Michael Lacey

Michael Lacey Talks About Selling New Times and Village Voice Media to Trusted Colleagues

Michael Lacey Says Newspaper Chain He Co-Founded Will Continue Quality Journalism Under Its New Ownership

Michael Lacey says he wouldn't hesitate to put his children in the care of the management team that just bought the newspaper chain he helped start 42 years ago. In fact, he feels like that's almost what he did. It was announced Sunday night that Village Voice Media had agreed to sell its 13  ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Joins Lawyer Dennis Wilenchik on the Hook for 2007 Arrests of VVM Executive Editor and CEO

See also: Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution See also: Who's Sorry Now? Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career See also: New Times Will Appeal Ninth Circuit Court Decision See also: Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio Et Al to Be Heard by Full Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals See also: Joe ... More >>

Andrew Thomas' Ex-Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik Appointed to Real Estate Board by Governor Jan Brewer

File this one under "outrage du jour": Dennis Wilenchik, the former special prosecutor whose runaway investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin, has been appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to sit on Arizona's Real Esta ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Lawyer Grilled by Ninth Circuit About Why Sheriff Should Remain Exempt from New Times' False-Arrest Lawsuit

Sheriff Joe Arpaio​Editor's note: This post was written by Peter Jamison, who covered the hearing for us and our sister paper, the SF Weekly: An 11-member panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had tough questions today for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ... More >>

New Times Wins Appeal; Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio -- et al -- to Be Heard by Full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

www.northersun.com​The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled today that it will re-hear New Times' lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and others over the 2007 arrest of its founders on bogus charges that it published an article about "secret" grand jury testimony about a grand ... More >>

New Times Will Appeal Ninth Circuit Court Decision on Its Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio, Andrew Thomas, and Others

New Times Writers Win Aronson Award

UPDATED: Where Are #Wikileaks Media Friends? UPDATED

www.wikipedia.comWikiLeaks founder Julian Assange​See our UPDATED story here.Where are the First Amendment's establishment warriors as government-spooked businesses try to shut down Wikileaks?Hackers with computers, not hacks with press passes, have been the first line of resistance. More to come. ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 22, 2010

Goddard and Obama Must "Do the Right Thing" and Stop Abuses of Power by Thomas and Arpaio

Michael Lacey​State and federal officials must use the "blade" provided by Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk to cut down the "nooses" Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas have dangled across Maricopa County, New Times' executive editor writes in his column this we ... More >>

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New Times’ Lawsuit Continues, Stern’s “Disorderly Conduct” Charge Dropped, and We Ask a Judge to Force Joe to Release Video of a Suffocated Inmate's Last Minutes

Federal Judge Dismisses Certain Claims in New Times' Lawsuit Against County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The Case Will Move Forward

Ray Stern is Freed: Charges Against New Times Reporter Dropped in "Disorderly Conduct" Case

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, September 11, 2008

New Times adds 17 Arizona Press Club awards to our list

New Times Honored for Ethics in Journalism

New Times Earns 17 Arizona Press Club awards

New Times owners sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and lawyer Dennis Wilenchik

Lacey, Larkin receive award

New Times founders honored for support of civil liberties

AZ ACLU honors New Times founders Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey as Civil Libertarians of the Year.

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

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 22, 2007

PHX attorney Mike Manning demands that Thomas, Arpaio and Wilenchik not destroy docs related to Lacey/Larkin arrests.

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Who's Sorry Now?

Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants us to apologize to Sheriff Joe. Fat chance

UPDATE: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MIKE LACEY AND JIM LARKIN RELEASED FROM SHERIFF'S CUSTODY, VOW TO FIGHT ON.

BREAKING NEWS: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MICHAEL LACEY AND JIM LARKIN ARRESTED!

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Make That a Double!

Starting a paper's not for the faint of heart. Duh!bya's Justice Department kooks made ending one even more harrowing.

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