Sandra Dowling

Wolfswinkel Family to Get $1.4 Million in County Settlement Over Legal Abuses; $5 Million in Total Payouts Thanks to Andrew Thomas and Joe Arpaio

Developer Conley Wolfswinkel, his family and company will received $1.4 million in the largest Maricopa County payout yet to victims of the legal abuses of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. As the county just confirmed, the Wolfswinkels are getting more in this settlement ... More >>

More Fallout From Sheriff Arpaio and Andrew Thomas Corruption: Potential Multi-Million-Dollar Settlement Going to Developer Conley Wolfswinkel and Family

The costs keep climbing for the corrupt acts of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. Late last month, the Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $1.27 million to a former judge smeared with bogus criminal charges, plus another $250,000 to former county Schools Su ... More >>

Exclusive: MCSO Sex Crimes Internal Investigation Reports Online

Portions of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's 10,000-page sex-crimes internal investigation are now available online following a New Times records request. When the massive report was released to the news media and public on February 8, the agency at first refused New Times' request to put it ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Paid, Campaign Computer Guy Also a Maricopa County Employee

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's financial disclosure forms for his re-election campaign show an ocean of greenbacks flowing into the coffers of Summit Consulting, the firm owned by local Republican consultant Chad Willems. Willems is one of the political geniuses who ran former state Senate President Russell ... More >>

Sandra Dowling Loses Lawsuit Vs. Sheriff Arpaio and Maricopa County Alleging Bad Motives in Prosecution

​Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County won a lawsuit this week filed by former County Schools Superintendent Sandra Dowling over the 2005 raid of her home and subsequent prosecution.Dowling launched the lawsuit in 2009, alleging she'd been the target of a conspiracy by Arpaio and members of the B ... More >>

Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

Thomas Lovejoy Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio has Jury Trial Date of April 17

A jury will start hearing the case of Chandler police officer Thomas Lovejoy versus Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio on April 17, a judge has ruled.U.S. District Judge Neil Wake, whose ruling two weeks ago in the case slammed both Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, also ordered a fin ... More >>

A Great Day (Coming): We Invoke Iconic Art For Our 40th and to Honor Community Resistance to Oppression

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Could Face Arrest Warrant Thanks to Supervisors Subpoena

Sheriff Joe Arpaio must comply with a subpoena by May 7 or face some serious repercussions.​The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors are demanding documents from Sheriff Joe Arpaio related to a possible misappropriation of detention funds -- and if he doesn't comply, a county spokeswoman tells New ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 3, 2009

Serving Up Stapley: Why’s the Don Stapley Prosecution a Big Joke? Because the Accusers Are Far Shadier Than the Accused

CBS 5 Follows Up on Joe Arpaio Report Wednesday, Channel 12's Joe Special a Disappointment

I just spoke with CBS 5/KPHO news producer Gilbert Zermeno, part of the award-winning team that put together the recent, blistering report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power that ran at the end of October. That's the one that featured reporter Morgan Loew's interview with former U.S. Attorn ... More >>

Sonoran Alliance Blog and Readers Strike Critical Note on SCA Contribution

Image: www.sonoranalliance.com We asked for comment, we got comment -- from the Sonoran Alliance blog, anyhow. Turns out Shane Wikfors (pictured), who runs the blog, considers church-mate Dan Saban a friend. Who knew? Wikfors slams the infamous attack ad on Saban as "disgus ... More >>

Phoenix Police Summoned After Schools Superintendent Swiped Files from Her Own Office

  Martha Strachan Sandra DowlingPoor Sandra Dowling. The former Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools just can't catch a break. First there was the criminal indictment -- charged with 25 counts related to public corruption, she was presumed to be a crook in newspaper headlines acro ... More >>

Meet the New County, Same as the Old County

Greenberg Traurig Law Firm, Which Earns Big Bucks From Maricopa County, Tapped by County to Review Mystery Donation to Republicans

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Money Shot

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

An "F" for Effort

Sandra Dowling left a huge mess. Now she's trying to stop the cleanup

Amazing! Terry Goddard grows a spine, kicks Sheriff Joke to the curb.

Toughest Sheriff in the Nation Wimps Out

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 10, 2006

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 13, 2006

Flunk'd

The Thomas J. Pappas School gives homeless kids everything they need — except a good education

Mexican Busting

The plumed wonder examines the racial politics of Andy Thomas, then swoops over Sharon Stonewaller and Tent City, where Shaq and a local actor were inside the razor wire

School Daze

The Wilson school district is at it -- again

Yippee

Infighting and back-stabbing are still in fashion this political season

Master of Her Domain

County schools chief Dowling is still a one-woman school board

Sandra-Prowling

County schools chief is target of an AG's investigation and a recall effort

Flashes

Colonel Sandra?

Maricopa County schools chief's foes hope to wing Sandy Dowling's latest power play

Flashes

Sandra D-Minus

Former employees hand county schools chief flunking grade in public ethics

Letters

Letters

Board Games

Maricopa County schools chief Sandra Dowling plays to win--of course, as a governing board of one, she doesn't have much competition

Flashes

The Pampered Politician

Arizona Senator John McCain is ready for a presidential run — if the national press corps has anything to say about it

Statesman or Henchman?

He's already the state's GOP power broker. He'll soon be Arizona's senior senator. Will the volatile John McCain Rule by fear or respect?

CLASS IS OUT

THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT JUST LOVES TO RECALL BOARD MEMBERS. THIS TIME THE FIGHTING VERGES ON THE CHILDISH.