Subject: Goldwater Institute

• The Goldwater Institute takes aim at Sheriff Joe Arpaio; MCSO flack Paul Chagolla spars with KPNX.

  April 2, 2008

• AZ ADL calls on U.S. Department of Justice to investigate Sheriff Joe Arpaio's bogus "crime suppression sweeps."

  April 11, 2008

• The $687,000 question

  May 15, 2008

• Trainplotting

  Transit-plan backers say they see a bus in your future--so how come they've been working on the railroad?

  July 3, 1997

• The Greening of Arizona

  Is money from the sale of environmental license plates being properly spent?

  February 25, 1999

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  November 13, 2003

• Hey, Janet! The Goldwater Institute Has Some Ideas for You

  So things are really bad with the Arizona economy. So bad, in fact, that Janet Napolitano has set up a Web site to solicit ideas on how the state government can save money. Unfortunately for us, those ideas aren't online for public consumption. (We can only imagine just how many yahoos have taken the time to let the Guv know that all she really has to do to balance the budget is drive out more illegals.) So much for our plan to mock them. The good news, though, is that we know she's getting p

  November 19, 2008

• Across Our Blogs

  We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries follow: Janet Napolitano Named as Obama's Top Pick for Head of Homeland Security Veterans Mountain -- Not the Landmark You've Been Looking For Valley Fever: Hey, Janet! The Goldwater Institute Has Some Ideas for You Dramatic Testimony Heard In Mormon Murder Case Alice Lara, Newly E

  November 19, 2008

• Goldwater Institute Calls Out Sheriff Joe: MCSO "Has Lost Sight Of Its Most Essential Priorities"

    The Goldwater Institute has released a harsh critique of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office -- concluding that the office "falls seriously short in all three of the core components of its mission" and calling for policy reform. Among other things, the Phoenix-based libertarian think tank calls for the incoming U.S. attorney to investigate the sheriff's jails and for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors to "regularly and carefully" audit the sheriff's c

  December 2, 2008

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 4, 2009

  June 4, 2009

• Anonymous Blogger Takes Issue With Anti-Arpaio Goldwater Report

  An anonymous local political blog has been getting some right-wing attention this morning with its claim that the conservative Goldwater Institute has "gone way off the deep end" with their critical report on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Liberty's Apothecary has many problems with the Institute's report, but a big one is that it relied in part on reporting by New Times, which the cowardly blogger says prints "lies." Of course, nothing in the blog post specifies which elements of any

  December 4, 2008

• CityNorth Development Threatened After Appeals Court Blasts City's Tax Giveaway

  The Arizona Court of Appeals today struck down Phoenix's giveaway of $97 million in sales tax that was promised to a developer in exchange for building the Kierland-Commons-like CityNorth center. A few months ago, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge ruled in favor of Phoenix's be-kind-to-developers deal after it was contested in a lawsuit filed by the conservative Goldwater Institute.

  December 23, 2008

• New York Times Editorial Blog Names Joe Arpaio, "America's Worst Sheriff"

  Mirror, mirror on the wall...who's the worst sheriff of them all? Snort.Though this will come as no shock to denizens of cactus country, The New York Times' editorial blog -- The Board -- today dubbed our corrupt top constable, "America's Worst Sheriff." Noting Joe Arpaio's recent foray in to trash TV with the new (and soon to be forgotten) Fox reality pilot, "Smile...You're Under Arrest!," our fellow scribblers at The Gray Lady went off on Maricopa County's Pennzoil-pated law man, bitch-slappin

  December 31, 2008

• New York Times Slams Arpaio's Dumb New Reality Show

  I'm on the run this a.m., but I would be remiss if I did not point your attention to this excellent article by David Carr in Sunday's New York Times online concerning our clown of a sheriff, "A Star Turn for a Sheriff on Fox TV." Unlike a lot of other media writers who just end up blowing our top constable in print whenever they pen something about him, Carr did his homework on Arpaio. Indeed, the Gotham scribe carves AZ's ancient law man up like a HoneyBaked Easter ham in this piece about the s

  January 5, 2009

• Goldwater Institute "Not Ruling Out" Legal Action Against Phoenix Coyotes and Glendale

  Jobing.com Arena, where the Phoenix Coyotes play. The Goldwater Institute has submitted a public records request to the City of Glendale, asking for information on lease negotiations between it and the Phoenix Coyotes. Goldwater attorney Clint Bolick told the Phoenix Business Journal that the institute is not ruling out legal action regarding the lease terms between the Coyotes and Jobing.com Arena in Glendale, and wants to examine whether the terms violate state gift laws.

  March 10, 2009

• State Senate to Hold Hearing on Issue of Felony Warrants

    Whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio is using his resources correctly when it comes to serving felony warrants will be among issues discussed at a legislative hearing on Monday. The State Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear testimony starting at 1:30 p.m. on the subject of felony warrants -- a topic well known to Arpaio observers. The hearing promises to be interesting, with planned appearances by law enforcement officials and members of the Goldwater Institute,

  March 19, 2009

• Gambling Department Director Named by Governor Jan Brewer: Mark Brnovich, Legal Scholar

  Goldwater Institute Mark BrnovichLegal scholar, activist, prosecutor and private prison official Mark Brnovich has been appointed director of the Arizona Department of Gaming. Scammers pay heed: This over-achieving barrister is just coming off a stint in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona as a specialist in prosecuting gambling-related crimes. Followers of private-property-rights issues may recall seeing Brnovich's name crop up from time to time. He's a writer and researcher for

  March 31, 2009

• Supreme Court to Hear Phoenix Appeal in CityNorth Case

  Sarah FenskeThe $97 million CityNorth tax giveaway supposedly paid for this parking garage.This just in: The Arizona Supreme Court will revisit the appellate decision that struck down the city of Phoenix's $97 million subsidy of the CityNorth development.Today's decision to grant review is a victory for the city of Phoenix, which had fought for the right to give the project's developers one-half of all sales tax generated at the northeast Phoenix shopping center -- and the Thomas J. Klutznick Co

  June 1, 2009

• The Dirty Truth about "Clean" Elections

  April 2, 2009

• With the Arizona Legislature Signing Off on $1.6 Billion in Budget Cuts, How Can We Justify Music Therapy?

  February 26, 2009

• Sandra Kennedy and Sam George used the Clean Elections system to their advantage — so why was it so hard to get "Team Solar" to talk?

  September 18, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 13, 2007

  December 13, 2007

• Profile in Courage

  An immigrant’s tale from halfway around the world should make us think about what’s going on closer to home

  December 13, 2007

• Revolting Development

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

  September 6, 2007

• Move Over, Ann Coulter

  Meet the woman behind ASU's Caucasian American Men's Club

  May 24, 2007

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 16, 2009

  April 16, 2009

• The Merry Revolutionary

  Clint Bolick is trying to change the world, one lawsuit at at time.

  March 7, 2002

• Press Club Honors Silverman

  Reporter wins NT's sixth consecutive Journalist of the Year award

  May 4, 2000

• Think Tank Warfare

  Barry Goldwater's widow says the conservative institute that bears his name is twisting his legacy

  May 13, 1999

• Sheriff Arpaio's Deputy Chief Twists His Own Words in Public Letter on Warrants

  Paul Chagolla, a deputy chief for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims in an open letter published in the Arizona Republic that his office does enough work serving felony warrants, and that critics on the subject are advocates of illegal immigration. It's difficult for us to believe nearly anything coming from this guy's keyboard. As a public information officer, his job was as much to hide information as release it. Late last month, we told you about how he released jail statistics t

  April 20, 2009

• East Valley Tribune Wins Pulitzer for Series Criticizing Sheriff Joe Arpaio

    East Valley Tribune reporter Ryan Gabrielson and former Tribber Paul Giblin have brought home a Pulitzer prize for their work on a series that exposed apparent racial profiling and wasted resources in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's anti-illegal-immigrant tactics. The newspaper tied with the Detroit Free Press to win in the category of Local Reporting. It's the first Pulitzer for the East Valley Tribune. Ironically, Giblin was laid off in early January as part of the Tribune's ma

  April 20, 2009

• Tattoo Parlor Vs. Tempe: Oral Arguments to Begin in Case Defended by Goldwater Institute

  Image: http://www.virtualrealitytattoos.lbu.com Arguments are set to begin Monday morning in a case that pits the would-be owners of a Tempe tattoo parlor against officials who think the business is seedy. Tom and Elizabeth Preston, who already own a tattoo shop in Mesa, told the press in 2007, when the lawsuit was first filed, that they wouldn't be able to fight City Hall except for free attorneys provided by the Goldwater Institute. The conservative think-tank believes the Prestons got screwed

  May 8, 2009

• Politicians Burn Taxpayer Cash on "Shameless Self Promotion," Says Goldwater Institute

  www.goldwaterinstitute.orgPoliticians waste millions of your tax dollars pumping up their own names for illegitimate purposes, says a new report by the Goldwater Institute.The author of "Shameless Self-Promotion, How Politicians Use Your Money to Get Re-Elected," is Shawnna Bolick, wife of the Goldwater's director of litigation, Clint Bolick. (The institute does a lot of litigation). Supported by abundant evidence, Shawnna Bolick takes on political heavyweights from Janet Napolitano to Maricopa

  May 14, 2009

• Tattoo Parlor License Revocation by Tempe Ruled Unlawful; City Considering Its Next Move

  Poster from the Prestons' Mesa tattoo shopFollowing a court order, the Tempe City Council will discuss at its meeting tonight what to do next with a the case of a tattoo parlor that had its business license revoked after neighbors complained it might make the area seem seedy.The Tempe City Attorney's office confirmed the court decision announced yesterday by the Goldwater Institute, which is helping litigate the case for the people who want to set up the shop, Tom and Elizabeth Preston. Maricopa

  May 14, 2009

• Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman Will Also Urge Council to Oppose CityNorth

  Morgan Bellinger Hugh HallmanOne day after the Scottsdale City Council voted to oppose the city of Phoenix's $97 million CityNorth subsidy, Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman said he'll ask his Council to consider taking the same action. Challenged by the Goldwater Institute as unconstitutional, the tax giveaway was struck down by the appellate court. The city of Phoenix is asking the Arizona Supreme Court to review the appellate decision and let it give away zillions of our tax dollars -- and, las

  May 21, 2009

• Local Reporter Mark Flatten to Become Investigator for Goldwater Institute

  Image: www.azpbs.org -- Horizon Journalists Roundtable Mark Flatten, an investigative reporter with the East Valley Tribune for more than 20 years, is leaving the newspaper on June 5 to start work as an investigator for the Goldwater Institute.Flatten helped the newspaper on many of its biggest stories and won numerous awards over the years. According to the Arizona Guardian this morning, Flatten will be "producing journalistic-type investigative reports."The Institute is made up of conservative

  May 22, 2009

• Arizona AG Terry Goddard's Home Possibly Staked Out by Joe Arpaio's Office; Patrol Car Photographed

  Terry Goddard says the presence of a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office patrol car near his Phoenix home Friday morning made his family "uncomfortable." "This is not typical, and it made my wife and son uncomfortable," the attorney general said in a prepared statement. "I hope the deputy was engaged in some productive law enforcement effort during that hour and a half." The incident follows reports that Arpaio's office may have been showing up near the home of Superior Court Presiding Judge Bar

  May 22, 2009

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

  May 28, 2009

• Barack Obama's Failure, Joe Arpaio's Trifecta: Brought to You by Dennis Gilman TV

  Gilman's latest, revealing Arpaio's nefarious domino effect... Just curious, but where are the white knights of the Obama administration as Sheriff Joe ignores crimes, intimidates his political opponents, and zip-ties American citizens and those here legally without probable cause? About every six months one news outlet or another reports that the DOJ, the FBI, DHS, or all three are in town, interviewing people about Arpaio as part of ongoing investigations. Personally, I'm tired of hearing it.

  May 27, 2009

• Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Reporter Ryan Gabrielson Leaving East Valley Tribune for UC-Berkeley Fellowship

  The East Valley Tribune is losing another member of its Pulitzer-prize-winning team: Reporter Ryan Gabrielson (right), the lead writer of the award-winning series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is heading to UC-Berkeley to work as a journalism fellow.

  June 12, 2009

• Mad Max Rules: The Arizona Legislature's Mandatory Handgun Ownership Laws

  pic by Joshuashearn Coming soon to an athletic sock or purse near you... Just when you thought our gun-lovin' legislature had gone as far over the deep end into Mad Max territory as possible, our lawmakers up and make gun ownership mandatory for all lads and ladies 21 and above. Okay, so not explicitly, but under the bills proposed by the legislature's firearm freaks, you'd better be strapped with your gat, 'cause there'll be no more fist fights in Sand Land. Under Senate B

  June 22, 2009

• Mark Sanford, the Cheatin' South Carolina Governor, Writes Fundraising Letter for Goldwater Institute at Wrong Time

  The Arizona Republic's Matthew Benson has an amusing local hook on the Mark Sanford scandal: Seems Sanford just wrote a fund-raising letter for the Phoenix-based Goldwater Institute that's causing some embarrassment.

  June 25, 2009

• High School Students V.S. Immigrants: Who Makes the Grade?

  Arizona Department of Education Superintendent Tom Horne If they weren't born here, 96.5 percent of Arizona high school students would not qualify to be United States citizens, according to a study released last week by the Goldwater Institute. The "Freedom From Responsibility" survey shows that only 3.5 percent of Arizona high school students would pass a basic citizenship test - in contrast to more than 92 percent of immigrants, who pass the test on the first try. The survey took ten random

  July 7, 2009

• MCSO Arrest Rate Is "Startlingly Low," Says Goldwater Institute

  Clint BolickThe Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested suspects in less than five percent of its cases in 2007, the Goldwater Institute says -- a shockingly low statistic that contradicts what the Sheriff's Office has long officially maintained.The statistics, which the Goldwater Institute obtained through a public records request, show that the Sheriff's Office cleared just 4.68 percent of its cases by arresting a suspect in 2007. In 2008, the arrest rate was 13.07 percent -- a bit hig

  July 16, 2009

• Goldwater Institute Attempts to Intervene in Coyotes' Bankruptcy

  ​Saying that bankruptcy court might be the only place to stop a deal that forces taxpayers into subsidizing the Phoenix Coyotes, the Goldwater Institute filed a motion this afternoon asking to the judge to allow them to intervene in the case.The motion is filed on behalf of eight Glendale taxpayers. This isn't the first interest the Goldwater Institute has shown in the Coyotes' bankruptcy, but it's the first clear indication that a subsidy from the city to the team might face a lawsuit from th

  July 31, 2009

• Something Smells in Glendale: Did the City Steer the Phoenix Coyotes Franchise to an Insider?

  July 30, 2009

• Something Smells in Glendale: Did the City Steer the Phoenix Coyotes Franchise to an Insider?

  August 6, 2009

• Goldwater Institute Named "Leader of the Year" in Policy Development; Too Bad it Can't Run For Office

  Barry Goldwater​The Goldwater Institute, the Phoenix based government watchdog named after conservative crusader, and former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, was named this year's leader in policy development by The Arizona Capitol Times Monday."The Goldwater Institute works hard to conduct research and develop solutions to strengthen the economy, bring transparency to government, and to protect the constitutional rights of all Arizonans," says Darcy Olsen, president and CEO of the Goldwater I

  August 31, 2009

• Sept. 8 In Blogs: Clint Bolick, The Mars Volta, Z'Tejas, and Valley Monkey

  ​​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: The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon Up on the Sun: The Mars Volta, Kinch, When In AZ, First Friday and Woods Over the Labor Day Weekend Kinch Release New EP with Two Great Shows Chow Bella: This Week: Half Off at Sushi Roku Z'Tejas

  September 8, 2009

• Goldwater Institute Legislative Report Card Released; Russell Pearce Gets an "A-" in "Protecting Freedom"

  ​The Goldwater Institute released its annual legislative report card today, and as a whole, our legislators earned a big fat "C" when it comes to "protecting freedom."

  November 9, 2009