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:…
Proposition 203’s chances of passing rose a bit today, then fell some.With 89,000 early ballots and provisional ballots left to be counted, the game isn’t over yet.But the “yes” votes just can’t seem to get a solid break.Just before 4 p.m., the gap between “yes” and “no” votes closed further…
The Washington D.C.-based Campaign for Community Change apologized today for mailing an ad in Arizona that likened the opponent of Congressman Raul Grijalva to “white bread.”Grijalva, a Democrat who’s now infamous for urging a boycott of Arizona, barely won his election against Ruth McClung, a 28-year-old political newcomer and Republican…
What’s the big deal?That’s what a man cops found huffin’ spray paint in an orange grove next to the Falcon Field Municipal Airport in Mesa asked police when they politely told him he needed to stop throwing oranges at the airplanes.According to the Mesa Police Department, 33-year-old Brian Henio was…
Just about every high school kid in America looks forward to the day when petty differences between two students culminate into a good ol’ fashion after-school brawl (except for the standard, buzz kill lone girl standing nearby screaming “oh my god, oh my god, stop it,” of course). Thanks to…
The unsatisfactory conditions of the road leading into a remote town in Yavapai County caused a Phoenix man to leave some constructive criticism stuck to roadsigns in the area. The suggestions weren’t well received by local law enforcement, though, and the man was arrested for vandalism.According to the Yavapai County…
One man is dead and another is injured after a shootout in west Phoenix last night.According to the Phoenix Police Department, the double shooting happened around 7 p.m. yesterday, when two men exchanged gunfire in the area of 71st Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix…
Do yourself a favor: if you own a white conversion van, don’t drive it near Nogales — especially if you’re carting around more than a ton of marijuana.According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, last week, ICE agents saw a white conversion van sitting in a parking lot near a…
Don’t panic, or anything, but for the second time in about a year, a sex offender escaped from the state mental hospital.The escape happened about two weeks ago, when a sex offender in the hospital’s minimal security transitional reintegration program scaled a fence and escaped into downtown Phoenix. Unlike the…
Uber-Liberal MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, after learning his suspension from the network would last all of four days (including a weekend), has issued an apology to the viewers of Countdown. As for an apology to the network: don’t hold your breath.Olbermann “tweeted” a prepared statement last night and, like his…
An influential group of individuals — including three elected Phoenix officials, members of the Goldwater Institute and the firefighters’ union boss — have been quietly meeting over the past month and developing strategies on how to change city government.It’s unclear what will ultimately emerge from this group, but its members…
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:…
No matter which way this thing goes, it’s been a hell of a race. The fight for Proposition 203, Arizona’s medical marijuana measure, is still on as of Monday evening. Another positive blip for 203 in the late vote counts put the measure at only 3,800 votes behind, according to the latest figures…
A liberal organization funded a pro-Raul Grijalva mailer this election season that likens the Congressman’s opponent to “white bread.” Gila Courier, a conservative blog, pointed out the mailer on November 1, the day before the election, along with a failed prediction that the Democrat incumbent would lose to Ruth McClung,…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard wants your take on why he fumbled so badly against Governor Jan Brewer in the recent gubernatorial race. Well, actually, according to a note on his FaceBook site Terry Goddard for Governor, Terry’s “taking a break” from FB-ing. So it’s really Goddard’s volunteers who are…
Hallucinogenic mushrooms, as far as drugs go, aren’t all that damaging to the human body. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control considers “magic mushrooms” less toxic than aspirin. But it’s the things people do while under the influence of mushrooms — like take a header out of an eighth…
The Phoenix Police Department has identified the boy found shot to death on a Phoenix sidewalk yesterday morning.The victim is 13-year-old Jonathan Garcia-Valladares. His body was found just blocks from the Phoenix home where he lives with his parents.According to police, Garcia-Valladares was jogging near 28th Street and Thomas Road…
Here at New Times, we always thought the day we applauded Meghan McCain — the daughter of Senator John McCain — for anything at all would be a cold day in hell. Well, it’s about 75 degrees outside and the younger McCain deserves some credit where credit is due.Meggie-poo was…
A Phoenix man accused of beating his mother and nephew to death with a shovel earlier this year pled guilty to murder in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning.Erik Lampert, 35, copped to murdering his two relatives, 14-year-old Logan Lampert and 61-year-old Sheila Lampert, on June 20.Lampert, described as…
What are we to make of neo-Nazi-huggin’ state Senator Russell Pearce’s declaration that under his rule as majority leader, Arizona’s upper house will be “the Tea Party Senate”?Look no further than the August report on “Tea Party Nationalism,” produced by the anti-racist Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights,…
The Chandler Police Department has arrested two additional suspects in a 2006 drive-by shooting that left a 19-year-old mother dead.Lindsay Key was gunned down outside of a house party in Chandler in December of 2006. Two suspected gang members, Rodrigo Romero and Francisco Cervantes, were arrested late last year and…
The wrist-slap that is the MSNBC suspension of liberal talk show host Keith Olbermann will be coming to an end, the network announced last night.Olbermann was suspended last week after news broke that he contributed thousands of dollars to the campaigns of two Arizona Congressional candidates — a violation of…
