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Despite the fact that Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been raking in the money for his re-election bid, some people trying to cash in on Arpaio’s name have been awful at making advertisements.The first one we noticed was John Philip Sousa IV’s independent-expenditure committee called “Americans for Sheriff Joe,” which…
Stanley Young, the lawyer for five people suing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for racial profiling, is doing a good job making Sheriff Joe Arpaio look like a racist this morning. Following testimony earlier in the morning from a deputy, Arpaio took the stand, starting off with the disclaimer that…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ two hottest hitters, Jason Kubel and Aaron Hill, went a combined 0-for-8 last night.The D-backs still beat the Colorado Rockies 6-3 at Chase Field.D-Backs starter Ian Kennedy drove in three runs on a standing triple — to repeat, Ian Kennedy drove in three runs on a triple…
We disagreed with Alexander Cockburn, well, more than half the time, and that was a good thing. We had read him for years when he was with the Village Voice(long before the New Times chain took over the New York City alternative weekly giant), and really appreciated how he skewered…
Congratulations to the New Times reader known as RetiredArmy, you’ve won this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lead birther “investigator,” Mike Zullo. We picked the five best captions, and put…
Yesterday, we brought you the top five reasons why post-traumatic stress disorder should be on the list of qualifying ailments under the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act.We propose these reasons because the state’s Department of Health Services recently rejected adding PTSD to the list. Medical marijuana use for anxiety, migraine headaches,…
A county judge has put a halt to a state Department of Health Services rule that is preventing the approval of a would-be medical-marijuana dispensary. White Mountain Health Center wants to open a dispensary in Sun City, but it can’t get the county to acknowledge or reject its request for…
See also: Russell Pearce Blames Victims for Dark Knight Massacre (w/Update) See also: Russell Pearce on Blast for Racist E-mails in New Dennis Gilman Video See also: Russell Pearce’s Racism “Discovered” by Arizona’s Media This past week has not been kind to recalled, disgraced ex-state Senator Russell Pearce. First, the…
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See also: Marijuana Is Real Medicine for a Long List of Ills See also: Medical Marijuana Is Under Attack in Arizona Again — But This Time, Voters and Patients Hold the High Ground Last week, the state Department of Health Services rejected the chance to add PTSD to the list…
Peoria Police Chief Roy Minter announced today that a patrol sergeant was demoted and suspended for directing a “racially derogatory term” at a podium in April.Sergeant Patrick Kief is now Officer Patrick Kief for “us[ing] a racially derogatory term to describe his frustration with a podium he was using during…
A deputy and a dog from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department were both pretty sure they smelled weed in a car during a traffic stop, but there was no pot found in the car.While they were still there, though — in front of the driver’s house — the dog happened…
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Aircraft emergency slides aren’t always the bouncy-castle thrill they appear to be — as Tammie Dent knows too well. The Phoenix woman broke her tailbone on a slide after an Allegiant Air jet carrying 154 people made an emergency landing in Flagstaff two years ago. Dent and her husband are…
Gilman skewers Pearce and brings back an old Pearce bud from the dead From beyond the grave, J.T. Ready haunts recalled, disgraced state Senator Russell Pearce in this new video by Dennis Gilman on the controversy surrounding Pearce’s racist e-mails, unearthed and made public by the ACLU. Some of the…
When a pair of women found Christopher Shahin in the backseat of his car with a girl last year, Shahin let the women know that the girl was his “baby mama” and that “she fine.”The girl was not Shahin’s “baby mama,” nor was “fine” — she was a 14-year-old girl…
Former Alaska Governor and Vice President runner-up Sarah Palin says Congressman Jeff Flake should be the next U.S. Senator from Arizona.The gaffe-prone ex-governor — who briefly wanted to “stand with our North Korean allies” and sparked concerns about the “Department of Law” — says Flake’s the kind of guy who…
These days, the once-proud Houston Astros are more like a Triple-A minor league franchise than a bona fide big-league team. So when the `Stros came to town over the weekend, it was welcome news for the up-and-down Arizona Diamondbacks, who are (or should be) in desperation mode now as the…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lead birther “investigator,” Mike Zullo. After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it down to five finalists. Only one person…
See also: Russell Pearce’s Racism “Discovered” by Arizona’s Media See also: Russell Pearce’s Mexican-Bashing E-mails Slammed By Randy Parraz, Others Recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s heart, or what little there is of it, goes out to the victims of the Dark Knight Rises shootings in Aurora, Colorado. But…
