Though the Beasts of the East (Miami Heat and Boston Celtics) have been stealing most of the headlines in this early part of the NBA season, the Atlanta Hawks went into yesterday’s game against the Phoenix Suns without a loss. That streak ended, as the Suns held on down the…
The Phoenix Coyotes are off to a rough start this season and this past weekend didn’t help. The Coyotes dropped two games over the weekend — one to the Dallas Stars, and one to the Pittsburgh Penguins — and penalties were a big factor.On Friday, the Coyotes were in Dallas…
There is a silver lining to the Arizona Cardinals 27-24 overtime loss to Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings — sure, for the second week in a row they blew a lead in the fourth quarter, but, for the first time all season, the man coach Ken Whisenhunt chose to…
Arizona’s medical marijuana proposition fared poorly in vote counts over the weekend, reversing the temporary positive trend we wrote about on Thursday. The numbers now stand at 773,555 against, and 766, 923 for Proposition 203, for a difference of 6,632. Election officials must have encountered a random pocket support on…
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The Arizona Cardinals will be in Minnesota this weekend to take on Brett Favre and the Vikings, and, as has been the case all season for the Cards, the quarterback situation remains dire.Too bad for the Cards, quarterback is a pretty important position and they don’t have one — that…
In wake of several incidents that have strained the relationship between the Phoenix Police Department and the community, the department announced today that several changes will be made in one its most trouble-plagued precincts.Whenever there’s a problem regarding the Phoenix PD, it seems to almost always have something to do…
I’ve written on numerous occasions about state Senator Russell Pearce’s ongoing battle with the truth, whether it’s denying his past friendship with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, or spewing false stats about illegal immigrants. But misleading his fellow Senate Republicans? That’s the implication given by the report above from Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik for his “Sunday…
Picture your morning routine. Now picture it with a naked meth-head yelling and banging on the front door of your house. That’s what some people in a Surprise neighborhood woke up to last week, and, needless to say, the man was arrested.Surprise police got a call just before 8 a.m…
This week’s New Times feature about the imminent retirement of Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash has received a lot of attention from local — and national — news outlets. A lot of people are saying the story is a hoax. But for many Suns fans, the news that their…
Since our earlier post about MSNBC’s most obnoxious liberal commentator, Keith Olbermann, and some controversial donations he made to the campaigns of two Arizona Congressional candidates, MSNBC has suspended the Edward Murrow wannabe indefinitely and without pay.News of Olbermann’s suspension came in a one-sentence statement from MSNBC TV President Phil…
When inmates escape from prison, mobilizing thousands of people to track down the escapees costs money, and Mohave County, apparently, doesn’t want to pick up the tab for its part in fixing the prison’s blunder.You may recall, three inmates escaped from the Kingman Prison last summer, and now, the county…
Pearce goes ballistic when he’s confronted by some of those he’s victimized Check out this priceless video, a link to which was sent to me by Carmen Cornejo, executive director of CADENA, an Arizona group of professors and professionals who lobby for the DREAM Act. That’s the proposed legislation that…
Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann apparently took a few minutes away from ripping off Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow to drop some cash on a couple of Arizona’s Democratic Congressional candidates. Only problem is he may have violated NBC’s ethics policies in doing so.Olbermann acknowledged donating money to the…
Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, arrested a man on Tuesday suspected of committing armed robbery in Tempe. The robbery happened on October 17 — which happens to be same day Arizona State University student Zachary Marco was murdered, and police have a few questions for the alleged thug.Tempe police were…
Proposition 203 seems to be gaining an edge as officials continue to count votes.The ballot measure that would legalize medical marijuana in Arizona was about 6,500 votes behind as of last night.It’s closing the gap: The difference now is only 3,870 votes…
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Bieber Fever: either you got it or you don’t. A Surprise mom seems to be burnin’ up with the affliction because she banned her 12-year-old son from dressing as a “gay Justin Bieber” for Halloween. He wasn’t happy, and, in a very un-Bieber-like move — responded by pulling a knife…
Lester Pearce, the Justice of the Peace for the North Mesa precinct (and brother of State Senator Russell Pearce), has a lot of interesting ideas about the U.S. Constitution. And the former lawmaker, who’s poised to become the next presiding judge of the justice courts, has been taking those ideas on tour. He taught…
This week’s New Times feature, Setting Sun, about Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash’s imminent departure from the team to try his hand at Canadian politics, has skeptics doubting whether the story is true.Well, we got video of Nash admitting he wants to be the Canadian prime minister, which should…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Rea has denied Judicial Watch, a conservative think tank, access to two years’ worth of security-detail logs kept by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s bodyguards.Judicial Watch said it was considering its next steps, and that it would be a few days before they reach a…
Strip poker can be a fun party game when played by visually — and age — appropriate gamblers. It’s a problem, however, when one of those playing is a preacher — it’s an even bigger problem when the only other player is a 14-year-old boy.The former preacher at a Jehovah’s…
