John Dickerson

A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

Libertarian Drew Carey & Reason.tv take on Pinal Co.'s retarded dancing ban.

New Times Earns 17 Arizona Press Club awards

Over the Weekend: Top Chef, Native American Basketball and Romantasy Cabaret

In Your Own Words: Scott Coles, Sam Vagenas, MCSO and more

You Asked for It: Brian “Head” Welch

Letters from the issue of Thursday, April 24, 2008

Hart v. Arpaio civil rights class-action suit awaits verdict

Fox Reality Channel to Air Lame Arpaio Reality Show in December.

Anything to get the boob on the boob tube, eh, Joe? Say you're sick of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's aged, authoritarian blowhole? So much so that the mere sight of his flaccid turkey neck and oily pate causes the sudden need to blow chunks and an insatiable desire to kick a puppy in the nads? Well, the ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 1, 2009

Anything to get the boob on the boob tube, eh, Joe? Say you're sick of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's aged, authoritarian blowhole? So much so that the mere sight of his flaccid turkey neck and oily pate causes the sudden need to blow chunks and an insatiable desire to kick a puppy in the nads? Well, the ... More >>

Paul Chagolla, Expert Propagandist for Sheriff Arpaio, Gets Promotion

As a public information officer for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Paul Chagolla has a widespread reputation for getting nasty when local journalists fail to buy into whatever propaganda he wants to sell. And that means, from Arpaio's point of view, he must be do ... More >>

Lo and Behold: Another Jail Video Exists, and it Still Doesn't Show an Inmate's Death at the Hands of Joe Arpaio's Deputies

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's attorney, Michelle Iafrate, has doled out still another installment of jail video footage to New Times, and again it doesn't show how an inmate wound up dead in the custody of sheriff's detention officers. It's the third release in a contentious public records battle that ... More >>

SHERIFF LAWBREAKER: Joe Arpaio's Jails Lose Accreditation Again, and Again, and Again

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

The Bird Dogs Joe Arpaio About Conan O’Brien and His Actions in the West Valley

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 8, 2009

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 4, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 27, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 30, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 2, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

New Times Staffers Weigh In on Why They’re Not Leaving Phoenix Anytime Soon

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 25, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, September 18, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Was Juan Mendoza Farias beaten to death by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s guards?

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Brian "Head" Welch In-Store

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, August 14, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, July 24, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, July 10, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Green Fatigue: Is anyone else sick and tired of eco-chic?

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

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

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 20, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 13, 2008

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

The Bird wonders why Sheriff Joe Arpaio put a U.S. citizen behind bars for simply appearing Mexican

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Math-challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio can’t account for the $41 million he’s cost taxpayers

How much is this egomaniac gonna cost us in the longrun? The county'll have bupkis before it's all over with. Who shot down the sheriff (metaphorically speaking), and for the second time, no less? The National Commission on Correctional Health Care, which as of Friday rejected an appeal of an earli ... More >>

Money Shot

If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 27, 2007

If Maricopa County supervisors wanted to go after Sheriff Joe Arpaio, they could. They could focus on his office's finances

Information Blockade

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 22, 2007

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 15, 2007

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

New Times Wins Arizona Press Club Awards

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Mark Trombino

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Former New Times Writer Honored

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Joe Arpaio, Soldier of Fortune Cover Boy, Channels His Inner Mr. Magoo

from SOF Does this mean we can drop him behind enemy lines in Afghanistan? Purty please...? It should be no surprise that a cheesy, old-man's magazine like Soldier of Fortune would stick our septuagenarian sheriff's mug on the cover and proceed to pucker up to him in a puff pie ... More >>

Joe Arpaio a "Torturer on U.S. Soil," Says NPR Opinion Piece

Torturer with a badge? You don't have to convince us...​An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio's Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "a ... More >>

Concrete Bungle: Tempe’s Twin-Towers Condo Project Collapses Financially, Leaving Investors in the Rubble

Torturer with a badge? You don't have to convince us...​An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio's Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "a ... More >>

New Times Staffers Honored

Torturer with a badge? You don't have to convince us...​An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio's Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "a ... More >>

Grant Goodman, Phoenix Probate Attorney Once Lauded by Arizona Republic, Blasted Financially by Federal Judge

Our former colleague Sarah Fenske (now toiling as the managing editor at our sister paper in St. Louis, the Riverfront Times, wrote a cool story last April about a shady and shaky attorney named Grant Goodman. Bernie Madoff, the crook who's got to be near and dear to attorney Grant Goodma ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Pleads for More Millions, as Juan Farias Mendoza's Ghost Looks On

Consider this the first anti-Arpaio ad for 2012, ironically produced by Arpaio's goons, and censored heavily by them as well....He's cost taxpayers $100 million in swiped county funds, has the blood of unfortunates such as Juan Farias Mendoza on his hands, was forced to settle to the tune of $1 mill ... More >>