On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer, in honor of her trip to Washington for SB 1070’s day before the Supreme Court.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve…
A crowd assembled at the Arizona Capitol today to put legislators on notice that they’re pissed. About 500 people voiced outrage toward recent laws passed in Arizona and around the county that restrict women’s health and reproductive rights. AZ Unite Women organized the event in response to what’s been coined “the war on women.”…
Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…
In 2002, Scottsdale resident Steven Dyer was to face charges of molesting two boys. He said no thanks and went to Canada instead.While he was gone, a court convicted him on a dozen counts of sexual conduct with a minor, which didn’t mean much until he was caught in Canada…
U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thinking Cardon’s the latest politician to fudge the numbers on a social media website in the name of popularity.Similar to…
If Warren Jeffs — pedophile/leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — had any marbles left when he was sent to prison, he just lost the rest of them.Jeffs, who’s in prison for sexually assaulting two underage “brides,” wrote a petition to the Texas Court…
Lots of response to this week’s cover story on Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, including a bunch of e-mails from folks who were appalled that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu failed to “man up” and return a phone call from his then-close colleague, Dever, in late February after the proverbial…
If you trust public-opinion polling, then Arizonans aren’t the hard-asses about illegal immigration that they’re portrayed to be.According to a new poll from the Merrill/Morrison Institute — which found earlier in the week that the race between President Obama and eventual GOP nominee Mitt Romney is a “toss up” in…
Back in 1993, Mark Mitchell — who’s running for mayor of Tempe — was involved in an incident with police at a Mill Avenue bar.Mitchell’s opponent in the mayoral race, Michael Monti, is now making it a campaign issue (in 2012), claiming Mitchell’s “distort[ing] the truth” about what happened.It boils…
Governor Jan Brewer was in Washington this week to defend the controversial immigration law known as SB 1070 — or as Brewer called it, a trip to “defend our state against President Obama, Eric Holder and the Justice Department.”Brewer’s been taking full advantage of 1070’s date with the Supreme Court,…
With the 13th overall pick in the 2012 NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals selected Notre Dame wide receiver Michael Floyd.Now that we presume everyone’s done bitching about Peyton Manning, the Valley can scrutinize its new wide receiver for the annual way-before-the-season football banter.Floyd was the second receiver taken in the…
While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…
Less than four hours after Congressman Ben Quayle let New Times know he’d be introducing an amendment to address privacy concerns in the latest controversial Internet-related bill, he did — and it passed less than an hour ago.Quayle’s amendment to address privacy concerns in the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection…
UPDATE 4/26: The settlement has been approved, according to the AP.UPDATE: Judge Wake issued an order saying the parties will meet on Monday to discuss moving the trial date to the week after the board of supervisors meeting.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced today that lawyers agreed to a $175,000…
This caught our attention on a recent visit to downtown Phoenix locales. Several of the signs were taped to a wall on West Adams Street, just north of the Wells Fargo Plaza…
The former head of the Mesa Police Association, Javier Fabian Cota, accuses San Diego police in a federal lawsuit of violating his rights during a June 4 arrest for alleged public drunkenness.Cota’s story of gettomg thrown in a drunk tank that night, which resulted in a demotion and pay cut…
The picture above was an interesting sighting at the corner of Baseline and McClintock in Tempe today. As you can see, “your” cops apparently support Michael Monti for Tempe mayor.That’s interesting, seeing as it was just a few weeks ago that a Monti fan complained that “your” firefighters support Mark Mitchell…
A new report from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says that 68,000 guns seized by Mexico in recent years came from the United States.But an ATF official in Washington D.C. admits the agency has no idea how many guns Mexico seizes overall, or whether the 68,000…
Amid heavy dissent from the public over Arizona’s bill allowing employers to drop coverage for contraception in their health care plans if they have “religious objections,” House Bill 2625 was voted down by the Senate late last month.Thanks to those gems of procedure in the Arizona Legislature, Senators moved to…
After the bills known as “SOPA” and “PIPA” were shelved amid some mass protests from online communities, there’s a new bill in Congress that has the Internet riled up — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or “CISPA.”The bill has been referred to numerous times as being “worse than…
Added to the running list of places not to keep babies — the camper to a truck parked outside a Peoria McDonald’s.Peoria police say an anonymous tipster led them to an “extremely unhealthy” 3-month-old yougnster in the back of the truck, at the McD’s near Thunderbird and Loop 101.If you…
SB 1070 got its (nth) day in court yesterday, with oral arguments being heard over the immigration law in the highest court of the land.Check out Stephen Lemons’ analysis on the fate of 1070.The last time we polled our readers about what the Supreme Court would do with the law,…
