Not all of the water from all of the jugs placed in the desert by activists from groups like No More Deaths can wipe clean the blood of migrants from President Barack Obama’s hands.What other conclusion can be drawn from the news from Tucson advocacy group Derechos Humanos that the…
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: Up on the Sun: The Brides of March, Carnival, Arizona Aloha Festival and Devoured Over the Weekend…
Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee is a punk.In the third inning of today’s spring training game with Arizona Diamondbacks, Lee threw two pitches at the head of D-backs catcher Chris Snyder — missing both times — leading to a bench-clearing backlash between the two squads, which netted no punches and…
Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth says the only way to keep a man from marrying a horse is through a federal marriage amendment.Naturally, we can think of several other snafus that might keep a man from marrying a horse — namely a horse’s inability to speak or sign a marriage license (basic…
Two weeks ago, Pima County Superior Court Judge John Leonardo issued a scathing ruling against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas — kicking him off the prosecution of County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and dismissing the charges against Wilcox to boot.That decision was a complete excoriation of Thomas’ attempts to prosecute…
Rather than face his victim’s families in Arizona’s death chamber, a death-row inmate took the easy way out and did something the state has been trying to do since 1997: end his life.Department of Corrections officials say 46-year-old James Adams was found hanging lifeless in his cell yesterday at 3:30 yesterday afternoon at the Browning Unit,…
Maricopa County’s brown-bashing sheriff, Joe Arpaio, is still considering a run for governor, and as luck should have it, he’s got a super-secret plan to help ease the state out of its budget woes.He says we’ll have to wait for him to announce his candidacy before he dazzles us all…
Jason Rose, the high-powered public-relations guru, who’s handled everyone from Joe Arpaio to Phil Gordon, is jumping ship on the J.D. Hayworth Senate campaign because Hayworth has failed to enter a contract with Rose’s firm.Rose tells New Times that his firm began working for Hayworth without a contract out of…
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers HornsbySpring has sprung, so here is your guide to today’s spring training games:…
It’s impossible to lose a hockey game if the other team is unable to — as the saying goes — put the biscuit in the basket. That being the case, having Phoenix Coyotes net-minder Ilya Bryzgalov between the pipes is an asset any team would be happy to have. In…
The Phoenix Suns are 2-2 on their seven-game homestand, and now find themselves with the sixth seed in the Western Conference playoffs after splitting a pair of weekend games. After six days, the Suns jumped out to a seven-point first-quarter lead against the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday, only to let…
Home Bible studies have been banned in Gilbert. An ordinance that forbids Gilbert churches from having potlucks or home Bible studies was enforced on the Oasis of the Truth Church, which received a cease-and-desist order after holding Bible studies at several different homes. The church has filed an appeal, calling…
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: Feathered Bastard: Jan Brewer Hides, as Kirk Adams Gets Cornered by Randy Parraz and Jen Allen…
Remember the big news yesterday when Andy Thomas and Joe Arpaio claimed “victory” for convincing the U.S. Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section to investigate myriad claims they’ve been making about alleged “corruption” in Maricopa County? It should come as no shock that the spin, as manufactured by Joe and…
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do: I stare out the window and wait for spring.” — Rogers HornsbySpring has sprung, so here is your guide to this weekend’s spring training games:…
The latest controversy surrounding the endorsement of ex-Congressman J.D. Hayworth by the controversial Americans for Legal Immigration (ALIPAC), now involves another Hispanic Republican group, this one with ties to Sheriff Joe Arpaio and to a blog allegedly written by a Maricopa County prosecutor.The American Post Gazette, an ultra-conservative blog linked to Andrew Thomas’ office, published…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants to run as a publicly funded candidate for governor, and he claims today that he’s got everything he needs to do it.Goddard announced that he has received the 5,000 $5 donations and the 8,000 petition signatures needed to qualify as a publicly funded candidate…
The search of a San Antonio, Texas, landfill for the remains of baby Gabriel Johnson was called off today after investigators were unable to find any clues suggesting the baby was there.Authorities spent 16 days combing through 4,200 tons of trash at the Tessman Road Landfill, where they believed the…
William Gheen, organizer of the controversial Americans for Legal Immigration, is calling on Senator John McCain to apologize for a “smear campaign” his campaign has waged, suggesting the group has racist leanings.This is the same guy who just yesterday told New Times he has used the term “wetback” to describe Mexicans in…
They got ’em.Police in Navajo County have two men in custody they believe are responsible for a string of bank robberies stretching across four states, including Arizona.Police believe the “High Country Bandits,” as the pair were dubbed by the FBI’s bandit-naming department, are responsible for 16 bank robberies in Arizona,…
As we predicted, it would take an army to keep an old camera-hound like Sheriff Joe Arpaio from a network television camera in his county, and last night’s episode of Police Women of Maricopa County proved exactly that. Joe made a cameo at the end of last night’s show — for…
During this past Wednesday’s rally against state Senator Russell Pearce’s new apartheid-like bill SB 1070/HB 2632, I remained with the mass of the protesters, while a small contingent of demonstration leaders went into the Capitol’s Executive Tower and up to the 9th Floor to try and meet with Governor Jan…
