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Freeze-Dried Scrambled Eggs, Emergency Toilets and More at the Honeyville Farms Store in Chandler

See also: The Arizona Survivalist Show: Five Tools You'll Need to Survive, Well, Anything There are quite a few hidden gems in Chandler, not the least of which might be this non-descript office-building-looking retail store located just off the I-10 at Chandler Boulevard. They sell food storage su ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 29, 2011

Russell Pearce's Opponent Jerry Lewis a "No Vote" on SB 1070

Check out these two segments of a recent interview done by Channel 12's Brahm Resnik of state Senate hopeful and conservative Republican Jerry Lewis, who is looking to topple state Senate President Russell Pearce in the Legislative District 18 recall election.In them, Lewis takes on the issue of imm ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Possible Challenger Jerry Lewis, and the Yelping of Pearce's Media Lap Dogs

Channel 12's Brahm Resnik has outed a possible challenger to state Senate President Russell Pearce in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18: Jerry Lewis, and, no, not the cheesy dude on the telethons.Resnik writes in his blog that,"This would be Lewis' first run for elected offi ... More >>

Mormon Church: Legalize Undocumented Residents, Forget Mass Explusion

​ The Mormon church announced last week that it advocates a type of amnesty for illegal immigrants who "square themselves with the law and continue to work" in the United States. The statement, published on the church's website, also takes aim at harsh anti-illegal-immigrant laws like those pa ... More >>

Five Arizona Towns We Think of When Listening to "Alcoholics In My Town"

Wikimedia CommonsWilliam Hogarth's "Gin Lane." Really, it could be anywhere.​Small towns and big boozers go together. If you don't believe that, then you've probably never lived in a small town, where the most exciting thing to do is drink and gossip about how much of a drunkard everyone else in ... More >>

Susan Brock's Teenage Sex Scandal: LDS Bishops Won't Be Charged With Crimes, Pinal County Attorney Says

www.thecheckspot.com​Despite never going to police after they were told that a teenage boy was being sexually abused by Susan Brock, two bishops from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will not be charged with crimes, the Pinal County Attorney's Office says.Get all the deta ... 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 >>

Mormon Church Denies Prior Knowledge of Susan Brock Affair With Teen Boy, Which is a Lie

​The Mormon Church claims it never knew one of its members, 49-year-old Susan Brock, the somewhat-estranged wife of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was sexually abusing a teenage boy before her arrest..This, according to court documents obtained by New Times, is a lie.The church issue ... More >>

April 18 In Blogs: JeanPants, The Decemberists, Over Easy, and the Mormon Church

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

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 >>

Angela Ellsworth on Being Gay, the Mormon Church, and Her Increasing Artistic Success

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 30, 2010

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

Mormon-Owned Deseret News in Utah Lays Off Nearly Half Its Staff

Image: www.nppa.org The Deseret News is pulling an East Valley Tribune move by laying off nearly half of its staff.​Utah's oldest newspaper, the Mormon-owned Deseret News, is laying off nearly half of its staff in a major restructuring based on financial problems. Jay Evensen,&nb ... More >>

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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 >>

Mormon Church Uses T.V. Drag Queen in New Arizona Promotional Ad

www.imdb.comThe Mormon Church's newest spokesman, "Man With Teats."​The Mormon Church has an interesting voice in a new television ad being aired in Arizona and Utah -- a seven-foot tall transvestite hooker.Well, he's not an actual transvestite hooker (as far as we know) but he played one on T.V.& ... More >>

October 19 In Blogs: Arpaio, Dave Longstreth, Mamma Mia, and Don Stapley

​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio's Racist Rampage, and ICE Honcho John Morton's Hypocrisy Up on the Sun: Internati ... More >>

Hot Links: Grants, Temples, and Ear-Biting Cabbies

​The federal government has awarded a $54 million grant to Arizona for the expansion and creation of charter schools. The state plans to open up to 92 new campuses...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints plans to build two temples in the Valley, one in Phoenix and one in Gilbert. The tem ... More >>

THIS JUST IN: Mormon Murder Trial Ends With Manslaughter Conviction Against Doug Grant

Sports nutritionist Doug Grant was convicted of manslaughter in the bathtub-drowning death of his wife, Faylene, by a Maricopa County Superior Court jury a few minutes ago. The so-called Mormon murder case (Doug and Faylene Grant, pictured, were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ... More >>

Angela Ellsworth: Underpinnings in Multimedia

For the opening of her show "Underpinnings" at the Lisa Sette Gallery, Angela Ellsworth had performance actors dressed as members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints and acting out performance works from the 1960s, 70s and 80s by famous women performance artists.  Writer Kathleen Va ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 18, 2008

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 22, 2008

Where would the Mormons be without Mexicans?

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hi, My Name Is Ryan

The clown prince of Phoenix's downtown art scene is sacrificing madcap antics for a Mormon mission

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 8, 2006

It Practices What They Preach

Cast into the spotlight by fugitive polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, the mainstream Mormon Church's trying to distance itself from its infamous cousin

Power Failure

Say it isn't so

Big Eeeewww!

HBO's created a hot-soccer-mom fantasy in which Jeanne Tripplehorn plays the elder wife in a polygamous marriage

Forbidden Fruit

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

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 24, 2005

Saint Misbehavin'

Life on Planet Mormon

Letters

Letters from the week of April 7, 2005

Derail Polygamy's Money Train

A bill before the Legislature would allow the state to begin reforming a society that steals public money and abuses underage girls

Commentary

Religious Wrong

A state lawmaker's assault on the campus press is trickle-down from Dubya's White House

Too Little, Too Late

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

Letters

Letters from the week of August 7, 2003

Devils and Mormonism

Letters from the week of March 27, 2003

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

Polygamy's Odyssey

A brief history of the Mormon tenet

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.

The Shape of Things to Con

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