On Wednesday, New Times ran a story about the lack of time former County Attorney Andrew Thomas spent in his office in the six months leading up to his announcing his candidacy for attorney general.It turns out, it wasn’t a whole lot — about three hours a day, according to parking garage…
Friday, college grads and alumni at ASU’s Hispanic Convocation are going to tell SB 1070 supporters where to go, in the nicest way possible.Los Diablos, ASU’s Latino Alumni Association, has unveiled a brilliant new retort to Arizona’s nasty “paper’s please” legislation: A maroon and gold T-shirt, which reads, “You want…
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: American Bar Association Conference Protested to the Tune of the Village People’s Y.M.C.A. Up on…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new deal for illegal immigrants serving time in his jails: Wash dishes and do laundry, and you’ll get the boot back to Mexico in half the time.Assuming eating some of Joe’s loaf isn’t a stipulation of the deal, it sounds like a hell…
Captain Joel Fox finally received his computer equipment back from the state Attorney General’s Office, which is investigating him on allegations of making improper political contributions. Fox, typically chatty, has been mostly silent in the last few months as rumors swirl that he’s going to be indicted. But the other…
Tempe police on Tuesday arrested seven members of a local “party crew” after a seven-month investigation into a check-cashing scam that cost Tempe banks more than $55,000.First, you may be asking yourself “what the hell is a ‘party crew?'” Tempe Police Sergeant Steve Carbajal tells New Times that a “party…
Border Patrol agents made another substantial weed bust yesterday, and as well as becoming the new owners of hundreds of pounds of weed, agents got some sweet, new toys out of the deal, too.Agents on patrol near Three Points noticed some ATV tracks in a remote section of the desert.The…
Was it just us, or did Tom Horne seem out of his league last night on CNN during a debate with Georgetown Professor Michael Dyson about Arizona’s new ban on public-school classes that teach “ethnic solidarity?” If Arizona’s image needs a shot in the arm right now because of its new…
Will the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors “contempt hearing” planned for May 24 really be the first step in the jailing of Sheriff Joe Arpaio? It’s hard to imagine that scenario will actually occur, but heck, the Arizona Republic says it might happen. Forget the possibility of a federal indictment…
Attention Senator John McCain and Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth: The word “dang” sucks — stop using it.That being said, Hayworth, in response to McCain’s “Build the Danged Fence” television ad has created a new “danged” Web site called The Complete Danged Truth to point out how he claims “The Maverick”…
As we reported last week, Eric Byrnes, the Arizona Diamondbacks one-time golden boy, was released from the Seattle Mariners and is now getting paid $11 million — by the D-backs — to play beer league softball.After being released from the Mariners, Byrnes joined a softball team sponsored by The Dutch…
About a dozen or so activists protested an American Bar Association conference at the Pointe Hilton Tapatio resort in north Phoenix, demanding that the participants walk out of the conference and join the nationwide boycott of Arizona over SB 1070.Organized in part by Linda Brown of the Arizona Advocacy Network,…
There’s a new feather for Arizona to stick in its cap: The Daily Beast has ranked Arizona Number 20 on its list of the United States’ most corrupt states.If you ask us, this is good news — we thought we’d at least get some top-10 love.The rankings don’t exclusively focus…
So much for that “deal.”Just days after Glendale and the NHL agreed to a $25 million deal to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in Jobing.com Arena for one more year, the Goldwater Institute tells New Times it will file a lawsuit to invalidate the agreement.Le Templar, a spokesman for the Phoenix-based…
In the words of the late, great Mitch Hedberg, “I love the Fed-Ex guy because he’s a drug dealer and he don’t even know it.” Unfortunately for a Nebraska woman, the person who delivered a package containing 13 pounds of weed to her home figured out what was being delivered and…
diamondbacks.mlb.com Edwin Jackson gave up six runs on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Dodgers. It’d be easy to lay complete blame on Edwin Jackson for the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 6-3 loss last night to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Particularly since one of his 94 miles per hour heaters became the difference-maker…
President Barack Obama has announced his nominee to fill John Paul Stevens’ spot on the Supreme Court. She’s Elena Kagan, and she’s already getting dubbed a lesbian because of the way she looks, and because of a photo of her playing softball that was published on the front page of the Wall Street Journal yesterday…
It’s been two months since the feds tried to gut LifeLock with a $12 million penalty for deceptive advertising, and the company’s Web site still boasts that it can protect people from identity theft. The Tempe-based company has spent millions of dollars since 2006 on ads that broadcast CEO Todd…
THE COST OF WAR If there’s anything you can take from the fallout over SB 1070 in this state, it’s that a large number of Arizonans want “illegals” out. That the term “illegals” is often used to mean all Hispanics should be obvious to anyone who pays attention to the…
I was supposed to deliver this column to ustedes for Cinco de Drinko, but Arizona’s reprehensible SB 1070 bill had to rear its ugly head. I could devote this column to the issue again, but Mexican-hating is a national sport, and we must darle chingazos wherever it pops out. Big…
CASINO ROYALE Casino will bring economic change: I just read your “Wanna Bet?” article about the Tohono O’odham casino. I used to be married to an American Indian. We lived on the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla Indian reservation [in Oregon] for three years. In that time, the tribe built…
New Times’ Michael Lacey, Stephen Lemons, and Paul Rubin won first place in the 2010 Best of the West’s Immigration and Minority Affairs category for the newspaper’s series “Are Your Papers in Order?” In addition, New Times’ Amy Silverman won the 2010 Mental Health America Media Award in the local/regional…
