times published an article on Wednesday…
After local members of The Satanic Temple announced they were chosen to kick off a Phoenix City Council meeting next month by delivering the public invocation, one of the council’s more outspoken conservative members, Sal DiCiccio, began a social media firestorm by blasting off a tweet criticizing the city for…
Publishing entrepreneur Steve Strickbine has purchased the East Valley Tribune and Ahwatukee Foothills News for an undisclosed price, vowing to improve the content of the semiweekly newspapers. Strickbine is the CEO of Times Media Group, which puts out the College Times, Scottsdale Airpark News, and other local print publications. He…
The president of the Maricopa County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People took heat and nearly resigned following an article in New Times about sexist comments he made about a TV reporter. The NAACP leader, Don Harris, didn’t return a voice mail. Harris got in…
Cannabis supporters were out in force at the state capitol today to celebrate a victory for Arizona’s Medical Marijuana Program. Supporters of medical pot were jubilant because state legislation,, HCR 2019, sponsored by Arizona Representative Jay Lawrence (R-Fountain Hills), would have prohibited naturopaths and homeopaths from writing medical-marijuana prescriptions. J.P…
Don Harris, head of the Maricopa County chapter of the NAACP, is concerned about the lack of sensitivity to black people. He was one of 40 or 50 community leaders and educators invited by the Tempe Union High School District to attend a private meeting on Tuesday about a widely…
The 25-day armed occupation of a federal building on the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon ended last night when law enforcement intercepted a convoy of militants about 20 miles away from the building. After weeks of pressure on the federal government to do something – arrest the men, raid…
Arizona legislators have made a name for themselves nationally with their creative, seemingly endless ideas for expanding access to firearms (including, this year, a proposal to offer tax credit to those who obtain a license to carry a concealed weapon). But there are also a few bills on the table…
