Former Tucson City Councilman (if you ask him “vice mayor”) Rodney Glassman is off to a sluggish start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.His former colleagues are bashing him — hard — and people on his own campaign have abandoned ship because they aren’t happy with how he…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
It’s not looking good for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. As of the end of today’s count of the remaining ballots, state Schools Superintendent Tom Horne had expanded his lead of about 400 votes from yesterday to 1,073. This, in the GOP nod for state Attorney General. According to the…
News release from county just in: 2010 PRIMARY ELECTION RESULTS August 26, 2010, 4:25PM, Phoenix, AZ – Maricopa County Recorder, Helen Purcell, says every effort is being made to complete final counting for the August 24 Primary Election by Saturday, August 28, 2010. “We’ve tabulated 57,231 early ballots today. We…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman certainly isn’t getting off to a good start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.Last week New Times reported that several of Glassman’s staffers had quit because they were unhappy with how the candidate treated people working on the campaign. And today one of…
If you don’t like rules, you shouldn’t have moved in. That’s the message, roughly speaking, from a Laveen homeowner’s association in regards to its ban on the historical, “Don’t Tread on Me” Gadsden flag. Following our article yesterday about Andy McDonel, the non-Tea-Party member who likes flying the snake, we received an open…
The end of his brief brush with freedom and being away from the blood-related Bonnie to his Clyde appear to be taking a toll on Arizona’s most infamous prison escapee.After being captured last week and placed in solitary confinement, John McCluskey tried to kill himself on Tuesday and jail officials…
The leader of the “RIP Crew,” a group of thugs involved in the illegal-gun and drug business, was sentenced to federal prison on Tuesday.A federal judge handed down a sentence of 15 years in federal prison for 30-year-old Juan Victor Munoz, a convicted felon, for his role in the sale…
You may be familiar with Dr. Michael Brown, the founder of the Brown Hand Center. He’s the Houston-based doctor who runs that god-awful ad here in Phoenix featuring him, his way-too-hot-for-him wife, and his five kids. The ad ends with his young daughter saying “daddy’s baby girl.” It’s adorable, but…
The Arizona Cardinals and NFL Management Council filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against former Cards player Calvin Pace, demanding he pay $2.8 million for lost time during the 2005 season. The lawsuit, filed in U.S District Court in Arizona, states that Pace “severely injured his arm while wrestling with a friend”…
As is always the case, we must issue the following disclaimer before writing anything about the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club: The purpose of this article is not to provide a forum for Hells Angels and their enemies to bicker over who is a child molester, who beats women, and who…
As we sat at former Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth’s primary night headquarters, we found it rather odd that his opponent, Senator John McCain, gave his victory speech before Hayworth showed up to concede — there was a reason.Traditionally, the loser of an election calls the winner to concede and offer…
Stephen Drew went 4-4 and hit two home runs Wednesday night in San Diego. And that’s where the good news ends for the Arizona Diamondbacks, who lost 9-3 to the Padres, extending the Pads’ NL West lead to 6.5 games and giving them the best record in the National League…
It’s still officially unofficial. The GOP primary for attorney general is still undecided and will likely remain so until at least tomorrow.As of last night, Tom Horne has a 419-vote lead over Andrew Thomas in the race with about 100,000 votes left uncounted.The majority of the uncounted votes come from…
Oye, I’m a Mexican con un pie aquí y un pie allá, and I have to admit that it is difficult to be a Mexican these days. I’d like to make the argument that it is one of the worst times ever to be a Mexican. I even think it…
HATE-MONGERS Joe’s exploits are worsening the problem: What your story drives home is how easily these human-smuggling operations fly under the radar of law enforcement. I dare say Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is these smugglers’ BFF, because while he’s out rounding up maids, gardeners, and brown-skinned U.S. citizens, the…
As evening falls on southern Mexico, Sarah (not her real name) is shopping at a fruit market a block from her house. It is Friday, and her father, an investigator for the State Judicial Police, is home relaxing on his night off. Wearing blue jeans and an unbuttoned shirt, he…
ROACH MOTEL Dead rats in the evening slop. Cells so full of cockroaches that you sleep in a mass of them. No air-conditioning. Overcrowding. A lack of guards to watch the inmates. Violence and mayhem. White supremacists. And enough drugs to slake the appetites of Hermann Goering and Aleister Crowley,…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
A Laveen homeowner’s association is wrong to prohibit the historic Gadsden flag from flying in front of a home, an ACLU representative says. “We believe that (HOAs) don’t have the power to hijack people’s free speech rights,” says Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Arizona…
The U.S. Department of Justice has given Sheriff Joe Arpaio yet another deadline in its ongoing civil rights investigation of his office: August 27.In a lengthy letter from DOJ attorney Judy Preston to Arpaio’s D.C. mouthpiece Robert Driscoll, Preston details what the DOJ told Driscoll it wants from the MCSO…
About 12,000 provisional ballots were amassed today at the Maricopa County Elections department, officials say, bringing the total number of uncounted votes in Tuesday’s primary to at least 133,000. The provisional ballots are from voters who didn’t have proper identification at the polls, recently moved or had some other minor technical…
