Joe Ricketts — whose family owns the Chicago Cubs — is completely appalled at the government’s frivolous waste of your hard-earned tax dollars. But, Ricketts’ conviction to ending wasteful spending doesn’t extend to his own billionaire family suckling on the government teat. Yeah, we’re calling hypocrite on this one…
Pete Rios, chairman of the Pinal County Board of Supervisors, voiced his frustration with the county’s embattled sheriff in a recent letter published in local newspapers. It addresses Babeu’s repeated claims — including a post on his website in March — that he has balanced his budget despite being about…
Sometimes it’s hard to ignore how adorable local TV reports are — like the endless chupacabra chases from KPHO.This time around, it’s ABC 15, which sent its reporters northwest to Wittmann to find out if serial cat-hoarder Lucienne Touboul — an 81-year-old woman — was really eating her cats.For the…
Maricopa County has dumped Cave Creek Councilman Steven LaMar following his failure to convince a federal judge that a $975,000 payment to Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox might need further authorization.LaMar was appointed to defend the county in late 2010 against the claims and subsequent lawsuits by county employees, former judges…
There’s a source to the religulous bills in the Arizona Legislature every year, and that source is called the Center for Arizona Policy.The atheists over at the Secular Coalition for Arizona have a problem with that, but it — and other groups — want Uncle Sam to see if there’s…
The dolt dropping off improvised explosive devices around Glendale in the form of flashlights may have delivered his third yesterday — this time in Phoenix.Someone dropped a flashlight in the donations at a Salvation Army in Phoenix yesterday, and when an employee clicked it on, it blew up.Phoenix police say…
The defending national champion ASU Sun Devils softball team will have to beat tough Louisiana-Lafayette twice tonight to advance to the College World Series in Oklahoma City.That, after the Ragin’ Cajuns routed the Devils 6-0 last night in Tempe in the first of the best-of-three Super Regionals series. The big…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Bruce Cohen reversed field yesterday, ruling that I can sit in his courtroom and report on what’s happening in the quirky arson case of State of Arizona v. Michael Marin. Earlier in the week, the judge booted me out of court at the request of…
A filing submitted in federal court Wednesday in the bribery, fraud, attempted extortion and false statements case of state Representative Ben Arredondo explains that the feds don’t want a bunch of information to be publicly disclosed in the case because of “other investigations,” which are “both closed and ongoing.”Who or…
Wearing flip-flops, grass skirts and Hawaiian leis, with surfboards in tow and the pungent odor of sunscreen trailing behind them, around 15-to-20 members of Citizens for a Better Arizona stormed the 19th Floor of Phoenix’s Wells Fargo Building this afternoon, briefly taking over the entranceway to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tony…
The best way to respond to a publicity stunt is with another publicity stunt, so the news that taxpayers are funding a Maricopa County Deputy Sheriff’s trip to Hawaii for “birther” purposes led activist Randy Parraz and friends to hold a little luau at Arpaio’s office in downtown Phoenix today…
If you’re doing shady stuff at the City of Tempe or the Arizona Legislature, go buy a shredder, or book a ticket to Morocco or something.A filing submitted in federal court yesterday in the bribery, fraud, attempted extortion and false statements case of state Representative Ben Arredondo explains that the…
Yuma farmers Sally Nakasawa and Robert Nickerson have been major growers of poppies for years, selling them for use in floral decorations.Their flowers could be seen by the public off U.S. Highway 95, and in 2008 a photo of them were featured in a Yuma Daily Sun article that pegged…
Jonathan Knight — who taught Tae Kwon Do to children in Gilbert — will be updating his address to a prison cell for sending pictures of his penis to a 12-year-old former student of his.Knight pleaded guilty last month to two counts of furnishing obscene or harmful items to a…
Sarah Walker’s doing a rare and brave thing — going public as an alleged victim of a sexual assault.Walker wants any people who believe they’re also victims of Lee Lubonne — the self-described “sex pig” currently jailed on suspicion of two sexual assaults — to come forward to the Maricopa…
Congressman Trent Franks — the “self-appointed Mayor” of Washington D.C., as an area advocacy group calls him — didn’t really want to meet with his new-found “constituents.”As you may recall, a group called “DC Vote” isn’t quite pleased Franks — the Arizona Congressman — is taking it upon himself to…
Everyone on the Arizona Diamondbacks had a float in the hit parade last night at Chase Field, as the Snakes drowned the division-leading Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4.Sure, 36-year-old Ted Lilly was on the mound for the Dodgers, but the D’Backs handed him his first loss of the season as he…
We’re not even through the 2012 election season, but let’s talk 2014.Secretary of State Ken Bennett was the highlight of Arizona news this week, after taking up the request of “birthers” to ask the State of Hawaii to verify President Obama’s birth certificate.The end to that was not so controversial…
GUILT BY ASSOCIATION If the shoe fits, Russell . . .: The connections between [recalled Arizona Senate President] Russell Pearce and mass-murderer J.T. Ready cannot be understated (“Ready to Kill,” Stephen Lemons, May 10)! Pearce not only, as New Times likes to say, is a “neo-Nazi hugger,” he’s now a…
I was wondering why Mexicans in Chicago are meaner than Mexicans in California? I love my Mexican brothers and sisters in California (I’m from Cali) but they are the biggest pendejos in Chicago! Does cold weather make Mexicans pissed-off? And why do Mexican women like to ram white girls with…
If you need an explanation as to why birtherism is alive and well in Arizona, just spend a little time with the alter kocker kooks who regularly attend meetings of Mesa’s Red Mountain Tea Party, the epicenter of far-right extremism in the Valley of the Sun. Each week in the…
Marijuana keeps Craig Rodgers alive. With his muscular physique and energetic, fast-talking personality, the 36-year-old Las Vegas resident seems the epitome of health — except for the banana-size scar on the left side of his head. Rodgers was on a good career track as a trade-show organizer until 2006, when…
