Monica Alonzo

S. Renee Greene of Examiner.com Says She Plagiarized Intentionally to Make Point About Low Pay for Writers

S. Renee Greene, examiner.com freelancer until yesterday, called us today to admit she'd plagiarized from the Phoenix New Times, saying she'd done it in protest of the low pay she'd received as a writer for the Examiner website. Greene reached out to us following our Thursday blog post that called ... More >>

"S. Renee Greene," Examiner.com Freelancer, Plagiarizes New Times' Jodi Arias and Sheriff Babeu Stories

Do your own freakin' work, Renee! We're speaking of "S. Renee Greene," one of the citizen-journalists who publishes articles on Examiner.com -- and who ripped off portions of the Jodi Arias feature article published in Phoenix New Times this week. Greene, through her writer's account with Examiner ... More >>

Watch Jan Brewer Brain-Fart Twice While Making Up the Phrase "Belt Bucket"

As Governor Jan Brewer says about the feds, "This is just another . . . (pause) . . . notch in their . . . (pause) . . . belt bucket, if you will."See also:-Jan Brewer Blunders that Feds' National Release of Illegal Immigrants Is Payback, Punishment for Arizona

Luis Vasquez, Former Border Officer, Guilty of Letting 1,200 Pounds of Weed Roll Into U.S.

A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who let 1,200 pounds of weed roll on into the United States on a truck from Mexico was found guilty of several charges by a federal jury.Luis Vasquez faces a maximum of 40 years in prison and a $5 million fine at his sentencing, which is scheduled ... More >>

Pinal County Judge Dismisses PCSO Lieutenant's Lawsuit Against New Times Over "Camp Titties and Beer" Coverage

A Pinal County judge dismissed a lawsuit against New Times, which had been filed over stories on this blog about a member of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's command staff apparently trying to scrub an arrest record from a DPS database.PCSO Lieutenant Blake King filed the lawsuit, alleging New Time ... More >>

Arizona's Top Ten News Stories of 2012

All in all, 2012 hasn't been that bad of a year. Some good stuff transpired, and some of it happened because New Times' scribes made it happen. Usually to some very deserving recipients. The great H.L. Mencken said it long ago, and it still holds true today: "Journalism is to politician as dog is t ... More >>

Richard Carmona Fares Better Than President Obama, but Jeff Flake Will Be Senator

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Richard Carmona pulled in more votes in Arizona than President Barack Obama, but that still left the former U.S. Surgeon General more than 80,000 votes behind Republican Congressman Jeff Flake.Flake will be replacing fellow Republican Jon Kyl in the Senate, as Kyl's ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Triumphant and More Wreckage from Election Night

Last night was 2008 all over again: Obama wins, while those of us who must live in still deeply red Maricopa County lose. That is, those who want justice, racial and ethnic harmony, and competent, effective law enforcement. As in 2008, we are in the minority. Though percentage-wise, we may have g ... More >>

Arpaio Awaits Justice as Election Looms

Joe Arpaio's Teen Foes in Adios Arpaio Rally at State Capitol

More than 100 members of Adios Arpaio, the union-funded movement of Latino high-school students looking to drive Sheriff Joe Arpaio from power, rallied on the lawn of the state House in Phoenix on Thursday afternoon to announce that they're closing in on surpassing their goal of registering 30,000 n ... More >>

Election 2012: Catholic and Mormon Voters Face a Difficult Choice Between Obama and Romney

Religion has played an increasingly dominant -- and sometimes volatile -- role in politics in recent years. But what happens when religious beliefs conflict with a political party's platform? Or when voters have to square conflicting beliefs within their own church? In this week's feature story, M ... More >>

The Mormon Dilemma: What About Mormon Latinos?

Paul Babeu and Ex-Boyfriend Jose Orozco Won't Be Charged With Crimes Related to Messy Break-Up

See also: Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation See also: Demands Grow for Full Investigation into Allegations Against Sheriff Paul Babeu Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's office  announced today that it won't file charges against Pi ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Anti-DREAM Stance on Blast in New Dennis Gilman Video

Gilman skewers Brewer in his latest effort See also: Jan Brewer's Order Has "Absolutely No Basis Under State or Federal Law," ACLU Says See also: Governor Jan Brewer to DREAMers: State Laws Bar You from Drivers Licenses, Public Benefits Regardless of Feds' Immigration Policy Shift See also: Obama B ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 19, 2012

Lacey: America's War on Mexicans Has Gone Too Far

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New Times' Staff Writers and Designers Receive Top Honors from Arizona Press Club, Including for Investigative Reporting, Immigration Coverage and Cover Illustrations

Phoenix New Times won 30 journalism awards, including first-place awards for investigative reporting, immigration coverage, news and opinion blogging and design, from the Arizona Press Club on Saturday night. Staff writer Paul Rubin received a first place Don Bolles Award for Investigative Reportin ... More >>

Are You Buying Paul Babeu's Explanation for Dropping Out of Congressional Race?

Our colleague Monica Alonzo reported late last week that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's dropping his Congressional bid, which might not exactly come as a surprise.What may come as a surprise is his explanation for why he's dropping out of the race, which happens to exclude anything about the abus ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Conversation With Suddenly Former Pinal County Sheriff's Candidate Steve Henry: Best Guess for How That Went Down

The above video (posted by a reader) is our best, hilarious guess as to how the conversation went between Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Chief Deputy Steve Henry, as Babeu essentially had to let Henry know he was reducing his shot at becoming Pinal County Sheriff to zero. You know, for the ... More >>

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Paul Babeu Touts Gay Rights While LGBT Inmates in His Jail Suffer

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Andrew Breitbart's Brandon Darby Incorrectly Claims Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex Is U.S. Citizen

As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic ra ... More >>

Babeu's Reckless and Threatening Behavior Have Enmeshed Him in a Career-Ending Scandal

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Paul Babeu's Self-Portrait in You Write The Caption

​Pinal County Sheriff' Paul "studboi1" Babeu had quite the weekend after New Times broke the story of the sheriff's ex-boyfriend claiming he was threatened with deportation if he disclosed the details of their relationship.Babeu held a press conference on Saturday, denying his ex-boyfriend's alleg ... More >>

Paul Babeu Supports Gay Marriage and Gays in the Military

Dennis Gilman's raw footage of Babeu's Saturday presserIn addition to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's admission to being a gay man during a Saturday press conference, wherein he denied allegations published in my colleague Monica Alonzo's expose concerning deportation threats against his ex-lover, ... More >>

"Shadow Governor" Chuck Coughlin Spews Nonsense About New Times in Post on Sheriff Babeu; Forgets His 2010 Smear of Terry Goddard

​ Chuck Coughlin -- a.k.a. Governor Jan Brewer's "brain" -- defended Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu while taking lame potshots at New Times in a weekend rant on his PR company's blog. We were among the recipients who received an e-mail version of the post from the&nb ... More >>

Arizona Republican Party Hate-Fest Video

Above is videographer Dennis Gilman's take on the state GOP meeting in January, which I covered in a previous post.As you'll see, a lot of Arizona Republicans, not unlike their national counterparts, define themselves by what they hate: President Barack Obama, minorities, gays, and the undocumented. ... More >>

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Border Patrol, YouTube Censored Video, ACLU Says

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo playerThe McLeod video censored by YouTube and CBPWhen you're member of the media and you want to hear about U.S. Customs and Border Protection's latest drug bust, you get an almost instant return call from an agent eager to answer your every questi ... More >>

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New Times Writers, Photographers, and Designers Win AZ Press Club Awards

New Times' Writers, Designers and Photographers Win Honors from Arizona Press Club

Phoenix New Times walked away with nine first place awards Saturday night at the state Press Club's 2010 Best Journalism in Arizona contest -- including for the paper's comprehensive immigration series, "Amongst U.S."The newspaper received more than 30 awards for work during 2010.Sarah Fenske, ... More >>

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New Times Writers Win Aronson Award

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Is KPHO in Mark Spencer's Pocket?

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Press Club Honors Staffers

Phoenix New Times Takes 13 First-Place Awards in AZ Press Club Competition -- Including Designer of the Year

Jasmine Hobeheidar and Peter Storch sweep two Press Club design categories, take three first places, and Storch wins Designer of the Year. ​ Phoenix New Times writers won 26 awards - including 13 first-places -- over the weekend at the Arizona Press Club awards banquet for work publishe ... More >>

Mayor Phil Gordon Can Run, But -- Senate Bill 1070 or Not -- He Can't Hide