Email Author Ray Stern
r Gun sales in Arizona are surging in the aftermath of Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. The Bloomberg news site is reporting that one-day gun sales in Arizona jumped 60 percent yesterday over t... More >>
rWhat kinds of firearms-related bills will Arizona lawmakers be working on in the aftermath of Saturday's mass shooting of 20 peopler Well, it's still early in the new legislative sess... More >>
rSaturday's mass shooting in Tucson has prompted another idea for gun-control legislation: Representative Peter King, a Republican from New York, says he plans to introduce legislatio... More >>
r Arizona's gun laws are on national display following Saturday's shooting, but whether they're "weak" or "strong" depends on whom you ask. According to an article today in the Los Angeles Times, ... More >>
r Large-capacity magazines for firearms are becoming a focus for gun-control advocates following Saturday's shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others. The magazine -- als... More >>
The editor of the Arizona Capitol Times has resigned in what the Arizona Guardian news site calls a "shake-up" of the newspaper's management staff. Matt Bunk joined the Cap T... More >>
r It's never too soon for a domain-name buy, apparently. With Jared Loughner's Glock still cooling, someone bought the URL www.jaredloughner.com on Saturday and began uploading content. A comp... More >>
rGet a rope. Not only is a company from the Midwest pretending to make salsa, but according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, it swiped the name for its swill from a... More >>
r Barnett Lotstein, the face of ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' legal baloney, has been hired at a Scottsdale law firm. Before he quit the job voters gave him in 2008, Thomas typica... More >>
rMore than one rotten Applebee's restaurant is spoiling the bunch. Health inspection reports show that some Applebee's facilities are clean, with well-trained employees. But we're t... More >>
A recent Arizona Republic story about a former top sheriff's deputy running a restaurant should have been included in its commendable series on public pensions, it seemed to us. The story begi... More >>
Outgoing Arizona Congressman John Shadegg has joined the ranks of conservative law professors, writers and policy analysts as a senior fellow at the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute.According to a p... More >>
Marijuana business marketer Al Sobol and local doctor Edgar Suter have teamed up to declare a war, of sorts, against the state and backers of Proposition 203, whom they accuse of plotting to toughen u... More >>
rA new Web site launched by the state of Arizona emphasizes the problem of litter from illegal border crossers and seeks volunteers for cleanups. AzBorderTrash.gov was funded by&... More >>
The Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix has finally confirmed what an anonymous source told us back in October: Backed-up toilet water really did drip into the open surgical wound of a veter... More >>
Proposed restrictions on Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana law are worse than illegal, says one Valley doc -- they're "cruel and unreasonable." Edgar Suter, a Mesa doctor of nucle... More >>
