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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 >>

First-Edition Book of Mormon Recovered With Help From Eight Law Enforcement Agencies

The theft of a first-edition Book of Mormon, we have discovered, is some serious shit.At least, it was to the eight law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.Jay Linford's been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print Books an ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Serial Liar, Endorses Mitt Romney, Tells the Truth for Once

According to a recent item in the Washington Post's Election 2012 Blog, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has endorsed Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential primary, more than a month after Romney won Sand Land's GOP contest. As a result, Romney immediately called a press ... More >>

Matt Salmon's Big on the New Jesus (Who Claims He Saved Hitler's Soul)

The video above is a rambling from Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-Congressional candidate Matt Salmon, giving his glowing review of an organization founded by an extremely wealthy fellow who's done some prison time, wears a cape, thinks he's the second coming of Christ, and believes crosses on c ... More >>

Brocked Up: Supervisor Fulton Brock Attempted to Cover Up the Sexual Liaisons Between His Wife, Daughter and a Teenage Boy

Attorney Justin Pierce to Fill Kirk Adams Seat in Arizona House

www.jacksonlewis.comAttorney Justin Pierce will serve the remainder of Kirk Adams' term in the Arizona House of Representatives.​There's a new member of the Arizona House of Representatives: attorney Justin Pierce was appointed today to serve the remainder of former Speaker Kirk Adams' term.The Ma ... More >>

Fulton Brock Divorce From Sex Offender Wife Will Not be Sealed, Judge Rules

Susan Brock in her new threads after getting transferred into the custody of the Arizona Department of Corrections to serve a 13-year prison sentence. ​The circus that is the family of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock will continue to play out publicly, the judge hearing Brock's divor ... More >>

Russell Pearce Is His Own Worst Enemy

Morning Poll: Is Susan Brock the Only One to Blame for Sexual Abuse of Teenage Boy?

Susan Brock's going to prison, but it seems others could have prevented some of the abuse of her teenage victim.​Susan Brock, the wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sentenced to 13 years in prison yesterday for the three-year sexual relationship she had with a teenage boy her fam ... More >>

Fulton Brock Tried to Hide Evidence of Affair Between Wife and Teenage Boy, Prosecutor Alleges at Susan Brock Sentencing Hearing

How much did Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock really know about his wife's relationship with a teenage boy?​As we mentioned in our prior post, Susan Brock, the somewhat-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sentenced to 13 years in prison this afternoon for ha ... More >>

Lisa Davis Talks Mormon Molester At Changing Hands Book Reading

Our onetime colleague Lisa Davis (one of our personal faves) showed up at the Changing Hands bookstore in Tempe last night to read from her newly published book, "The Sins of Brother Curtis: A Story of Betrayal, Conviction, and the Mormon Church " a chilling expose of a Mormon pedophile an ... More >>

Minnesota Man Breaks into Mormon Church to Piss on Floor and Have a Smoke

Scottsdale PDJudging from those eyes, Jacob Jeffrey Shwartz's alleged "drug impairment" may be from some Mary J. Wanna.​When you have the urge to break things, urinate, and smoke cigarettes, where better to do it than a Mormon church, right? Wrong -- just ask Minnesota native Jacob Jeffrey Schwart ... More >>

Russell Pearce Versus J.T. Ready in Dennis Gilman's New Video

Pearce vs. Ready: The Dennis Gilman videoWho's more credible: Arizona's best-known neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, or state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce? Watch Dennis Gilman's latest, and you be the judge. In it is some never-before-seen footage of Pearce endorsing Ready for Ready's 2006 Mesa city cou ... More >>

When Valley Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Converted to Mormonism, Guess Which Prominent Politico Ordained Him an "Elder"

Russell Pearce, Bad Mormon? At Least According To the Utah Compact

Looks like Pearce opposes his own church on immigration... When I first began reporting on immigration and Sand Land politics several years ago, I was under the mistaken impression -- because I'd never lived in an area so heavily influenced by the LDS before -- that most Mormons were like neo- ... More >>

Over the Rainbow: Matt Salmon's Son Wants to Make a Name For Himself in Republican Politics -- Only He's Gay

South Park Creators Penning The Book of Mormon, the Musical

​Just when you thought Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn't get any more offensive, they did it. According to TwentyFourBit, Parker and Stone are making a Broadway musical about Mormonism."Growing up in Colorado, a lot of our friends were Mormons and we always thought their book would make a great ... More >>

Hot Links: Spa Refunds, Cave Creek Fire, and Tovrea Castle

​Today, 30,000 doses of the swine flu vaccine will be available at 30 elementary schools around the Valley. The shots will be administered by Mollen Immunization Clinics, which will be set up at the schools. Mollen CEO John Roehm said most insurance plans cover the flu shot...The owner of two defu ... More >>

Judge Bars Divorced Man from Taking His Kids to Mormon Services

Hot Links: Teen Birth Way Up In Arizona; Arpaio Pimps Reality Show With Conan O'Brien; Criminal Probe Starts Over Missing Chandler Architect

All that abstinence education, and no abstinence: Arizona teen birth rates are skyrocketing. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio appears on Late Night With Conan O'Brien to market a Fox reality show -- news reports focused on the "sign of the apocalypse" quote by O'Brien, but the interview was lightw ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 8, 2009

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 23, 2008

Hot Links: Goddard Sues Phoenix Country Club, Mormons Battle Same-Sex Prop, Ex-Canadian Profiled by MCSO, and Racist "Obama Waffles" Cause Gag Reflex.

Where would the Mormons be without Mexicans?

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 26, 2007

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, April 19, 2007

Alt-Fuels Crook Keels Over

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 7, 2006

Monument Valley

The plumed wonder hates to agree with GOP gun moll Ann Coulter philosophically, but about our 9/11 memorial . . .

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 8, 2006

Authorities Swarm Polygamists

State and federal law enforcement launches a multifaceted campaign against fugitive fundamentalist Mormon Prophet Warren Jeffs and his followers

Forbidden Fruit

Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children

Under Siege

Polygamists are barricading their homes in the midst of mounting legal assaults by authorities

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Selfish
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Letters

Letters from the week of Thursday, April 21, 2005

Letters

Letters from the week of March 31, 2005

Too Little, Too Late

The governor needs to help abused women and children in Colorado City. Now.

Double Exposure

Arizona's finally followed Utah's lead and launched serious action to stop abuses by polygamists

Politics Over Principle

Napolitano and Goddard exhibit cowardly conduct in the polygamy probe

First Strings

Giving the symphony a sporting chance

Fornicating for God

As the case of a snatched Mormon girl from Salt Lake City unfolds, polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border face legal scrutiny

Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona

For decades the state has let a feudal colony of fundamentalist Mormons force underage girls into illegal polygamous marriages

An Abbreviated History of Polygamous Communities

Cover-Up (Arizona Attorney General internal memo)

Arizona faces a "Waco-level" threat from Mormon fundamentalists.

My Own Private Utah

SLC Punk! is a sorry state of affairs

Gilbert's One-Man War on Crime

Some Hacked-Off Smokers

The struggle to undo Mesa's antismoking law ranges from the reasonable to the hysterical

The Shape of Things to Con

Snell Johnson is a well-known sculptor. Some investors know him best as a con artist.

THE YEAR OF LIVING LITERALLYBEST-SELLING AUTHOR DEBORAH LAAKE SURVIVES SUCCESS, CONTROVERSY, MALIGNANCY

THE PRODIGAL SONWHEN YOU'RE CHAIRMAN OF GAME AND FISH AND YOUR FAMILY IS IN THE TIMBER BUSINESS THAT'S HOW YOU FEEL