Marijuana use by teens continues to decline in Colorado since the proliferation of retail medical-pot stores, but the state’s health department would rather focus on perceptions over reality. A news release put out today by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is headlined, “New survey documents youth marijuana…
The upcoming Arizona Attorney General’s Republican primary is chiefly about the character of Tom Horne, the scandal-ridden incumbent. But opponent Mark Brnovich’s campaign can’t simply hang a scarlet “A” on Horne’s chest and call it a day. He has to convince Republican voters around the state that he can not…
The Maricopa County Elections Department had to send some voters in Peoria a second ballot after one of the candidates for city council was inadvertently left off the ballot. The problem is, the second ballot didn’t include candidate Ken Krieger’s name either. “We looked at the proof, and we okayed…
Phoenix resident Noah Dyer has an idea: Let’s do without privacy. Dyer thinks a society with no privacy might be best, and he’s offering to go first, by planning to live his life without any privacy at all, with every moment being live-streamed 24 hours a day for a year…
Christine Jones and her former boss, GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons, together have contributed the vast majority of the money raised to help Jones get elected Arizona governor. State campaign finance reports show that as of May 31, Jones has contributed $2.1 million of the roughly $2.3 million she’s raised. Parsons…
Residents of the community of Tonopah are trying to stop Hickman’s Family Farms from building a new facility that will house about 2.2 million hens, and possibly more. A citizens’ group calling themselves Save Tonopah Oppose Poultry Plant (STOPP) have filed a lawsuit with the intention of having a county…
In Arizona, you’ve got to get the justice you can when you can get it. That’s because in this state, particularly when it comes to public corruption or the abuse of power, you might as well wait for Godot if you think the wicked will be punished as part of…
Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox came to Phoenix to speak on behalf of Monica Jones, a transgender Phoenix student convicted on charges of manifesting prostitution in April. Cox, Jones, and Jones’ attorneys all claim that the Phoenix city ordinance under which Jones was arrested is unconstitutional and discriminatory. Jones’ attorneys filed…
UPDATE 7:08 p.m.: Reports out of Tucson say the charges have been dropped. Three activists who rally against alleged abuses by federal border authorities want prosecutors to drop charges stemming from a run-in between the two sides in May. Shena Gutierrez — whose husband suffered severe injuries including brain damage…
Thomas has nearly as many skeletons in his closet as the Catacombs of Paris, and he’s hoping if he can just keep yammering about “illegals” and “the gay lobby,” he’ll avoid having to talk about them. Thomas isn’t considered likely to win even the Republican primary, despite the crowded field…
I’m a handsome exemplar of the bronce race living in the motherland. I’m dating a beautiful and wonderful gringuita who is soon taking a trip over the border from the U.S. to Mexico for the first time to visit me, and my pinche big family. There are a couple of…
An atheist organization claims there’s a “significant religious bias” in a Queen Creek charter school run by Republican state Representative Eddie Farnsworth. The American Humanist Association’s legal team sent a letter on behalf of a family to Farnsworth and the Benjamin Franklin Charter School, asking that the seemingly religion-heavy curriculum…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has a fierce following among certain women. In fact, the guy’s got a whole cadre of gals willing to do his bidding, a veritable Praetorian Guard of political hatchet-ladies. Kathleen Winn, Horne’s outreach director and co-defendant in his campaign finance case, comes to mind. A…
Peter Steinmetz says he was just trying to make a political point when he brought a fully loaded AR-15 into the airport on July 25, but he won’t repeat the act. Police arrested the Barrow Neurological Institute brain researcher on suspicion of disorderly conduct with a firearm, alleging the muzzle…
The Phoenix-area housing market has slumped for nearly a year now, according to the latest real estate report from the Center for Real Estate Theory and Practice at Arizona State University. “Demand has been much weaker since July 2013 and as yet shows little to no sign of recovery,” the…
Fortunately, I’ve not had to get too close to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne lately, as the stench of desperation coming off the guy is practically visible, like the cloud of dirt that followed around Charlie Brown’s pal Pig Pen in the old Peanuts comic strip. Horne clearly hopes a…
A Mesa police officer has been indicted on three felony sex-crime offenses, all of which allegedly occurred while he was on duty. Justin Cherry, 34, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual molestation of a child…
Phoenix police arrested twin brothers on Wednesday in connection with a series of Valley bank robberies, including one committed under police surveillance. The arrest appears to solve the case of the so-called “High-Jump Bandit,” whose prolific robberies prompted authorities to seek help from the media in late July. Alan Michael…
Convicted murderer Joseph Wood was given 15 doses of lethal-injection drugs during the course of an execution that lasted nearly two hours on July 23.This appears to be a violation of the state’s lethal-injection protocol, which says “an additional dose of the lethal chemical(s)” may be used if the first…
Attorney General Tom Horne wants to take a legal battle against Planned Parenthood of Arizona all the way to the United States Supreme Court. The two are fighting over a law passed by the Arizona Legislature in 2012 that would force physicians to follow the original FDA approval guidelines for…
At some Arizona high schools, the powers that be decided not to choose some tired old mascot like the Bears or Eagles.Instead, some high schools decided to branch out and pick something different, and years later, they’ve landed on New Times’ list of the 10 worst high school mascots in…
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