A seat on the Phoenix City Council held for nearly five decades by an African American was lost today. Kate Widland Gallego handily beat her opponent, Pastor Warren Stewart, with nearly 63 percent of the vote to represent District 8, a predominately Latino district. In a concession speech, Stewart congratulated…
There are still votes to be counted. But preliminary counts on Election Night show Laura Pastor in District 4 holding a slight lead over her opponent Justin Johnson. Pastor has received 6,819 votes (52.11 percent), about a 4 percent lead over Johnson’s 6,268 votes (47.89 percent)…
Wanna celebrate with the winners, commiserate with the losers of Election Day? The polls closed about 40 minutes ago and candidates should be basking in the well wishes of optimistic supporters at various locations throughout Phoenix…
It’s Election Day. The truth is that most voters have cast their ballots early in the District 4 and District 8 elections. The voters will decide who is going to represent residents throughout central and south Phoenix on the City Council. But the polls close at 7 p.m. tonight, and…
There is precious little time to convince District 8 residents who haven’t voted to cast their ballot on November 5 in favor of diversity — that is, to vote for Pastor Warren Stewart over Kate Widland Gallego in Phoenix’s council race. For the first time in nearly 50 years, the…
Here’s a free piece of advice for all you journalism majors out there: Go to law school. As a lawyer, the hours are the same, you can read and write to your heart’s content, and you get paid a pant-load to make a phone call. No kidding. Reading through invoices…
Before she landed at Go Daddy, the company that made her famous, Arizona gubernatorial candidate Christine Jones co-wrote an important article on necrophilia law. The candidate who made headlines last week after the media discovered her 2004 DUI also publishes a lot, we found, on a blog she keeps called…
Black leaders are holding a press conference today to urge voters to cast ballots on November 5 and to speak out against what they say are attempts to “turn back the clock on political representative equality.” Standing on the steps of the Calvin C. Goode Municipal Building, representatives are planning…
With just a couple weeks remaining until Election Day, a final round of mailers in support of District 4 council candidate Laura Pastor are arriving in Phoenix mailboxes. They feature quotes from Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and State Representative Debbie McCune Davis, both who have endorsed Pastor’s campaign. The fliers…
Former Arizona U.S. Congressman Rick Renzi was sentenced today to three years in prison following his June conviction on fraud and corruption charges. The sentence was a long time coming in this classic case of congressional corruption, but Renzi, a Republican, will finally be doing some hard time. New Times…
Say hello to “GRID” bikes. This morning, city of Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton helped unveil the logo and name of the bicycle-renting program expected to launch by early next year. The bikes are bright green, sport a girly-basket on the handlebars, and come with a high-tech locking system to prevent…
Christine Jones’ DUI story just doesn’t add up. Jones, the former Go Daddy general counsel now running as a Republican candidate for Arizona governor, told an officer during an April 2004 stop that she’d just had one drink, nearly five hours earlier. Yet two breathalyzer tests showed her BAC at…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul “studboi1” Babeu has endorsed Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin for Congress.Perhaps Babeu’s serious that he’s not considering a run for Congress himself…
Today in Found at the Border: Officers at the border busted the old weed in the tortillas trick yesterday in Nogales.U.S. Customs and Border Protection says a 37-year-old Tucson man had 384 pounds of pot hidden among a shipment of fresh corn tortillas…
Senator John McCain’s not too eager to go away.McCain said on a KFYI show that he’s “seriously thinking about maybe” running for reelection in 2016 — the year he turns 80 years old…
Christine Jones, a GOP candidate for governor in 2014 and former lawyer for Go Daddy, was popped for DUI in 2004, records show. That’s right; the woman who was singing for Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a charity event a few days ago was singing the blues in his jail a…
Please see update below with Tim Casey’s whiny objection to the legal fees caused by the bad behavior of his client. Who better to help me inaugurate a new category in this blog, entitled “Bigotry Is Expensive,” than the man known for sucking all of the air out of the…
Christine Jones, the former Go Daddy executive who’s running for governor, is a big fan of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.3TV has the footage of Jones giving a gushing review of the sheriff in front of a crowd, including Arpaio, at a charity event. 3TV also has the footage of Jones, a…
Republican Congressman Paul Gosar and some of his colleagues have been investigating why federal parks were closed during the federal government shutdown.Perhaps someone should send a calculator to Gosar’s office to help him put two and two together…
Justin Johnson and Laura Pastor, candidates in the Phoenix City Council District 4 race, continued delivering some hefty jabs at each other as early voting got underway on Thursday. Johnson, the son of former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson, faces criticism over family properties that are vacant eye sores, for being…
Phoenix officials this week wrapped up the last in a series of four public meetings to gather input on how to fairly eliminate the bank-breaking practice of pension spiking. The City Council Pension Fairness and Spiking Elimination Ad Hoc Subcommittee unanimously recommended preventing employees from using the following streams of…
Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva was among several people arrested in a civil-disobedience demonstration in Washington, D.C. yesterday.Grijalva later posted on Facebook that he “was proud to be at the immigration reform rally in Washington yesterday and to stand with my colleagues in an act of civil disobedience to keep the…
