We’ve asked before, but we gotta ask again because publicist extraordinaire Jason Rose hit another skid.Is the guru losing his mojo? A campaign run by the Policy Development Group last spring to incorporate a small community near the Grand Canyon so artfully defeated Rose — who was running the opposition…
The Arrogant Butcher, downtown’s newest dining spot, has been running a straw poll to gauge who might be Phoenix’s next mayor.The results for Week One are in, and former Deputy Attorney General and Councilman Greg Stanton is leading the pack. Stanton: 168 Councilman Claude Mattox: 126 Councilwoman Peggy Neely: 78…
The Arizona Republic yesterday got the scoop that several Maricopa County employees are getting fussy over having to submit to saliva swabs for nicotine analysis to prove that they don’t use tobacco products in order to be eligible for lower insurance premiums than non-tobbacco using employees.According the Republic, the difference…
An all-access pass. That’s what aging action film stud Steven Seagal, star of the cheesy A&E series Steven Seagal: Lawman gets in his contract with Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In fact, Seagal may have better access than the U.S. Department of Justice, which is still investigating the MCSO for alleged civil…
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The man pictured is 71-year-old Thomas Harrell, and he doesn’t like wearing clothes, which proved to be a problem when two young girls walked by the garage of his Surprise home Saturday night.According to police, the girls, ages 12 and 13, walked by about 8 p.m., and there he was…
A panel of independent experts charged with reviewing Phoenix’s kidnapping statistics will be headed by Karen Thoreson, president of Alliance for Innovation. The other members are retired FBI Agent Larry McCormick, retired Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Cecil Patterson, retired Arizona Supreme Court Justice Michael D. Ryan and Michael White,…
Thursday is St. Patrick’s Day, which means one thing: people are gonna get wasted. Stupid people are gonna get wasted and then try to drive home. Aside from potentially killing someone, cops are going to be everywhere looking for idiots driving drunk, so don’t do it — call AAA Arizona.Not…
As New Times noted last week, it was only a matter of time before Senate Majority leader Scott Bundgaard got the boot from his leadership position, and today it happened.Senate sources confirm to New Times that Republicans voted to remove Bundgaard from his leadership spot over last month’s scuffle with the…
The Tombstone man arrested last week after revealing to police that he knew his mother’s dead body had been sitting in her house for more than a year won’t be charged with a crime, authorities in Cochise County announced yesterday.Timothy Fattig was arrested last week on suspicion of negligent homicide after…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t admit any wrongdoing in his campaign mailer attacks on former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley during last year’s special election for county attorney, but he will pay $76,000 to make the problem go away.The $76,000 is a nice chunk of change — even for…
Congressman Jeff Flake’s bid to become Senator Jeff Flake is picking up steam — and GOP senators are beginning to take notice, including Utah Senator Mike Lee, who endorsed Flake’s candidacy today. “Jeff Flake’s record on fiscal conservatism speaks for itself,” Lee says in a statement. “He was offering legislation…
A family fight in Phoenix turned deadly last night when an 18-year-old man visiting the Valley from Detroit fatally shot a woman and wounded two others, including his stepfather.About 10 p.m. yesterday, the unidentified suspect and his 63-year-old stepfather got into an argument in their apartment near 12th Street and…
The Phoenix Suns’ game last night was a thriller — for the last few minutes or so, anyway. The rest of the 95-93 loss to the Houston Rockets was another listless effort from a bad team that looks less like a contender with each passing game. Planet Orange started slow,…
State Senate Republicans are expected to revisit the Scott Bundgaard fiasco this morning, and New Times’ sources say there’s no chance of the majority leader escapes the meeting with the title of “majority leader.”However, that was before Bundgaard apparently passed a lie- detector test that his lawyer claims verifies his…
So here’s a little round-up of news related to everyone’s favorite neo-Nazi hugger, state Senate President Russell Pearce.First, regarding the dueling recalls of Pearce underway in Legislative District 18: DeeDee Blase of the Libertarian/Somos Republicans effort Arizonans for a Better Government recently issued a statement regarding the rival recall group…
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The Peoria Police Department needs the public’s help in tracking down a man they say stole a few Heinekens from a Circle K convenience store last night.According to police, the thief stole two 12-packs of Heineken from a Circle K near 87th Avenue and Bell Road. During the heist, a…
Two things you may want to consider if you know Qui Tu Truong, the man living in Phoenix who allegedly attacked two people with a meat cleaver over the weekend: don’t talk about him at work, and don’t get him fired.Truong was arrested on Saturday after breaking into the home…
You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist “organization” American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he’s made over the years. Not to mention that he was once…
A settlement’s been reached in a lawsuit filed by the Goldwater Institute on behalf of a Coconino County woman who was told in 2010 by election officials that her Tea Party T-shirts were not allowed in polling places. Thanks to the settlement, as long as the Tea Party isn’t an…
A Phoenix music teacher was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to charges that he used Craigslist to solicit sex with a dog.Patrick Trejo, a 25-year-old music teacher at Raul H. Castro Middle School in Phoenix, was arrested last month after an investigation by…
