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:…
What’s the first thing you think when you see a nice, 18-year-old stripper? We have a feeling it’s not “wow, she’s great, and all. I just really wish she was older.”That, apparently, is what Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik thinks whenever he sees one, because he’s introduced legislation that would…
We’re still waiting on public records to shed more light on the disturbing news that backed-up toilet water dripped from the ceilings as surgeries took place at the Phoenix VA hospital. (See our original piece from last week, reported nowhere else, in which officials at the hospital admitted to the…
As one of our colleagues pointed out yesterday, you should never bring a stun-gun to a real-gun fight — or an armored-car robbery, for that matter.Yesterday, we told you about an attempted armored-car robbery in Phoenix. It was reported that the suspect in the robbery was shot by the courier…
Despite not throwing a touchdown, despite not handing the ball off to someone who scored a touchdown, and despite throwing an interception in the first drive of his first game as an NFL starter, Arizona Cardinals quarterback Max Hall has been nominated to be the NFL’s rookie of the week.As…
Five months after having (ahem) its first lawsuit against former Arizona Cardinals cornerback Eric Green thrown out by a Florida judge, a New York tranny has refiled a similar lawsuit alleging Green performed “forcible sodomy” on him (or is it “her?” If anyone knows the PC objective pronoun to describe…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office today announced that the officer involved in last week’s shooting of an unarmed domestic violence suspect has been charged with murder.If you’re unfamiliar with the case click here. It’s nuts.The county attorney also provided some background on the accused officer, 37-year-old Richard Chrisman, including a…
Medical marijuana has the most support of any ballot proposition for the November 2 election, a new survey of likely voters shows. Fifty-four percent of registered voters, and 52 percent of likely voters, would vote “yes” on Proposition 203, says the latest Rocky Mountain Poll. If you’re thinking, “There’s no way it…
Two arrests have been made in connection with a body dumped at a truck stop in the far West Valley earlier this week.Around 12:30 p.m. Monday, police got a call about two men who were seen dumping a human body at the Travel Center of America Truck Stop at 339th…
The Congressional candidates for Arizona’s Third District debated last night at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication in Phoenix. There were a few surprises — Democratic candidate Jon Hulburd said he doesn’t know if he’s qualified for the job, Republican candidate Ben Quayle finally went negative, and…
What is it with the Mexican hang-up on body parts? When General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna was struck by a cannonball at the knee in one of his 8,000 wars, his right leg was removed from the knee down. When he returned to Mexico City, he ordered a state…
THE TALLEST TALE In short, we can’t: Thank you for an excellent and timely story (“Pinalcchio,” September 23; also see “The Big Spin,” October 7, both by Paul Rubin). If this is an example of the way Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu handles investigations of fellow officers, how can we expect…
Ben Quayle sat in Jon Kyl’s office on February 14. Quayle already had privately made the decision to run for Congress in Arizona’s Third District, and with the junior U.S. senator having once represented Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, Quayle was turning to him for advice. Quayle had yet to announce his…
Andrei Cherny’s ad attacking Doug Ducey has the ex-Cold Stone CEO playing defense My head’s been so buried in statistics for an upcoming feature that I missed a news conference last week for former Clinton advisor and Democratic contender for Arizona State Treasurer Andrei Cherny. In it, the Cherny camp…
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:…
Arizona’s not really “Rethinking Open Range Laws,” despite a New York Times article published on Monday with that headline.The article by Marc Lacey offers only one source to back up that headline, Democratic State Representative Daniel Patterson of Tucson, who Lacey says has introduced a bill “pushing for an end…
A show of good faith?That’s what Veolia is calling the company’s latest offer — this one to allow members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters back to work after 2:59 a.m.on October 15.Coincidentally, October 15 is the deadline set by the National Labor Relations Board for Veolia Transportation to answer…
A labor dispute that promoted Veolia Transportation officials to lock out about 60 union bus workers has led union reps to file charges against the company with the National Labor Relations Board.According to a letter from Cornele Overstreet, Regional Director of the NLRB in Phoenix, Union and Veolia officials have…
An apology for offending people with a political smear isn’t the same as apologizing for the smear, but that’s the best anyone’s getting out Chuck Coughlin, Governor Jan Brewer’s campaign advisor. Following his random, gay-baiting smear against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard yesterday, Coughlin posted the smarmy “I’m sorry” message on his…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd has based the majority of his campaign around attacking his opponent, Ben Quayle, over his ties to The Dirty, a raunchy, Scottsdale-based gossip site, to which Quayle admits contributing a few satirical posts.Hulburd opened his campaign by saying “this race is now between Jon Hulburd and…
As is almost always the case when police find a suspicious anything, the suspicious device found in a car entering the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station this morning was nothing sinister.If you’re unfamiliar with this morning’s brief scare click here.As it turns out, all the hubbub was over a smoke…
Other than Pinal County sheriff’s deputy Louie Puroll (if you believe him), just about everyone , including small children and our loyal mascot Frax (who looks an awful lot like the Jack Russell terrier in the photo), has heard about Senate Bill 1070. You know, the divisive anti-illegal immigration legislation signed…
