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GOP Ramps Up Campaigns Against Ron Barber, Ann Kirkpatrick, Just 18 Months Before Election

With just 18 months and change left until the 2014 election, the National Republican Congressional Committee is heating up its campaigns against Democratic Congressmen Ron Barber and Ann Kirkpatrick.The NRCC's been actively campaigning against the two since at least April, a whole four months into t ... More >>

Lauryn Hill Returns From the Pop Culture Abyss

Joe Arpaio "Helps" Childhelp: Nonprofit Takes Blood Money Despite 501c3 Status

What do you do when you're Sheriff Joe Arpaio and your name is practically a byword for the neglect of sex crime cases involving women and children? You use your political fundraising machine to shill for a national nonprofit that benefits abused kids, sort of like a petroleum company donating to l ... More >>

Two Ex-Cons Fight for Stakes in a Gold-for-Cash Business

Joe Arpaio's Master Birther Mike Zullo in You Write the Caption

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his birther brigade -- led by chief "investigator" Mike Zullo -- held another press conference this week to announce their new "evidence" that President Obama's birth certificate is a forgery.Not surprisingly, the Cold Case Posse's "evidence" was debunked month ... More >>

Cowboy Ciao Files for Bankruptcy

See also: Marianne Belardi Says Goodbye After 15 years See also: Cowboy Ciao Somm Throwdown On Friday, June 29, Peter Kasperski, owner of Cowboy Ciao in Old Town Scottsdale, filed Chapter 11 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Arizona. According to records, he owes $1.1 million to the Arizona De ... More >>

Richard Miranda, Ex-State Representative, Going to Prison for Stealing From Charity

Former state Representative Richard Miranda is going to prison for a couple years for treating his charity to help out the impoverished as the Richard Miranda Wants More Money Fund.Miranda, a 55-year-old Democrat, won a 27-month trip to prison this morning for stealing from his charity, and then eva ... More >>

Dan Wise, Former Scottsdale CPA, Arrested -- Again -- for Charges Related to Alleged $66 Million Ponzi Scheme

Dan Wise, a former Scottsdale accountant, was arrested yesterday for crimes related to allegedly running a $66 million Ponzi scheme, marking the fourth time he's been arrested in connection with the same scheme.Wise, 55, was indicted earlier in the week on 102 federal charges for the alleged scheme, ... More >>

Russell Pearce: Crossing Line on 501(c)4 Status of Ban Amnesty Now?

Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just taken the bait proffered by Bob Worsley, his opponent in the Legislative District 25 Republican primary for state Senate. And in doing so, Pearce may have further endangered the 501(c)4 status of the organization he currently fronts, Ban Amnest ... More >>

Russell Pearce -- Infamous Already for Assaulting Arizona's Economy -- and His Bigoted Ban Amnesty Now Attack Local Businesses With Boycott

Funny how some conservatives are always against boycotts affecting Arizona businesses, unless they're the ones doing the boycotting. I say this as the nativist hate group Ban Amnesty Now fires up its promised boycott of New Times' advertisers, with shrill messages on BAN's website and Facebook ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Radio Show and Its Potential Legal Problems

The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa's Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he's running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him ju ... More >>

How Insiders Use the College Bowl System to Loot American Universities

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 10th, 2011

In a Strange About-Face, the President Tries to Hack Medical Marijuana Off at the Knees

Russell Pearce's Lobbyist Pal Greg Patterson and the Ties That Bind

espressopundit.comLobbyist Patterson: Licking Pearce's boots clean is just the price of doin' business...The first thing you need to know about Greg Patterson of the right-wing Espresso Pundit blog is that he is a lobbyist. According to the Arizona Secretary of State's website, he has been a re ... More >>

Critics Claim Supreme Master Ching Hai's Followers' Restaurants Featuring Tasty Vegan Fare Front For an Exploitive Movement.

Munnell Memo Investigation Report by Pinal Sheriff Paul Babeu is Overdue

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is still working on the investigation into allegations raised in the "Munnell Memo."​ While chatting with Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu today about border issues, we asked about his months-long investigation into allegations by Maricopa County deputy chief Fra ... More >>

Morning Poll -- Which Has Been More Damaging to Campaign: Ben Quayle's "Dirty" Connection or Steve Moak's Thin Line Between Charity and Profit?

Congressional candidate Steve Moak​Here we are: It's a day before the 10 candidates in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary will learn their fate and it seems, barring some late-round uppercut, all the big punches have been thrown.In particular, two candidates, who are arguably leadi ... More >>

Steve Moak Responds to Criticism of Charity's Connection to His Business; In Response, Ben Quayle Calls for New Legislation

Congressional candidate Steve Moak​Congressional candidate Steve Moak has finally responded to questions posed to him last week by one of his opponents in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.In short, Moak never disclosed a conflict of interest to the IRS when a not-for-profit anti- ... More >>

Steve Moak and Ben Quayle Become Pen Pals -- Pen Pals Who Apparently Can't Stand Each Other

Congressional candidate Steve Moak​Congressional candidates Steve Moak and Ben Quayle have turned to snail mail for their latest round of mudslinging.In letters -- yes, actual, physical letters -- exchanged by the two candidates (and distributed throughout the media by their respective campaigns, ... More >>

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

More Than 20 People Indicted in Huge Kansas City Drug Bust and Sure Enough, Six of Them Are from Phoenix

www.totfarm.com​An indictment was unsealed today in Kansas City, Kansas, that named 20 people involved in a marijuana-distribution ring that has netted more than $22 million over several years, and like many pot-peddling rackets before it, this one originated in Pho ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 19, 2009

If John Shadegg Wants People to Take Him Seriously, He Should Give Drug Companies Their Money Back

Scottsdale Man Pleads Guilty to Bringing in Chinese Viagra-Type Drug and Fraud Charges

What a scammer! Timothy Keay Isaac, 47, pleaded guilty today in federal court to a slew of charges related to his illicit company, which brought into the country a Chinese Viagra-like drug without prescriptions. But this is the part that bugs us: In 2006, Isaac applied for disability benefits from ... More >>

Hot Links: School Bus Crash, IRS Trash, and Google Maps

Two buses from the Roosevelt School District collided near 23rd and Southern avenues yesterday. According to police, one bus rear-ended the other while it was stopped at a stop sign. Sixty students were on the buses, but police say there were no major injuries...Inspectors have found that in the ... More >>

Will the L. Ron Hubbard House Turn a Camelback Neighborhood Into a Scientology Recruitment Mecca?

Seven Pounds Has Will Smith Encoring The Pursuit of Happyness with a Pursuit of Misery

Arizona's homeopathic board is the second chance for doctors who may not deserve one

The Dead Lawyer Made Him Do It

Finally in jail, courthouse scam king Bob Owens plucks his defense from the grave

Off Topic

Not much going on in Campbell Scott's latest

Letters

Letters from the week of October 30, 2003

Spiked

Local chef takes off, and political hopeful is just off

Fighting Bullies

No one likes a bully. So why are Rose Mofford, Janet Napolitano and MTV distancing themselves from Arizona's Safe Schools, Safe Students program?

Burn, Baby, Burn

'Stop urban sprawl!' 'Burn the rich!' 'An acre an hour is obscene!' Is it any wonder some are rooting for the arsonists?

Route Rockin' Ghoulies

The road goads on forever with the Groovie Ghoulies' latest CD, Travels With My Amp

Austintatious

Rock 'n' roll rousers the Van Buren Wheels roll to success at SXSW

Nancy Drew

Once considered a model private fiduciary, Nancy Elliston is now under investigation for allegedly helping herself to thousands of dollars belonging to incapacitated people

Snafu 2000

Phoenix officials told volunteers planning an expensive millennial downtown bash to think big. It seems as though nobody was thinking at all.

"I Am Not a Cook!"

The Mangia Event

Flashes

Letters

Finances With Wolves

Telemarketers rake in millions of dollars by telling donors they're helping Native Americans. But the biggest beneficiary by far is the charity itself.

Recordings

Mexed Results

MANAGEMENT OR BUST

EX-DANCER DEBBY KOSOBUCKI THOUGHT SHE'D BEEN HIRED TO MANAGE A FIRST-CLASS TOPLESS CLUB. NOW SHE BELIEVES SHE WAS MERELY A FRONT TO CONCEAL THE INVOLVEMENT OF A CRIMINAL.

VICTOR OF CIRCUMSTANCESDELBERT MCCLINTON IS FINALLY ROCKING ENOUGH

A WORD TO THE WISE: DON'T GET SICK