It’s been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne’s close friend Carmen Chenal’s problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies…
If you’re not a fan of looking out of the windshield while driving, we’ve got some good news — the Arizona House voted down a bill that would outlaw texting and driving.Municipal ordinances still apply — like Phoenix’s rarely used ordinance against texting and driving — but Arizona’s representatives have…
Republican Wendy Rogers — who lost her bid for a State Senate seat in 2010 — made it official today that she’s joining the Congressional race in Arizona’s newly formed Ninth District.Rogers joins what’s becoming an increasingly populated field of candidates, which already includes Republicans Don Stapley, Travis Grantham, and…
Three members of an Iraqi family living in Phoenix pleaded not guilty today to assault charges, stemming from allegedly beating another family member for reasons such as refusing an arranged marriage, or because she was talking to a boy.Yusra Farhan, 50, and Mohammed Altameemi, 45, both pleaded not guilty to…
Arizona State’s basketball team (the guy’s version) has been ranked in the lower realms of all Division I programs this season, and yesterday afternoon’s game in Tempe against the Arizona Wildcats had the makings of a butt-whipping–for the Cats. Most of those geeks who study the “Bubble” as if…
About a month ago, police arrested a sixth suspect in connection with the murders of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro, as well as Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet, and with those arrests came a heavily redacted police report.Now, Jerry Cobb, spokesman for the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, tells New…
For the low price of $9.99, you can obtain your own copy of an e-book that’s billed as “a law enforcement investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate.The authors happen to be Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Posse “lead investigator” Mike Zullo and notorious “birther” Jerome Corsi.The forward, unsurprisingly, is…
Tea Party princess Michelle Ugenti has a mouth on her, that’s for sure. The Republican state House Representative and former real-estate peddler was elected to represent District 8 voters in 2010, largely with the assistance of Clean Elections funding and the campaign hackery of Clean Elections-parasite Constantin Querard.And what has Clean…
Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona’s ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly “dangerous” books by Latino authors from Tucson classrooms.This peculiar mix of…
A truckload of paperwork was filed today in the racial profiling lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office, including succinct accounts of the allegations and responses by both sides.The case involves several plaintiffs, including immigrant Jose Ortega Melendres, but was expanded in a ruling by federal judge…
The National Football League announced today that a couple dozen defensive players on the New Orleans Saints maintained a player-funded “bounty” system, which involved getting paid for injuring opposing players.Hits on former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner and former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Brett Favre sparked the investigation, NFL Commissioner Roger…
According to a Glendale police officer, he found 10 grams of meth in a car being driven by the gentleman to our right.In court documents obtained by New Times, the officer says he was driving the opposite direction of a car on 59th Avenue being driven by 31-year-old Moses Ulloa.Police…
In less than a year, KPHO — always “Telling it Like it is” — has managed to run three stories about chupacabra sightings.Now the local news station is tackling bigger and badder mythical beasts, hooking up with the Navajo Nation Rangers to check out “investigative reports” of other creatures that…
As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic rage.Breitbart’s…
New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer last week, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070. Schumer’s office said the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law to be…
Steve Nash fared far better during Thursday night’s game then he did in his five minutes of meager court time in last weekend’s All-Star Game. The 38-year-old Suns captain (who’s reportedly being sought by the Dallas Mavericks and two other teams per the latest trade scuttlebutt) earned a double-double with…
As you may have heard, it’s 2012, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.It’s the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to…
Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don’t apply to him. That’s been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last year’s recall…
Conservative writer Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at the age of 43, and according to Jerome Corsi, Breitbart’s last interview could have been with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Corsi, however, is a conspiracy-theorist extraordinaire who doesn’t always tell the truth.If he is to be believed (at least on this…
We actually looked at the report given out today during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he believes President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, and there is a grand total of zero new information in it.In fact, the report prepared by Mara Zebest — who was at the…
There you have it — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.Yes, the year is 2012, and yes, New Times and several dozen other media outlets just listened to more than two hours of…
Nativist extremist and documented anti-Semite Glenn Spencer spoke today at the state Senate Border Security, Federalism, and States’ Rights Committee, a seriously loony legislative panel chaired by crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Democratic state Senators Steve Gallardo and Robert Meza walked out of the committee in protest as soon as…
