Chicanos Por La Causa officials and their supporters held a press conference today to blast the MCSO’s recent day-long raid on CPLC’s headquarters in Phoenix. CPLC CEO Edmundo Hidalgo and attorney Danny Ortega, Board Chair of the National Council of La Raza, were joined by the leaders of organizations such…
The sale of the East Valley Tribune to 13th Street Media, the publisher of the weekly Tucson Explorer newspaper, won’t be finalized until after the first of the year. However, the Valley’s Pulitzer-winning, semi-daily paper and its Web site will continue past a December 31 deadline announced last month, says Bob Emmers, spokesman for California-based Freedom Communications,…
In the past, criminal street gangs have used names that strike fear in the hearts of their rivals. The Bloods, the Crips, the Jets, the Sharks — all have an intimidating connotation.As for Scottsdale’s latest group of thugs — busted today as part of the Department of Public Safety’s “Operation…
Though I didn’t make Dennis Burke’s swearing in as the new U.S. Attorney for Arizona yesterday, I did make the after-party — a reception at the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix. The reception, sponsored by Congressman Ed Pastor and Phoenix political consultant Ronnie Lopez, was attended by…
Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Brett Mecum is “creepy around women,” according to a complaint filed with the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.A criminal complaint, dredged up by the Yellow Sheet, was filed against Mecum last month, and it claims he used voter registration records to find a woman’s address and crash…
The Arizona Court of Appeals has jumped into the middle of the so-called corruption probe that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas have been attempting to escalate this week.A three-judge panel of the court issued an order this morning halting Arpaio and Thomas from any attempt…
The Goldwater Institute claims that a lawsuit it filed against the city of Tempe has forced changes in the deal between the city and a British developer to build an aquarium at the Arizona Mills Mall.The folks at Goldwater felt the city was giving unfair incentives to Sea Life, a…
The Arizona Republic editorialized this morning that county leadership is out of control, and says in its closing argument that “a higher, saner power must step in.”Obviously, they’re talking about the feds — not this wimpy guy: Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democrat, is evidently powerless against his Republican…
There was speculation that Republican AZ Senator Jim Waring would consider a run for state treasurer, and this week he made it official.Yesterday, term-limited Waring planned to set up an exploratory committee to begin raising money to become Arizona’s top banker, and will close up shop on a committee he started to…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas claimed at a news conference on Tuesday that allegations of problems with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial-disclosure forms “haven’t panned out.” He also says that if his office received bona fide information about a possible violation of the law, he’d act on it. Well, Mr. Thomas and…
The Arizona Republic has compiled a list of what it feels are the top 10 Phoenix Coyotes stories of the decade and as, um, shocking as it may seem, only two of them actually pertain to something the team did on the ice.Frankly, they’re the only two stories on the…
The opulent Mondrian resort in Scottsdale is facing foreclosure, after the owners failed to restructure $40 million in delinquent loans. The hotel, one of a dozen owned by New York-based Morgan Hotel Group, remains open for now, but a notice of trustee’s sale was filed this week, with an initial…
The nativists talked a big game on the United for a Sovereign America Web site, calling for a protest of two Applebee’s restaurants in Phoenix that were participating in a fundraiser for Sal Reza’s Macehualli Work Center. But other than harassing the employees and customers of the two locations, 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: Feathered Bastard: Activist Dennis Gilman’s Letter of Disgust to Eric Holder’s DOJ Investigators Up on the Sun:…
Adam Stoddard, the sticky-fingered detention officer jailed for defying a court order demanding he apologize to a defense attorney for taking her legal papers, has been released from jail.At a press conference this afternoon, Stoddard stepped up to the microphone, spoke for less than a minute, cast a victorious smirk, and…
Our acquaintance is anything but a squishy liberal, having served for a few decades as a prosecutor of major felonies for one of Arizona’s 15 counties (we’ll leave it at that for reasons that soon will become apparent). He let us know that he read the direct complaint and…
More than 300 of Arizona’s top Lego architects will be meeting at Arizona State University on Saturday to compete in the First Lego League robotic championships…
Diane Tvert is a self-described “child of the ’70’s,” so when her son wrote a 192-page book about why weed is safer than alcohol that has found itself on best-seller lists, she was quick to give him a ringing endorsement.”My mom is totally on board,” Mason Tvert, author of the…
Deputies are taking boxes of files from the Chicanos Por La Causa buildings at 11th Street and Buckeye Road as the group’s supporters prepare for a possible anti-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio demonstration. (See update below — a demonstration is now looking less likely). A regional conference of Chicanos Por La Causa officials is…
Like a lot of anti-Arpaio activists in town, videographer Dennis Gilman has been helping the U.S. Department of Justice gather evidence of abuse of power and racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. He’s provided them with a massive amount of video that he and others have culled while…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies are serving a search warrant this morning at the Chicanos Por la Causa, Inc., 1122 East Buckeye Road. We’re not sure, but it seems safe to assume it might have something to do with the criminal charges filed this week against Mary Rose Wilcox, one of…
Arizona’s got a brand new pair of “bandits” that the FBI believes are linked to at least six bank robberies since October.The FBI is calling the bank-robbing duo the “High Country Bandits” because the majority of their robberies have occurred in places like Payson and Prescott…
