Less than 24 hours before primary voters took to the polls, former Vice President Dan Quayle weighed in on attacks on his son Ben, who, in case you didn’t know, is running for Congress in Arizona’s Third District.In an email sent last night to supporters, the elder Quayle made a…
We’ve heard of some stupid places to stash weed but a Mesa mom’s stash spot might be the dumbest. She hid it under her baby’s bassinet.Not only is there the dangerous risk that the baby gets into the weed and possibly ingests some, but if cops find weed hidden near…
Primary day is finally upon us, folks, and we’re a little bummed out. The daily bickering between candidates and the cruel-but-entertaining political attacks will be coming to an end.We’ve been blessed with some fairly ugly campaigns this primary season, which have only been made better by the fact that those…
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:…
In order to give candidates equal time following our earlier post, Five Reasons to Vote for J.D. Hayworth for Senate, we thought we’d share a few things about John McCain that may be helpful to know when you go to the polls tomorrow.In our Hayworth post, we said we wouldn’t…
After months of watching J.D. Hayworth make a complete ass out of himself soul searching, we at New Times feel we’ve been a little hard on the Senate hopeful. Sure, he’s a little brash, slightly arrogant, and every time he opens his mouth we feel like were being lied to,…
State prosecutors today filed a motion to dismiss their organized-crime case against Mario de la Fuente Mix, the son of Mexican media tycoon Mario de la Fuente Manriquez. Mix and his father, who have homes in Arizona and Mexico, have been out on bail since their arrests earlier this year as part of…
Attention readers: We have something to discuss. New Times has a new commenting system called “Disqus.” I can practically hear your brains churning with wonder as to what it does other than provide a public forum for discussion and helpful insights (read: call James King a douche). With this new…
In a refreshing and unexpected turn, and after much reflection, we’ve come up with a list of ten reasons you should vote for Andrew Thomas for Arizona Attorney General in tomorrow’s GOP primary. Yes, you read that right. Sort of. 1. If elected, Thomas may finally be able to realize his dream of…
Robert Mackley was counting the number of bee-sting marks on his hand the other day, just to help the time go by. He got to 90 on one hand, before he got to the wrist. The 26-year-old Tucson rock climber is still recuperating from a nightmare-inspiring, August 10 attack by “killer”…
For the second time in less than a month a person was hit by a train in Flagstaff. And, for the second time in less than a month, a person has died after being hit by a train in Flagstaff.The latest casualty of the Flagstaff railroad tracks is 57-year-old John…
It seemed only a matter of time before authorities in New Mexico charged two Arizona prison escapees, and the woman who helped them escape, with the murder of an Oklahoma couple who were found murdered in a camper in earlier this month. Today, it happened.Federal prosecutors in New Mexico have…
As more and more media outlets continue to write the political obituary of Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, the political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC) continues to hit the phones in support of Hayworth.A little background: ALIPAC got some heat earlier this year for having the words “wetback,” “taco…
About half of the early ballots sent out to potential voters in Maricopa County have been returned as of this morning, election officials say. “We’re not anticipating a lower-than-normal percentage of returns,” says Mark Valenzuela, county assistant elections director. About 313,000 of the roughly 600,000 early ballots mailed to voters this election…
Disclaimer: the intention of this post is not to create a forum for biker gangs and their enemies to bicker about who the bigger pedophile/ meth heads are — as has almost always been the case whenever we post anything about the Hells Angels.Check it out here…and here…and once again…
Congressional candidate Steve Moak has finally responded to questions posed to him last week by one of his opponents in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.In short, Moak never disclosed a conflict of interest to the IRS when a not-for-profit anti-drug charity he founded was pushing the drug tests produced…
Here we are: It’s a day before the 10 candidates in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary will learn their fate and it seems, barring some late-round uppercut, all the big punches have been thrown.In particular, two candidates, who are arguably leading the race, have received the brunt of the…
Budweiser, which in 2008 was bought out by a Belgian beer giant to form Anheuser-Busch InBev, has spent millions on advertising to the Latino market. According to a 2009 article in Hispanic Market Weekly, the company spent more than $21 million in the first half of 2008 alone on Spanish…
Dougherty’s campaign spot, running this weekendI like both Randy Parraz and John Dougherty in the Dems’ primary for U.S. Senate. I wish I could vote for both of them, to be honest. Both are very different kinds of candidates. And neither one is a traditional politician. Not by a long…
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:…
Andy Kunasek released one page of a transcript to New Times today that he believes shows the attempt by a prosecutor to “extort” him as part of a political power play. Kunasek says he’s not ready to release the entire transcript of the “free talk” he had earlier this year…
This is a desert. Nobody likes to see a billion gallons of water flushed down a hole in the middle of summer, which is what happened July 20 after one Tempe Town Lake’s inflatable dams popped. But let’s keep this in perspective, folks — something today’s Arizona Republic article about…
