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: Feathered Bastard:Barack Obama Chats With Jan Brewer, as Joe Arpaio Pulls Another Anti-Immigration StuntJackalope Ranch:Welding, Spelunking, and…
The good news keeps rolling in for Coyotes fans. A day after GM Don Maloney was named GM of the Year, the Howlers unveiled their season ticket prices for the 2010-11 campaign, which begins in October. Fans will be happy to hear that the majority of the ticket prices will…
Apparently it’s go-grab-your-gun day in the GOP Senate primary and both former Congressman J.D. Hayworth and his opponent, Senator John McCain, each picked up endorsements from some big-name gunslingers.We got an email from Hayworth’s campaign earlier today announcing that Bob Corbin, the former president of the National Rifle Association, was…
The last of the three surviving karate instructors who burned down the Phoenix headquarters of a youth-instruction firm has been sentenced to four years in prison. Moniza Murillo, 20, received the lightest sentence of the three, apparently as reward for providing the most help to authorities following the June 14 blaze. As New Times reported in January’s…
Arizona could have one killer rock concert, on par with Coachella, if all the bands who’re cancelling Cactus Country gigs or boycotting the state due to SB 1070 were to participate.The East L.A. Chicano rock band Los Lobos is the latest to kill a concert here in Sand Land over…
The treasurer of a neighborhood watch organization in Phoenix was busted today for allegedly stealing money from the organization over a two-month period.Ready for the kicker? A lot of that money came from grants from the financially-fucked City of Phoenix.Phoenix Police Detective James Holmes tells New Times that 34-year-old Vincenta…
Every month the city of Phoenix Public Information Office sends out a blast to media with story ideas reporters might consider covering on a slow news day.Some of the June story ideas include covering the fire ban the Phoenix parks department has instituted in the city’s desert preserves or the…
(Note: Please see the statement from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network on Obama’s treachery below, as well as an update on Arpaio’s raid.) It was all way too polite, and obviously calculated by the White House in an attempt to protect President’s right flank. I mean Governor Jan Brewer’s…
The Diamondbacks don’t have a game today, meaning their current 10-game losing streak can’t get any worse until tomorrow’s contest at home against the Colorado Rockies. That doesn’t mean there aren’t issues to deal meantime. After recent comments from General Manager Josh Byrnes and Managing General Partner Ken Kendrick, nearly…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio “tweeted” earlier today that he needed a little help deciding what to do for his birthday this year, and while “jump in front of a fucking bus” was our initial suggestion, we figured loyal New Times readers probably had a few ideas of their own…
Just heard from Dan Saban, a decent guy who has taken on Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the campaign trail and in civil court (and, alas, has lost every time). He tells us that he recently participated in a roundtable discussion with CNN “regarding the abuses of authority by Joe Arpaio…
If you think former Supreme Court Justice — and Arizona native — Sandra Day O’Connor is still a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, you’re wrong but not alone O’Connor retired from the bench in 2006. But even if you don’t know tht but still know who she was, you know more…
I’ll never be able to watch reruns of The Incredible Hulk in quite the same way.In this video from Tempe’s recent, pro-SB 1070 “buycott” rally, Lou Ferrigno appears onstage with Sheriff Joe Arpaio, flexing for the crowd before Arpaio addresses the nativist faithful about how the Obama administration’s been pickin’…
A radio station in Ohio, which last week held a contest offering the prize of a weekend in Arizona — where “Americans are proud and illegals are scared” — offered an on-air apology yesterday for the insensitive stunt.Brian Dytko, the station manager for News Talk 610 WTVN in Columbus, Ohio, personally…
Yesterday, we published a story about comments that Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth made about John McCain’s support of a bill that would repeal the federal healthcare law that passed earlier this year. At a campaign stop this week, Hayworth was discussing McCain’s reluctance to co-sponsor a repeal of the law sponsored by…
Governor Jan Brewer released a statement last night in response to accusations that she lied about her father’s service during World War II. The only problem is she didn’t even address the fact that she lied — or even that people seem to think she lied. In case you missed…
Yesterday, it was exposed that a story Governor Jan Brewer told the Arizona Republic about how her dad died “fighting the Nazi regime in Germany” was — to put it politely — less-than-accurate. In reality, not only was Jan’s dad not in the military, he never even left U.S. soil during…
I work at a high school where there is a significant number of our students without papers. Two students whom I had worked with for four years graduated last June (one from Mexico, the other from Paraguay), and they are now attending community college. Both have read your books. My…
MORE ON 1070 Apparently, we are the bigots: Are you kidding me? Supporters of Arizona Senate Bill 1070 are bigots? I am a Mexican American who strongly supports this constitutional law. Look around you — we are in trouble here. The federal government, both Democrats and Republicans, has ignored the…
There are 1,084 process servers licensed in Arizona, and only one of them has ever been prosecuted for threatening the county’s longtime presiding criminal court judge with bodily harm. Yet in December, when Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas — angered by a series of adverse rulings…
On April 27, Janet Napolitano pronounced that the border separating the United States from the Republic of Mexico is more secure than ever. “I say this again as someone who has walked that border,” the former Arizona governor told a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the oversight of the…
GODDARD’S ICE PICK Saturday’s massive anti-SB 1070 march in Phoenix — estimated at anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 strong — concluded at the state Capitol, where several speakers and performing acts took the stage to address the faithful. Aside from Mexican-American recording artist Jenni Rivera, the ethnically and racially diverse…
