Ben Quayle, a candidate for the District 3 Congressional seat soon-to-be vacated by Congressman John Shadegg, has jumped head-first into the immigration debate, calling out Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for alleged disillusionment when it comes to the security of the U.S./Mexico border.”Secretary Janet Napolitano recently proclaimed Arizona’s border ‘is as secure…
If we were running for political office and our chief opponent was airing a TV ad featuring someone who’d appeared on a neo-Nazi radio show, we’d say “go for it, pal!”The logic being: It will only hurt the oppoient’s chances.But Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, with the wording of his statement to the…
The giant balloon dam pooling the Salt River into Tempe Town Lake burst last night, sending 750 million gallons of water downstream. Last night we brought you photos of the immediate aftermath.Today, we received three photos taken from the seventh floor of the Hayden Ferry building that help put things…
I don’t normally just throw up press releases on the blog, but as the following one from the Arizona Anti-Defamation League deals with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready’s ongoing “illegal alien” patrols in the desert, I think it’s worth repeating here verbatim. The ADL release, dated yesterday, condemns “law enforcement by neo-Nazis,” and criticizes the lack…
Joey Strickland, director of the Arizona Department of Veterans’ Services, was giving a nice little speech about how Arizona supposedly is getting better at helping out returning (from Afghanistan and Iraq) vets and their families. Suddenly, the director, a retired Army colonel, veered briefly from his prepared remarks to speak about a recent trip to…
U.S. Senate candidate and former New Times columnist John Dougherty (pictured) discussed his plan for the infamous “War on Drugs” this morning at a debate near Yuma. Bottom line: End it. The “squares” have gotta love that.”The War on Drugs has been an abject failure. We need to move it…
The State Department has issued an updated travel warning about Mexico, urging visiting Americans to be ultra-cautious because of all the drug-related violence. The announcement supercedes a previous warning in May and comes after extreme, new violence — including a Sonoran gun battle between rival gangs that left 21 people dead (two charred…
Dan Haren could be on his way out of town by July 31, the MLB’s trade deadline. According to Fox Sports Arizona, Haren would be willing to waive his partial no-trade clause if the deal was presented. Haren has a clause in his contract that allows him to cancel trades to…
Hope you’re ready for your daily dose of T & A because we’ve got it.Last night, the Phoenix Suns unveiled the lovely, young ladies who will hopefully cheer the team to an NBA Championship this season — and, as expected, they’re super-hot the most qualified for the job.Check these chicks…
We remember The Play like it was yesterday, to steal a clich’e, though it was almost a quarter-century ago, November 1986. It was a bright, sunny afternoon in Tucson, and we were right down on the field, parallel to the action inside Arizona’s 10-yard-line on the south side…
In most political campaigns, the children of candidates are off-limits — at least they should be.Someone may want to explain that to supporters of Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, who GOP Senate candidate Jim Deakin claims “accosted” his teenage daughters in parking lots, telling them Deakin better get out of the…
Gilman and Crump go at it in Gilman’s latestIn this latest video from Dennis Gilman, the feisty videographer goes at it with GOP candidate for Congress Sam Crump. Crump asserts that there have been documented cases of terrorists attempting to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, and Gilman confronts him on it.Crump…
[jump] The new section can hold an additional 100 inmates, but Arpaio says he expects that number to grow.”Citizens here sincerely hope that SB 1070 will result in large numbers of illegal aliens being captured and arrested by local law enforcement officers,” Arpaio says. “I’m not so certain that will…
The Arizona Diamondbacks have their first two-game winning streak of the Kirk Gibson era, thanks to a 3-2 win Tuesday night over the New York Mets at Chase Field. The back-to-back wins also give the D-Backs their first series win in almost a month. Barry Enright, who was called…
One of four dams at the west end of Tempe Town Lake burst last night, allowing about 750 million gallons of water to pour into the empty Salt River bed, and causing Tempe residents, the media, and government officials to freak out.Check out some photos of the lake draining here.Within…
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:…
There are a lot of reasons not to go to Arizona Diamondbacks games this season, and now there’s one more: fugly flashers uglyin’ up the stands.At last night’s trouncing of the New York Mets, a woman was compelled to bare almost all to fellow fans seated behind her.Bad news for…
The Phoenix office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to remove fewer illegal immigrants from Arizona in 2010, following what it says are two record-setting years for removals. As of July 19, the agency says it has removed 55,699 people from the state back to their countries of origin. Since ICE’s fiscal…
New info obtained by ICE shows that the Arizona’s border isn’t quite the revolving door some may think it is. Of the illegal immigrants “removed” from Arizona by the U.S. Immigration and Customs bureau in 2009, 4 percent of those individuals had also been removed in 2008. Most of the…
With neo-Nazis regularly patrolling parts of Pinal County for illegal aliens and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, this is the worst possible time for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to grant an interview to a well-known white supremacist radio show. But that’s exactly what Babeu did recently for a…
If you’re gay, black, Hispanic, Jewish, Asian, a woman, or you’re just able to hear, you may be pissed off at Mel Gibson these days.And for good reason — the dude’s nuts.Aside from the public outcry following Gibson’s screeching at his now-ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, that “if [she] gets raped by…
It turns out Robin Lopez won’t be giving it a go for Team USA, after all. Even though the Suns center was invited to training camp in Las Vegas last week, Lopez has decided not to participate. Instead, he will continue to heal a back injury that slowed him down…
