Veolia Transportation officials and representatives of the three local transit unions continue to negotiate labor contracts and have managed to avoid a bus strike in Phoenix. So far. But more than two-dozen union workers who drive, fuel, clean, and repair Phoenix city buses protested, with bright-colored signs in hand, this…
A Prescott Valley man was caught on camera with his hand in the cookie jar. Only it wasn’t an actual cookie jar — it was a coffee can collecting donations for the family of 2-year-old Emmett Trapp, the boy found dead last week after going missing from his home two…
The hunt is still on for Casslyn Welch and her would-be cous-band, escaped Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey. The first cousins are apparently engaged, despite McCluskey’s lengthy prison term, and are currently on the run somewhere in the American Northwest or Canada, authorities believe.We came across an interview a woman –…
Props to Congressmen Jeff Flake and (as much as it pains us) John Shadegg. The two were recently named “taxpayer super heroes” by a government-waste watchdog group.The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste honored the two Arizona congressmen for scoring a perfect 100 on the group’s 2009 Congressional Ratings…
There’s an argument to be made that violence on TV leads to violence in the real world. A Glendale man may have contributed to this argument.Police say 32-year-old Kemonte Tremayne Wesson was arrested early Sunday morning for shooting a 37-year-old man with whom he had an argument.The argument, as dumb…
The Arizona Diamondbacks repeatedly have flopped on the road this season, proving time and again the old adage attributed to Yogi Berra that a game ain’t over until it’s over. But last night’s game in Milwaukee against the Brewers didn’t fit the ongoing narrative. First of all, Arizona scratched out…
It’s no secret that we at New Times are no fans of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but even we have to ask: is depicting America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” as Adolf Hitler over the line?A painting at the “Footprints” art show, featuring anti-SB 1070 art, depicts Arpaio as Hitler. Check it…
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:…
Back from Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office headquarters in downtown Phoenix, where we spent a few hours looking through public files involving the infamous, spectacularly overblown (yet never prosecuted) “bribery” case against Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe. Conclusion: The “case” was a dog, and a rabid one at that. The files confirm our earlier…
Arizona lawmakers convened a special session today to fiddle with the language of a ballot measure intended to preserve secret-ballot elections in labor-union campaigns. Funny thing, though: Arizona’s got a lot of problems — and this ain’t one of them. We’ve written about the issue before: In a nutshell, labor unions — which have…
As if the story of an Oklahoma couple — who authorities believe were murdered in New Mexico by escapees from an Arizona prison — couldn’t get any worse… Turns out the couple was about to have a grandchild.Authorities believe escapees Tracy Province — who was taken into custody this morning…
Randy Parraz has filed a federal lawsuit against Maricopa County and several deputies regarding his trumped-up arrest for protesting at a 2008 meeting of the Board of Supervisors. The pro-union, anti-Joe-Arpaio attorney-activist is currently running for U.S. Senate as a Democrat. If he manages to win over three other Democrats in the race (polls…
Well that certainly didn’t take long. Just hours after Senator John McCain’s campaign called “The Maverick’s” GOP primary opponent J.D. Hayworth “corrupt,” Hayworth’s campaign has fired back, claiming McCain tried to blackmail Hayworth into supporting his “amnesty bill” by threatening to discuss his alleged corruption with the media.Hayworth’s campaign released…
Despite the fact that District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton ripped out most of SB 1070’s spine on July 28, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s still doing his anti-Hispanic dragnets. And if other law enforcement agencies in Sand Land don’t have the carte blanche they would have had under an un-enjoined 1070, this recent…
Flagstaff police have identified the man who died after he was hit by a train last week.The victim: 47-year-old Johnnie Augustine.Witnesses told police that Augustine probably was drunk when he tried to run across train tracks as a train was approaching. The Flagstaff Police Department says Augustine was walking southbound near…
Steve Moak is one of 10 candidates in the GOP primary for the District Three Congressional seat. But before his bid to be the District’s next congressman, he was a businessman and philanthropist.The line between profit and charity appears to have been blurred for Moak, who, according to tax records…
Despite significant gains in almost every poll taken over the last month, Senator John McCain’s campaign continues to hammer away at The Maverick’s opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth.This primary has been one of the uglier political contests in the 2010 campaign season and, in its final stages,…
Officials at the Arizona Department of Corrections confirmed this morning that one of the two Arizona prison inmates, who escaped from a privately run prison near Kingman on July 30, has been captured.Corrections officials announced this morning that Tracy Province, a convicted murderer, was arrested in northern Wyoming this morning,…
You shouldn’t expect subtlety from agitprop, and subtlety is definitely in rare supply at the anti-SB 1070 “FootPrints” show at Bragg’s Pie Factory, which continues through September.But seeing that Arizona’s debate over immigration is about as subtle as a cinder block to the cranium, such explicitness seems justified. Moreover, protest art is…
The Arizona Diamondbacks 2010 season hasn’t provided too much to cheer for. So fans must dwell on the little victories — no matter how futile they may be.Chris Young provided two little victories on Saturday night in the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-5 win over the San Diego Padres.The D-Backs took two…
Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: “national poster boy.”The term was used by Ben Quayle in statement his campaign released in response to a different far-reaching attack…
Our former colleague John Dougherty and the other three aspiring Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate are set to debate tonight up at Paradise Valley Community College. The scheduled two-hour session (7-9 p.m.) will be held at the school’s Center for the Performing Arts, and it promises to be a…
