Once again, contracts have been extended for Veolia Transportation workers. Pushing back — yet again — the possibility of a bus strike in Phoenix.The contracts, which would have expired at midnight on Thursday, for Veolia’s maintenance staff, represented by Teamsters Local 104, are now good through October. 3.It appears that…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd continues to beat the Dirty drum in his campaign’s first TV ad.News of Hulburd’s opponent Ben Quayle’s ties to the sleazy Web site “The Dirty” was revealed nearly two months ago and Hulburd has made it the focal point of his campaign — probably better than…
diamondbacks.mlb.com Barry Enright allowed four homers by the San Francisco Giants this past week. If the Arizona Diamondbacks ever hope to reverse their cellar-dwelling ways and field a competitive team next year, there are a few things they need to work on during the off-season. Besides firing their bullpen en…
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that — aside from the guy being naked — is he was an inmate at the jail who’d just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the…
The Phoenix Police Department has finally issued a press release in the racially-motivated shooting of Kelly Jaeger, a Caucasian woman who was walking late at night in Phoenix’s Palma Park when she and her African-American friend Jeffery Wellmaker were reportedly accosted by a bald, white tattooed man. The man challenged…
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The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question “Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?” Perhaps the questions should have been “how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticing?”Allow us to explain:This morning, around 7:30, a…
One of the City of Phoenix’s countless homeless men apparently doesn’t have enough money for a house — but he had enough money to buy gasoline so he could set one on fire.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 62-year-old Frutoso Gallegos went to a gas station in the…
The possibility of a bus strike looms over metro Phoenix even as Veolia Transportation executives and union leaders continue trying to hammer out labor agreements.Contracts expire at midnight tonight for Veolia’s maintenance staff, represented by Teamsters Local 104, and for Amalgamated Transit Union Local No. 1433, which represents bus operators.City…
I’ve blogged till I’m blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona’s “breathing while brown law” SB 1070. One of Pearce’s favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he’s sputtered on numerous occasions, like he…
Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey might just get his morbid wish.After McCluskey and his cousin/would-be-wife, Casslyn Welch, were arrested last month, McCluskey tried to kill himself in prison. Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says the the two — as well as another escapee, Tracy Province — have been indicted for…
The shooting of Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll has inspired some interesting satire. Yesterday, we showed you a strange-but-entertaining video that’s making the rounds on Youtube. Today, the Arizona Republic is mocking the incident with a cartoon Sheriff Paul Babeu probably isn’t liking..The cartoon is titled “Babeu Shoots Himself,”…
Aside from having a law degree, U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman has a Ph.D. in arid-land-resource sciences.The subject of arid-land-resource science may bore you to tears, but his dissertation on the subject is somewhat entertaining. That’s because it seems some of it was written by someone else and not properly…
Quick note in the “If it wasn’t for bad luck” department. For obvious reasons, those of us who write tough stories for a living have to try to maintain a professional demeanor at all times. Earlier this year, we traveled down to Cochise County to conduct the first media interview…
Our holy-shit-ometer kicked in around 8:30 last night when we got an e-mail from the Reverend Jarrett Maupin, an African-American civil-rights leader here in Phoenix (he’s basically a young version of Al Sharpton — check the hair and our cover story from 2005). Maupin leads the Inner-City Democracy Empowerment Agency and…
Yesterday, we wrote about two of the dumber alleged criminals in recent memory.One guy, Albert Graham, was arrested after police say he broke into the same house twice in two days.He faces charges of burglary, possession of stolen property, theft, assault, and criminal damage.Check it out here.Another guy, Jay Searles,…
SKINHEADS IN STIR There’s a weird rumor going around that the Phoenix Police Department canceled a press conference planned for September 23 because of my Feathered Bastard blog post the day before. In that post (“Vinlanders Vanquished,” September 22), I detailed how the PPD’s Career Criminal Squad had decimated the Arizona…
Monsters of Folk was coming to the Orpheum Theatre last fall, but Charlie Levy didn’t have the cash to buy a billboard. So the Tucson-based music promoter hired a friend to paint a mural. They made it a happening. On the First Friday in October, an artist named Joe Pagac…
GAY REPUBLICANS GOP will never accept gay scions: These two young men need to wake up and smell the coffee that they now drink (“Over the Rainbow,” Niki D’Andrea, September 16)! The Republican Party hierarchy will never accept them. Never! Matt R. Salmon, break away from your bigoted father entirely…
I understand NYC isn’t your jurisdiction, but maybe you have some insight, or maybe this is also a problem for other smart and successful Latinas. My question is: Why is it so hard to find an educated Mexican or, hell, even a Latino man who isn’t a pretentious hijo de…
Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, raises a few interesting questions regarding Maricopa County’s crotchety top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The indictments of…
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