Saudi Arabia

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 29, 2012

Eric Bachmann of Crooked Fingers Tried to Give Up Music

Michele Bachmann: "America's Failure to Secure the Border is Now a Terrorism Issue"

James King Michele Bachmann with state Senate President Russell Pearce and Congressman Trent Franks. Yikes.​Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann was in Phoenix this morning, where she met with local politicos at the State Capitol to talk about illegal immigration and, to quote Senator J ... More >>

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon's Global Travels Tied to Girlfriend's "Global Connections" Company?

​Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon wasn't always a travelin' man. Believe it or not, the man who is now jetting off to places like China, Qatar, Dubai, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, was once known for his aversion to hopping on a plane and leaving Phoenix.   While he touts his travels as a means to s ... More >>

Gold Rush: Soaring Prices, Unscrupulous Precious-Metals Dealers, Right-Wing Paranoia -- We've Been Down This Yellow-Brick Road Before

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, In an Arpaio-esque Move, Refuses to Answer New Times' Questions Unless They're Sumbitted in Writing

​ Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon has established a new policy: He will no longer speak personally with New Times or the Arizona Republic. He will only accept questions from the publications if reporters submit them in writing.How very Joe Arpaio-esque.What's next? Will the mayor start banning ... More >>

Windmills in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec Screw Over Landowning Farmers

At first glance, the Arizona Republic's business-section article today on windmills in La Venta, Mexico, looks like more happy news about "clean" energy. It's headlined, "Living off the wind," and shows a bucolic scene of cows grazing near towering windmills. A graphic about the ultra-windy Isthmus ... More >>

CityNorth: With Nordstrom Gone, Phoenix Fights for the Right to Bail Out Abu Dhabi

Saudi Prince Receives Junket of U.S. Mayors, Including Phil Gordon; Phoenix is Largest City Represented

Mayor Phil Gordon knows what it's like to be a big fish in a small oasis during a junket to Saudi Arabia this week with nine other U.S. mayors: Phoenix is by far the largest city represented. Middle Eastern media reports the mayors were received today by the Acting Governor of Riyadh, Prince S ... More >>

Junket to Saudi Arabia for Mayors Includes No Women; Mayor Phil Gordon and Nine Men Selected by Mayors' Group

Image: City of Phoenix Mayor Gordon recently signed a pact with DubaiPhoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and nine other mayors will travel to Saudi Arabia this month on a junket paid for by the Saudi government, Arizona Republic reporter Scott Wong reports this morning. When we looked at the list of ma ... More >>

Saudi Arabia to New Times: 10 Out of 10 Males on Junket is "Coincidence;" Offers "All Female Mayors" Trip

Image: Wikimedia CommonsWe just received word from the Saudi Arabian embassy following our inquiries about the all-male junket of U.S. Mayors in which Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon taking part.Interestingly, we hadn't e-mailed the embassy (though perhaps, in hindsight, we should have). Rather, our ... More >>

Phoenix FBI Office Gets Experienced New Boss, Nathan Gray

Nathan Gray, a veteran lawman with experience in counter-terrorism and big-time drug smuggling, has been selected to head up the FBI's Phoenix office. The FBI didn't put out a picture of Gray, but posted a bio of him today on its Web site. Gray previously worked here in 2002 as an assistant spec ... More >>

Former President Jimmy Carter Discusses Bringing Peace to the Middle East, President Obama, and Raising Kids in the White House

photo from Carter's book We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land President Carter signs his latest book at Changing Hands this Friday.It's not every day you get to chat with a former President of the United States. And since President Jimmy Carter will be in town on Friday, signing copies of his b ... More >>

Sonoran Alliance Story on Banned Bible Study Changes Departments

Seems the anonymous "Chewie" over at Sonoran Alliance blog doesn't know his DES from his DOR.As we reported yesterday, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Economic Security told us that, despite what Chewie had reported, her cafeteria was Bible-thumper accessible. (She didn't use that exact ph ... More >>

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, September 4, 2008

Morgan Spurlock attempts political commentary with Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? but falls short of Michael Moore

Sundance 2008 leaves just a handful of buzz-worthy movies in its wake

Black Russian

Profile in Courage

An immigrant’s tale from halfway around the world should make us think about what’s going on closer to home

Shoot 'Em Up

Fighting the enemy over there

Darrell Ankar-low Brow

Church of Light

Emission possible

McCain Shame

The political parrot previews a copy of Dennis DeConcini's new book, in which John McCain's portrayed as a backstabbin' scalawag

Da Mayor's Debacle

The foul fowl crows over Scottsdale's vote-down of the anti-lap-dance prop, a major slap-down of Mayor Mary Manross

War Games

Colonel Kreme and Staff Sergeant Jett dive-bomb Mardi Gras for the Mother of All Sadisco Battles

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 30, 2006

Killing Time

A soldier can be his own worst enemy

Gutless Wonders

Here's an idea, county supes: Audit the freakin' sheriff's office for the first time ever!

A Chance to Focus Inward

Ugly urban sprawl's the problem, not drought. Metro Phoenix has water to support 10 million souls

Too Close for Comfort

To Yaser with love.

Raging Bull

Kerry's a wuss. Dubya's a doof. How can anybody vote for either of these clowns?

Letters

Letters from the week of April 22, 2004

Power Vacuum

Arizona's letting the Big Three utilities steal countless millions from us by standing in the way of solar energy

The Gulf Between

When these soldiers became writers, the pen becomes very mighty indeed

Welcome Back Warrior

The government was supposed to take care of mentally disabled Marine combat veteran Brian Callan. It didn't.

Jello Biafra

The Big Ka-Boom, Part One (Alternative Tentacles)

Apocalypse How?

Jerry Brady predicts that al-Qaida will be coming to a power line near you

Crushing a Contrarian

The 'patriotic' squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

The Mane Course

No blue-plait special for this horse braider

Letters

From the week of March 8, 2001

Murality Play

Steven Yazzie creates a media circus

Second Helpings

Letters

A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

For the Halibut

TWIST OF FETA

THE CULT OF KAGANFORMER PHOENIX REPORTER'S CAREER SOARS AS CNN SPORTS ANCHOR

FLASHES, 4-27

CACTUS COPS WERE STICKLERS SUCCULENT SLEUTHES' POSTS ELIMINATED

THE PITA PRINCIPLE