In case you haven’t noticed, Maricopa County will be coming to a boil this Friday. Not only is it the day of Arpaio’s announced anti-immigrant sweep — his first without 287(g) field authority, but the Rev. Al Sharpton will be back in town for a civil rights forum in downtown Phoenix. And the world…
State employees in Arizona will retain domestic-partner benefits for the next 12 months, even though the Legislature’s decided to eliminate those benefits in their last budget. The Department of Administration says cutting the benefits before October 2010 could put the state in violation of contract laws…Next week, the Metro light-rail board…
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: New York Times Blasts Joe Arpaio, Urges Obama Administration to End 287(g) Joe Arpaio Cites…
Police are looking for a man they say beat and robbed a 90-year-old Phoenix woman yesterday…
The Peoria Police Department released audio files today of a conversation between officers and the Wal-Mart employee who discovered the naked baby photos that made national headlines last month…
The “Spiritual Warrior” who hosted last week’s tragic $10,000 sweat lodge getaway, apparently didn’t want people to see some of the “tweets” he posted on his Twitter page during the two-hour sweat fest. …
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is crediting a recent reduction in the county’s crime to a crackdown on illegal immigrants.Of course! Because U.S. citizens never break the law.According to Thomas, the percentage of illegal immigrants sentenced for felonies dropped by 18.5 percent this year — not because they stopped breaking the…
How much would you pay to not eat for 36 hours and then sit in a hot steamy make-shift tent with about 60 people in search of spiritual awakening?To be honest, that sounds worse than a prison sentence, but the participants in last week’s tragic sweat-lodge incident at Angel Valley…
Forget President Obama — one of Arizona’s own won a 2009 Nobel Prize (and there’s no doubt that she earned it). Elinor Ostrom, a faculty member at both Arizona State University and Indiana University, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shares jointly with Oliver E. Williams at the University…
A biologist at the University of Arizona made an interesting discovery that might make some people think twice before heading for the hills when they find a spider in the house…
How big of a deal was Friday’s WNBA championship game in Phoenix? Well, consider this: the only other times a basketball team’s won a championship in this city, it was the Boston Celtics beating the Phoenix Suns on our home court in 1976, and then the Chicago Bulls beating the…
Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie performed some late-game heroics in the Cards’ victory over Houston on Sunday The (2-2) Cardinals’ 28-21 victory over the (2-3) Houston Texans Sunday in Glendale came in a way that would even raise the blood pressure of the 1980 “Kardiac Kid” Cleveland Browns. After taking a 21-0 lead into halftime, the Birds…
Phoenix will get its first railroad quiet zone at the end of this month. The zone, on the southern end of downtown along Harrison Street between Third and Fourth avenues, has to be re-certified each year, and has cost an estimated $100,000 in privately raised money so far…Crews rescued a…
Say what you will about our Yankee brethren, the editorial writers at the New York Times have consistently seen the immigration situation in Maricopa County through an unfiltered lens. This is because the Times’ unsigned, editorial writer of all opinion pieces having to do with immigration and Arizona has visited…
In Joe Arpaio’s press conference last week, and since then on several news shows, the sheriff has insisted there is a law in the federal code that allows him to continue his anti-immigrant sweeps without his 287(g) field authority. This is the power stripped from him recently by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement,…
Glenn Beck has some fun at Arpaio’s expense on Beck’s Fox TV show I normally loathe Glenn Beck and his smarmy posturings, but I may have to reconsider that attitude after watching Beck mercilessly mess with our geriatric top gendarme on his Friday show. At points, Beck openly makes fun…
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: Up on the Sun: Curtains: Phoenix Theatre’s Curtains Chow Bella: Thinking About Shacking Up With a Vegetarian?…
What could someone possibly need with 660 boxes of pseudoephedrine? That was the question Arizona Department of Public Safety officers were asking a Las Vegas man after they found an absurd amount of cold medicine in his car, and it didn’t take long for them to figure things out…
There was a “happy ending” to the month of September for Mesa Mayor Scott Smith as his crusade against “rub-n-tug” massage parlor yielded some results.Since September, a police task force has made 20 prostitution busts related to massage parlors in Mesa…
GQ magazine just published a damning portrait of Sheriff Joe by writer Alexander Provan titled “The Vigilante,” and it couldn’t come at better time. I know from experience that way too many reporters who come through town get snowed by our irascible, bulbous-nosed sheriff. They find him colorful and often…
Three years ago, Suns fans considered Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers their personal bitches. Two years ago, D-Backers openly lampooned the hapless, pre-Joe Torre L.A. Dodgers. Last year, Arizona Cardinals fans noisily pooh-poohed the antics of the San Francisco 49ers and the team’s head coach, Mike Singletary, who dropped his…
The Arizona Cardinals narrowly avoided making history today, as Sunday’s game against the Houston Texans finally sold out.The Cards have sold out all of the 36 games at University of Phoenix Stadium and without the extension, Sunday could have been the first time the team failed to sell out the…
