Sandra Day O'Connor

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

Flashes

Red Hot Chile Paperwork

Best Public Art

Ceiling of the Special Proceedings Courtroom

Siege Mentality

County Attorney Andrew Thomas is attempting to capitalize on a national trend by attacking local judges

Anna Deavere Smith’s The Arizona Project Spotlights Sandra Day O’Connor and a Generation of Overlooked Women

County Attorney Andrew Thomas is attempting to capitalize on a national trend by attacking local judges

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army of Thousands Against Arpaio's Racist Rule

De la Rocha, raging against Arpaio and Janet Napolitano. My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's imm ... More >>

Saturday's Anti-Arpaio Protest in Multimedia

Jonathan McNamaraZack de la Rocha leads the way during Saturday's parade. See more shots in our slide show. Helmed by Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, Saturday's parade culminated in thousands demonstrating their values on the steps of the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse. Once ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha, Mesa Strong Beer Festival and Myst's 5 Year Anniversary Over the Weekend

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

Arizona State University's Future Arts Research is Shortsighted in Failing to Focus on Phoenix

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

Light-Rail Stations Ride the Line Between Public Art and Construction Detail

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

The Arizona Project

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman isn’t afraid to step on a few toes as he waltzes into his second term

Zack de la Rocha Leads an Army Against Joe Arpaio's Racist Rule: My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O'Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigratio ... More >>

Savage Love

Testing familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 29, 2006

Testing familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

Haute Houses

The latest local architectural trend glosses over the desert

Open Borders

Mending Wall illustrates dangers of emigration

Courting Death

U.S. Supreme Court says don't short-change death clients

Judge Knot

JP posse sticks to its guns in decades-long battle to clean up it judicial corral

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched . . . and watched

Building History

The new glass-and-steel federal courthouse shatters the image that government structures have to be stodgy

Night & Day

April 29 - May 5, 1999

O'CONNOR'S COURAGE

April 29 - May 5, 1999

Claude Lemieux, NHL Hockey Player, to Become U.S. Citizen in Phoenix Ceremony

NHL Player Claude Lemieux, originally from Canada, will become a U.S. citizen in a ceremony this Friday in Phoenix with 99 other immigrants. Lemieux, 43, a Valley resident, is a comeback kid who now plays with the San Jose Sharks after a stint with a People's Republic of China team, the China Shar ... More >>

Hot Links: Tempe Town Lake, ASU Downtown, and Salty Dog

​John Jay O'Connor III, husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died. O'Connor, 79, died of complications stemming from Alzheimer's Disease on Wednesday. Memorial services will be private...After a pickup truck went into Tempe Town Lake on Wednesday, divers searched the w ... More >>

"Fluffy Bunny Crew" One of Three Street Gangs Busted by DPS

Department of Public Safety DPS officers taking a "fluffy bunny" into custody during yesterday's gangster roundup.​In the past, criminal street gangs have used names that strike fear in the hearts of their rivals. The Bloods, the Crips, the Jets, the Sharks -- all have an intimidating conno ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Grand Jury Probe Begins, One Witness' Lawyer Expects Investigation to Last "Six Months"

Maricopa County Manager David Smith (left) with his attorney Michael Black, outside the federal courthouse in PhoenixThere was a chill, and dare I say it, a thrill in the air for some, on this winter Wednesday morning, the first day of a federal grand jury looking into criminal abuses of power by Sh ... More >>

Hot Links: Sandra Day O'Connor, Stabbing, and "Gothic Kittens"

​Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak in Mesa today to dedicate a new municipal court. The court, located at 250 E. 1st Avenue, is a 97,000 square-foot facility. O'Connor will be joined by Arizona Supreme Court Justice W. Scott Bales...The Arizona Diamonbacks lost last ... More >>

Rick Romley Checks Sheriff Joe's Power, the MCSO's Paul Chagolla Gets His Back Up, and U.S. Marshal David Gonzales Scores

​Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will speak in Mesa today to dedicate a new municipal court. The court, located at 250 E. 1st Avenue, is a 97,000 square-foot facility. O'Connor will be joined by Arizona Supreme Court Justice W. Scott Bales...The Arizona Diamonbacks lost last ... More >>

Sandra Day O'Connor Says Arizona Has To Prove It's Not a "Biased" State

O'Connor with Reagan back in the day: Now the nativists will probably brand her as a traitorIn an interview with George Stephanopoulos for ABC's Good Morning America, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said that her native Arizona has to "put a good step forward to show that Arizona is ... More >>

Sandra Day O'Connor Still on Supreme Court? Many Americans Seem to Think So, Survey Claims

Sandra Day O'Connor: No longer a Supreme Court justice (write that down, America).​If you think former Supreme Court Justice -- and Arizona native -- Sandra Day O'Connor is still a member of the U.S. Supreme Court, you're not alone but you're wrong -- she retired from the bench in 2006. Don't feel ... More >>

SB 1070 Showdown at the Sandra Day O'Connor Courthouse, Round One

Attorney Stephen Montoya (center) with Phoenix police officer David Salgado (left) and CPLC President Edmundo Hidalgo (right) With the cries of demonstrators on both sides of the SB 1070 debate reverberating inside the steamy glass cage of Phoenix's Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthous ... More >>

Anti-SB 1070 Protests Announced for All Arizona

Statewide anti-SB 1070 protests begin this week A coalition of activist groups including Somos America, Sal Reza's Puente Movement, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network has just announced that tomorrow they'll be detailing a series of anti-SB 1070 protests and actions that will be o ... More >>

SB 1070 Field Day: Judge Susan Bolton May Enjoin Law in Part

Governor Brewer, outside federal court ThursdayIn a day filled with protests, arrests, legal arguments, an appearance by the governor, and at least one certified neo-Nazi, the most significant developments in the SB 1070 saga happened within the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix, n ... More >>

SB 1070 Civil Disobedience, Arrests: The Dennis Gilman Video

Gilman's latest on yesterday's arrestsAs I was locked in SB 1070 legal hell Thursday, eyeballing the two proceedings in front of U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, I missed a lot of the action outside the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse in Phoenix where the hearings were taking place.While legal ... More >>

SB 1070 Rage: Salvador Reza, Alfredo Gutierrez, Scores of Others Arrested in Phoenix

Rubin Lucio and the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray being arrested at Fourth Avenue Jail today Phoenix exploded today in a fit of anti-SB 1070 rage that only a summer rain seems to have dampened for the moment. Scores of activists including Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the organization Pue ... More >>

"POP! Pop Culture in American Indian Art" blends Warhol and Spider-Man with Ceramics and Beadwork

Rubin Lucio and the Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray being arrested at Fourth Avenue Jail today Phoenix exploded today in a fit of anti-SB 1070 rage that only a summer rain seems to have dampened for the moment. Scores of activists including Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the organization Pue ... More >>

Stingray Sushi Campaign Ads Are Totally Tasteless

​He denies having anything to do with the gigantic photos of two of his political clients -- Joe Arpaio and Vernon Parker -- hanging on the wall at The Grind, but local public relations trickster Jason Rose is happily taking full credit for Stingray Sushi campaign signs popping up around town.That ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Jails Not Audited, Despite What Arizona Republic Claims

Joe's jails get thumbs up from the feds? When javelinas fly... If you read today's Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and ear ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Arizona: Upcoming White Supremacist Wing-Dings in Sand Land

You guys call this a mosh? I've seen old ladies do betterSand Land continues to serve as the spot to be for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and plain ol' racist nativists to party down. Just check out the above video for the 2009 Oi Fest, held yearly in Tonopah, Arizona, and sponsored by the loc ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Latest Loss: 9th Circuit Swats Down Racist Provision of Prop. 200

The "architect" of Arizona's ethnic cleansing laws, stymied by the 9th CircuitTo borrow a phrase from that great modern philosopher Flavor Flav, when it comes to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal's recent ruling on Prop 200, don't believe the hype.Because hype, fake outrage and panic is basically what ... More >>

Neo-Nazi NSM Invades Phoenix November 13: Wanna Do Battle? Why, Send in the Clowns

wikimediacommonsThis is a clown...And so is this, only the one in black is far more ridiculous...A lot of folks have been e-mailing me of late to wonder if I knew that the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement will be back in town on Saturday, November 13, to reprise their performance of last year at ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce and Jan Brewer's Arizona: Hate Crime Stats Climb

democraticunderground Jan Brewer's new Arizona flag? The FBI stats suggest so... As if you need more proof that Arizona is the "state of hate," look no further than the FBI's recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona's number of reported hate crimes increased by more th ... More >>

Sidebar: Fantasy Voter Fraud

democraticunderground Jan Brewer's new Arizona flag? The FBI stats suggest so... As if you need more proof that Arizona is the "state of hate," look no further than the FBI's recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona's number of reported hate crimes increased by more th ... More >>

Businessman Brian Weymouth Gets on the Wrong Side of His Celebrity Partners

democraticunderground Jan Brewer's new Arizona flag? The FBI stats suggest so... As if you need more proof that Arizona is the "state of hate," look no further than the FBI's recently released hate crime report. From 2008 to 2009, Arizona's number of reported hate crimes increased by more th ... More >>

Brian Weymouth (Subject of Our Last Cover Story) Files Lawsuit Against A Bunch Of Folks

Brian Weymouth, a Paradise Valley businessman now facing major felony charges, has filed a civil lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against several county officials and a former business partner. Brian Weymouth, who definitely prefers this photo better to his mugshot. ... More >>

The Life of a State: A Timeline of Arizona's History

Brian Weymouth, a Paradise Valley businessman now facing major felony charges, has filed a civil lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against several county officials and a former business partner. Brian Weymouth, who definitely prefers this photo better to his mugshot. ... More >>

Brian Weymouth Lawsuit of the Day: This One Against The State Liquor Department and Company

We are loathe to spend much more time on the legal doings of Paradise Valley businessman Brian Weymouth, at least until things move forward in the pending major felony criminal case against him.   Brian Weymouth, litigant and current criminal defendant​Hell, we just published ... More >>