So there were zero protesters outside the University Club in Phoenix Tuesday night for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s fundraiser, featuring Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, author of Sand Land’s anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Which surprised me. I mean, recalled, disgraced former state Senator Russell…
Like baseball and apple pie, dogs biting mailmen is something of an American tradition — not a tradition the Postal Service is particularly pleased with, mind you.Letter carriers actually do get attacked by dogs every year (more than 5,500 in 2013), and Phoenix is now one of the top spots…
Sitting across from me in the office of her attorney, Tom Ryan, Sarah Beattie relates the details of her work for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in “constituent services,” which really amounted to working on the AG’s re-election campaign, creating documents, and, most importantly, raising money. In fact, according to…
I spotted Jay Heiler from across a crowded Pei Wei on a hot summer night in 2013. It had been years since I’d seen him last, but Heiler hadn’t changed a bit, a head or two taller than the other patrons, a boyish wave in his carefully combed blond hair…
A large majority of Arizonans think the land of SB 1070 is a “good place for minorities.”Gallup polled residents of all 50 states, asking, “Is the city or area where you live a good place or not a good place to live for racial or ethnic minorities.”In Arizona, 84 percent…
ABC 15 has been teasing an exclusive interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio over the last few days, promising that “no question or topic is off limits.”Forgive us for believing that such controversial questions would be along the lines of, “Sheriff, why do the taxpayers deserve to pay the bill to…
For once, the news about Arizona’s education system isn’t strictly bad news.Turns out, Arizona is no longer the nation’s leader in high school dropouts…
The Maricopa County medical examiner identified Raul Silva Corona as the wrong-way driver who hit Mesa Police Officer Brandon Mendoza early yesterday morning, killing both of them.People had reported to police that a driver was going the wrong-way on Loop 101 near Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard in North Scottsdale, and…
Now here’s something you truly don’t see every day: a candidate for public office doing something beneficial for Democrats and Republicans.James Woods, a Democrat running in Congressional District 5, hosted a party over the weekend to get local political candidates’ campaign materials reproduced in braille, for blind and other sight-impaired…
Denials can be telling. Certainly, this is the case with Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s denial of wrongdoing, in the wake of attorney Tom Ryan’s dropping his bunker buster of a complaint on Horne’s office. The document, which Ryan filed dramatically on Monday with the Arizona Secretary of State, alleges…
Air conditioning obviously makes homes in Phoenix cooler, but A.C. units make the city itself even hotter, according to new research.A recently published study led by a researcher from Arizona State University found that the heat emitted by A.C. systems makes the air temperature hotter — in some cases more…
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to know by next March how well the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station can withstand the shock of earthquakes. In 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordered Palo Verde and all other U.S. nuclear plants to re-evaluate their seismic risk following the Fukushima disaster. (The…
Sky Harbor International Airport saw its busiest month ever in March, with more than 4 million passengers.With a total of 4,029,861 passengers going through Sky Harbor, it was the first time that more than 4 million people passed through the airport in a single month…
Arizonans are not big on charity.That’s according to the latest Gallup poll comparing the states, which found that only 26 percent of Arizonans said they’d donated money and volunteered their time in the past month — tied for the third-lowest rate in the nation…
It’s 2014 and some professors at Arizona State University say the state is still two years away from recovering from the economic crisis.Professors from ASU’s W.P. Carey School of Business held their 2014 Annual Economic Outlook Luncheon, which included a discussion about Arizona’s slow recovery…
Chandler attorney Tom Ryan has dropped his daisy cutter on Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office, and there ain’t much left standing. Today, Ryan submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office a 15-page sworn affidavit from his client, ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, describing extensive political work and campaign fundraising…
A 32-year-old Mesa police officer was killed early this morning by a wrong-way driver.A Mesa police spokesman says Officer Brandon Mendoza was on his way home after finishing a shift when he was hit by the driver, near the U.S. 60 and Interstate 10 interchange. Both Mendoza and the wrong-way…
Living in Phoenix comes with a unique set of challenges.Although you might find some similar issues in other cities, only people in Phoenix have to deal with all 10 of these problems:…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered.Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
A jet from the Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma crashed southeast of Phoenix.The crash of the AV-8B Harrier happened in an unpopulated area near Sacaton, and the Marine pilot ejected safely, according to updates from the air station…
Today in Found at the Border: Pot-smugglers are now short $1.2 million worth of product after trying to hide their stash in a load of jalapeños.This is hardly surprising, as the pot-in-the-jalapeños plot is one of the oldest tricks in the book of Mexican drug-smuggling…
Here’s the surprising fact of the day: Of the 50 largest cities in the United States, there are five cities where walking to work is less popular than it is in Phoenix.The obvious expectation would be that Phoenix is dead last, because who in their right mind walks anywhere when…
