Anyone who’s been to the Dumpster…er, “Waste Management” Open golf tournament knows that one of the more irritating parts of the experience is figuring out what to do with your cell phone — more specifically, how to sneak it in.Starting this year, however, the tournament’s no cell-phone policy is no…
Late last year, we published a story about a guy known as “Raven,” a mentally ill man who had been living for more than a year in a central Phoenix park. The piece described how several of Raven’s “neighbors,” folks who live in the area around the big park, had…
The Dysart Unified School District has been slapped with a lawsuit by a local evangelical group over a policy that bans the distribution of fliers with a religious message.Dysart, which serves Surprise and El Mirage, allows other community groups to pass out fliers to students while unconstitutionally discriminating against religious…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent and a corrections officer with the Arizona Department of Correction were arrested yesterday on charges that they helped a drug trafficking organization (DTO) smuggle drugs into the United States.Ivhan Herrera-Chiang, 29, a U.S. Border Patrol agent stationed in Yuma, and Michael Lopez-Garcia, 28, a corrections…
Remember when on Wednesday the Internet search engine Google protested Congress’ attempt to “censor the web” via-the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) by participating in a purely symbolic “black out” with several other big-time websites?About that…We’ve come to find out that on the same day Google was (ahem) fighting for…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his campaign guru Chad Willems have done their best to suggest Arpaio has $6 million in the bank, ready to go for the sheriff’s 2012 re-election campaign.In September, Arizona Republic columnist E.J. Montini reported that, “Arpaio says that he has collected $6 million for his own…
Pierre Newton may have had a “career” game last night up in Boulder, hitting a late three-pointer for the ASU men’s basketball team near the end of a Pac-12 contest against Colorado. The problem for the Sun Devils was that Newton was in the game at all. He is a…
Former Congressman Matt Salmon wants to be a congressman again. He’s currently running in District 6 — and apparently is in the process of transforming from lobbyist to cowboy to appeal to the District’s far-right-wing electorate as he fights his way through a GOP primary with former Arizona House Speaker…
Former presidential candidate Rick Perry pulled the plug on his failed campaign yesterday, which is the second time in two presidential elections that a candidate with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s backing failed to make it out of a GOP primary.As Valley attorney Chad Snow commented on our post yesterday…
Phoenix police officials should have more closely examined allegations made by police Sergeant Phil Roberts about falsified border-related kidnapping statistics before deciding to investigate him for making those claims, according to a federal investigative report obtained by New Times. That message, found in a 33-page report by the U.S. Office…
He supports legalizing marijuana, considers himself a civil libertarian, has had nice things to say about the Occupy movement, and recently filed paperwork in Pinal County to run for Sheriff as a Democrat.One little speed bump: He also happens to be the best known neo-Nazi in Arizona and has referred…
There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but 24-year-old Russell Hofstad only needed one — with a butcher’s knife…in a warehouse/concert venue…that he broke into. Similarly, there could be several reasons to skin a cat. Hofstad’s: he was hungry.According to court records obtained by New Times, police…
Fagala-phobic Arizona Congressman Trent Franks is obnoxiously conservative. Aside from thinking race/gender-based abortions are a legitimate problem in the United States (which it’s not), he thinks letting gay people tie the knot “literally is a threat to the nation’s survival” because it threatens the sanctity of traditional marriage.Cheating on your…
Get ready, Arizona: another John McCain-esque “build the danged fence” campaign ad is apparently on the horizon –this time, compliments of Congressional candidate Matt Salmon.GOP sources tell New Times Salmon headed down to the border last week to shoot an ad for his District 6 Congressional campaign. Apparently, he found…
If you happen to be running for president, do yourself a favor and avoid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio like grim death — for the second time in two presidential elections, Arpaio’s horse in the race has crashed and burned.Just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Texas Governor…
Steve Nash, rumored to be a free-agent target of the New York Knicks in the upcoming offseason, scored 26 points against the Knicks on Wednesday night in New York as the Phoenix Suns broke a five-game losing streak. The 91-88 final score extended the struggling Knicks’ losing skid to four…
President Barack Obama will be in Arizona on January 25 as part of a five-state swing across states Democrats feel are in play for the president in this year’s election.During his three-day, post-State of the Union trip, Obama also will visit Michigan, Colorado, Iowa, and Nevada — all states Dems…
I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but the ascendancy of Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney must be addressed — namely, that he’s half-Mexican. The lamestream media is treating this as a revelation — never mind that…
MENTALLY SPEAKING Those who’ve overcome: In the immediate aftermath of the attack [in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner], 50 percent of Americans saw it as the result of failure in the mental-[healthcare] system, not simply mental illness. [In its “Shadow Dwellers” series published last year], New Times noted that six…
In 2005, during an otherwise typical tour of his West Phoenix district, then-Councilman Claude Mattox turned to a City Hall reporter and casually announced that Maryvale, once a premier master-planned community, used to be nice “until the illegals moved in.” It was the kind of statement from a politician that…
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has come and gone. Just another day off for many. For others, a time of reflection. We all know that enemies of MLK Day, in Arizona and elsewhere, did not want King’s or African Americans’ struggle for civil rights in this county honored. Former…
Detectives from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office are heading to Santa Clara, California this afternoon, where they plan to serve a search warrant at Google headquarters to try and determine who’s responsible for death threats made against Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a website that glorifies killing cops.It’s a pretty tasteless…
