Based on the most recent job-loss data, Arizona may have been hit harder by the recession than Michigan, a state infamous for job losses in the past. The most recent data shows that Arizona, since the start of the recession, shows the highest percentage of job losses. Arizona, according to…
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: Joe Arpaio “First Amendment Forum” at ASU Cronkite School To Be Protested by Student Activists…
The most troubling thing about swine flu, a.k.a. H1N1, is who it kills: Young people. Or, if not young, certainly younger than any normal idea of “old.”With seasonal flu, about 90 percent of deaths occur in people over age 65, experts say.In Arizona this year, 103 people are confirmed to…
I just spoke with CBS 5/KPHO news producer Gilbert Zermeno, part of the award-winning team that put together the recent, blistering report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s abuse of power that ran at the end of October. That’s the one that featured reporter Morgan Loew’s interview with former U.S. Attorney and straight-shooter…
The news that a recent poll shows Joe Arpaio as the top dog in the GOP should he choose to run for governor seems to have Governor Jan Brewer looking for good news anywhere she can find it — including her Twitter page.In two separate “tweets,” Governor Jan is directing…
We loved KJ, otherwise known as Kevin Johnson, first as one of the all-time great Phoenix Suns and, later, as the subject of an unseemly New Times cover story entitled “The Summer of ’95.” In part, the story described how Johnson allegedly had engaged in sexual petting with a…
Wow.We’ve been known to scratch our heads at the Arizona Republic’s unwillingness to call a spade a spade — or even refer to said spade with a polite euphemism. But a recent editorial in the paper’s Ahwatukee community edition may take the cake as the daily’s most misguided, misleading, and…
Whenever the University of Arizona football team heads to Tempe to play ASU in the Territorial Cup, ASU students camp out on Tempe’s A Mountain to prevent any Wildcats from climbing up and painting the giant gold A on the side of the mountain red.The game is this Saturday, and…
The Phoenix Coyotes made history last night in Edmonton, and like many Coyotes milestones, it’s not good history.During the team’s 4-0 loss to the Edmonton Oilers, the Coyotes managed to get scored on twice in seven seconds. For anyone unfamiliar with hockey, two goals happening that fast is almost impossible…
As mind-numbingly impossible as it is to imagine, Sheriff Joe, avowed enemy of a free press and brown people everywhere, will be the guest speaker at the ASU Cronkite School of Journalism’s “First Amendment Forum” this Monday, November 30.Talk about eating turkey after Thanksgiving. Arpaio lecturing at a First Amendment…
When given the option of an exciting wildcat offense and a stud quarterback, or two middle-aged guys in the twilight of their careers, NBC is going with the latter.NBC has decided to show the Arizona Cardinals a little love this season and has opted to move the Cards December 6…
If the Arizona Department of Health Services had its way, your Thanksgiving dinner would probably be more like visiting a relative in a county jail than a fun family meal. …
Anyone looking to adopt their very own geratric this holiday season, look no further. The Gilbert Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a program called “Adopt a Senior,” where residents take it upon themselves to make sure a senior citizen has a nice holiday season. As if our own senile grandparents…
A new survey by a Washington-based publisher puts Gilbert and Surprise among the safest cities in the country. The cities were ranked 24th and 27th by CQ Publishers. The group calculated FBI crime rates for 2008 and found both cities to have some of the lowest in the country… There’s an increase in…
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: Joe Arpaio Best in Field Against Terry Goddard for Governor’s Race Rasmussen Reports Up on…
There’s a cow killer on the loose, and the Humane Society of the United States is offering $2,500 to bring the culprit to justice.The Arizona Game and Fish Department and the Humane Society are looking for the person responsible for murdering a cow at the privately owned Sierra Bonita Ranch…
The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 percent. Locally, hate crimes were up in Arizona by nearly 15 percent, in Phoenix by 11.25 percent (see note below), and in Maricopa County…
Senator John McCain has pledged to block the confirmation of nominees for three political spots within the Department of Agriculture until the USDA approves a request by the owners of the Arizona Snowbowl to use treated wastewater to make snow.The use of wastewater to make snow for skiers at Snowbowl…
After nearly four agonizing months, the Arizona State Senate has finally passed four bills that will cut about $450 million from the state’s budget.Like most things in the Legislature, this afternoon’s agreement didn’t come without a little bit of drama.First and foremost: Bravo to Senator Thayer Verschoor for actually showing…
Arizona Treasurer Dean Martin hit the airways last night on KTAR’s Jay Lawrence Show expressing his lack of optimism about the way the Legislature and Governor Jan Brewer are handling the budget fiasco.Can you blame him?…
Phoenix’s new Civic Space Park is honored by Engineering News-Record magazine as being the best designed park of 2009.For anyone who’s been to the park, you may be saying: “It just looks like a few acres of grass with some benches.” On the surface, you would be right. However, the park…
Arizona voters apparently love racial profiling and corruption. That’s the conclusion I’m drawing from newly released Rasmussen poll numbers showing that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio does the best of possible GOP gubernatorial candidates against Arizona Attorney Terry Goddard. In a survey of 1,200 likely voters, Arpaio, a Republican, would top…
