The only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell is accused of watching porn in front of his girlfriend’s…
The U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau — which, as we noted earlier this week, is the same agency that lets drug cartel members buy guns — is warning firearms dealers not to sell guns to medical marijuana users.The ATF wrote a letter to firearms dealers earlier this week warning…
Russell Pearce gets the stuck pig treatment in this CBA ad.State Senate President Russell Pearce, a wholly owned subsidiary of sleazy fatcat lobbyists, with his hand out, ready to take pricey trips and football tickets for himself and his family, while cutting hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid…
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Steve Chucri, CEO of the Arizona Restaurant Association, announced plans today to run against Don Stapley in 2012 for a seat on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.”It’s time for new ideas … it’s time for a new day at the county,” says Chucri, who’s been head of the restaurant…
As if rush hour in Phoenix isn’t miserable enough, about 8 this morning, the southbound State Route 51 was briefly closed by Department of Public Safety officers as they chased a wayward rabbit off the freeway.That’s right — they shut down the highway to rescue a rabbit.DPS spokesman Bart Graves…
Arizona kids have about a 15-percent success rate when trying to buy cigarettes and other tobacco products from retail outlets across the state — and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is pissed.”For every 20 minors that walk into a store in Arizona to buy cigarettes, three of them — without…
Bad morale persists at the Arizona Department of Public Safety because of poor leadership, and officers aren’t hopeful for change, says a police association official.A committee formed by DPS Director Robert Halliday recently suggested, among other things, that Halliday demote his second-in-command, Lieutenant Colonel Jack Hegarty.John Ortolano, president of the…
The overall ineffectiveness of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigrant roundups aside, one of our biggest criticisms recently has been that they’re conducted under the guise of “employer sanctions” operations, despite the MCSO’s having never arrested a single employer — only employees (all of whom tend to have brown…
There’s been much squawking in Phoenix about the need to outsource, to privatize and to slash government costs — and it was a pledge that many of the six mayoral candidates made as they ran in the first leg of the Phoenix election.Now that the field of candidates in the…
To be honest, the only reason we requested the arrest report for Bruce Nicholas Wardell was because we were so impressed/terrified by his epic mullet. What he allegedly did to get arrested is just as horrific as his frizzy “party in the back.”Wardell was arrested Tuesday and is currently charged…
Stayed up to watch all of the baseball games that mattered last night–which were several. May we be allowed to understate for once?Greatest finish to a regular season in the history of the game.At home, the Arizona Diamondbacks needed to win and the Milwaukee Brewers needed to lose to give…
The Arizona Diamondbacks almost pulled off another come-from-behind rally to end the regular season last night, but ultimately came up short. Despite a late-game grand slam (which seems to have become as common a base hit this week), the team lost 7-5 to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field…
Cortes talks to ABC 15Greg Western, Cortes’ “adviser,” chats with ABC 15Keep in mind as you watch these ABC 15 interviews, first with sham recall candidate Olivia Cortes, then with Cortes’ “adviser” and Pearce loyalist Greg Western, that Cortes’ sticking her face out the door of her humble condo is…
Did you hear the one about 79-year-old Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio considering a run for the United States Senate?That’s not a joke — Arpaio, at 79, really claims to be considering running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.Anyone who knows anything about America’s self-proclaimed “toughest…
SAD SONGS Music does give comfort: Your story “Facing the Music” was truly inspiring. I wept as I read it (Kholood Eid, September 15). If you’ve ever had a relative lingering on his or her deathbed, you know how deeply depressed everybody is. Sometimes, the family is even more depressed…
Chuck Bauer loved his job as a lieutenant at the Lewis Prison Complex in Buckeye. He gradually had risen in rank over eight years (in two stints) with the Arizona Department of Corrections, winning Supervisor of the Year at Lewis twice. But the 56-year-old Peoria resident says he became increasingly…
I hear that at the last Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors hearing about redistricting, some lady accused Supervisor Gloria Molina of Reconquista. What is that — and what on earth is going on over there? I don’t get what all the fuss is about. The U.S. Census says that…
It’s election night, and the crowd is exuberant inside the auditorium at Civic Space Park on Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. The celebration on August 20 is about the re-election of Councilman Michael Nowakowski and the victory of Greg Stanton, a mayoral candidate who ended the night with the…
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Olivia Cortes, the so-called “sham” recall candidate supported by backers of state Senate President Russell Pearce, will appear in Maricopa County Superior Court tomorrow before Judge Edward Burke in a hearing to determine whether she will remain on the November 8 ballot in Legislative District 18.Both Tom Ryan, the attorney…
President Barack Obama today told a representative of a national Latino group that Arizona’s is not the model the rest of the country should mirror when it comes to handling illegal immigration.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio responded by issuing a press release saying that not only are his methods of…
