Fennemore Craig

Jan Brewer's Bigoted Policy Denying Driver's Licenses to DREAMers in Federal Judge's Hands

Few public acts by Governor Jan Brewer have been so odious, so hateful and so obviously unfair as her executive order denying driver's licenses to those young men and women, brought here as children, who benefit from President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. See also: -Jan Brewer No ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Shares Alma Mater with Margaret Hance, Ann Symington

courtesy of Scripps College Gabrielle Giffords in Mennonite garb, 1993. ​An eclectic collection of politically involved Arizona women have graduated from Scripps College, Gabrielle Giffords' alma mater. Margaret Hance, Phoenix mayor from 1976-83 went there. Class of '45. So did Ann Symin ... More >>

Superior Court Judge Pendleton Gaines Dies Following Battle With Cancer

Judge Pendleton Gaines lost his battle with cancer last night.​Some sad news to report out of the Maricopa County Superior Court: Judge Pendlelton Gaines, 66, died yesterday after a battle with cancer.Gaines, an 11-year veteran on the bench, was currently assigned to the court's Criminal Departmen ... More >>

Russell Pearce Shakes Down Scores of Lobbyists, Legally

Pearce's big money-grab, and it's all legalTo cop a line from the Notorious B.I.G., "Gimme the loot! Gimme the loot!"That's what Republican state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce might as well be saying with a recent e-mail announcing a fundraiser on January 7, 2011, just three days before Ariz ... More >>

Tater Tot: Ben Quayle's Smart. He Can Spell Potato. But He Wouldn't Be a GOP Congressional Nominee Without the Name Daddy Dan Made Infamous

The Arizona Republic Endorses Ben Quayle in CD3 Race; Echoes What We've Been Saying About Jon Hulburd for Weeks

James KingBen Quayle​A few weeks ago, we had a chance to ask Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd if he was actually a Republic trying to pass himself off as a Democrat. He insisted he was in fact a Democrat residing under the Democratic Party's "very big tent."We weren't entirely convin ... More >>

Ruth McGregor, Former AZ Supreme Court Chief Justice, Appointed "Special Master" for Maricopa County Disputes

​We wouldn't wish this job on our worst enemy.Seeking to somehow manage the chaos that has engulfed the justice system in Maricopa County -- what with the county's presiding criminal court judge facing bizarre charges, a host of judges accused of being part of a "criminal enterprise," and ... More >>

Bill Gates -- Not That Bill Gates -- Is New Phoenix City Councilman

This is not your next councilman ... but they do share a name. Governor Jan Brewer may have little-to-no-clout with her fellow Republicans at the Statehouse -- she's had to sue them just to get their budget proposal (and even that didn't work). But Brewer still, apparently, has clout at Phoenix Ci ... More >>

How the MCSO Neglected a 14-Year-Old Rape Victim — and Went to Town on Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon

Phoenix City Council Chooses Sal DiCiccio; Gordon, Baier Flip Flop to Lend Support

By a vote of 5-3, the Phoenix City Council today chose former councilman Sal DiCiccio to finish the term of Greg Stanton, who resigned last week to take a job with Attorney General Terry Goddard. DiCiccio was nominated only after the council deadlocked on the nomination of Sal Rivera, an atto ... More >>

The $687,000 question

Revolting Development

The CityNorth project hosed Phoenix taxpayers, but don't look to city leaders for an apology

Back to the Future

The past is catching up with the Vietnamese son of a black American soldier

National Football Cartel

How the Arizona Cardinals and their NFL brethren exert monopoly power to extract billions of dollars from American taxpayers

Taxing Question

Law allows tourism authority to tap $1 billion for stadium construction

Who Gives . . .

Insurance, Business Lobbies Loco . . . over attempts to reform health maintenance organizations

The Law of the Land

Lobbyists ride roughshod over the legislative process, going so far as to write the bills that lawmkers pass

I Totally Object

Arizona's high-stakes high school mock-trial program teaches kids the basics of jurisprudence--including how to recruit a ringer

Flashes

Mental Health MASQUERADE

Litigation over care fo rArizona's mentally ill ended four years ago. Sowhy have private attorneys racked up more than $1 million in fees since then?

POLS TO THE WALL

WHEN A SENATOR WORKS FOR A LOBBYING FIRM

WHAT'S A LITTLE FRAUD BETWEEN FRIENDS?THE LEGISLATURE IS HELL-BENT ON GUTTING ARIZONA'S STIFF SECURITIES STATUES

MEANWHILE, BACK IN THE LOBBY

"THE DEAL" GOES DOWN. INFLUENCE GETS PEDDLED. IS IT ANY WONDER LAWMAKERS ARE GETTING A LIFE---SOMEPLACE ELSE?