It appears the claw’s on the other foot for area lobsters as the newest rage in crustacean entertainment is hitting area bars harder than the whipping tail of a lobster heading for the boiler. The Love Maine Lobster Claw, a product of a Maine based company with distributors in Phoenix called “Love Maine Lobster,” is popping…
How about just saying “oops?” The Social Security Administration today defended its decision to hold a “training conference” at the lavish Arizona Biltmore last week that cost taxpayers roughly $750,000. Mark Lassiter, spokesman for the SSA, tells Federal Times.com that the three-day retreat was just your average training…
In right turn for Arizona on the issue of abortion rights, Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation Monday that places new regulations on abortion, including restrictions that her predecessor, former-Governor Janet Napolitano, vetoed each time they landed on her desk. Among other stipulations, the new law says that mothers must wait 24 hours between their initial visit…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has enacted a temporary solution to the economic crisis in the state: Try and make everyone forget it exists via — beer. On Monday, Brewer signed a bill that allows Arizona microbreweries to brew twice as much beer as they are currently permitted. At the…
So you’re sitting at a bar in Scottsdale when two testosterone-driven, Jagermeister-and-vodka filled 20-somethings start arguing over a girl, or bump into each other (the odds are good in a crowded bar) and you think, “What’s missing?” The answer, if you ask Governor Jan Brewer, is handguns. On Monday, the governor…
Its practice is even dumber than its name. “Horse tripping,” a “sport” where “cowboys” track and literally trip a running horse, is expected to be outlawed by Governor Jan Brewer today. “Few horses survive, and it usually results in broken legs, internal damage, and death,” Phoenix Councilwoman Thelda Williams tells the Arizona…
With a few strokes of a pen, it became official: On a 115-degree day, partygoers in Arizona parks can exchange a refreshing cold beer for a steaming plastic cup of merlot. Governor Jan Brewer Friday signed House Bill 2441, which clarifies crucial language in a statute that affects office party-planning committees across the…
Everyone can rest easier now, right? The U.S. Marshals Service, in collaboration with various law-enforcement agencies, including the Maricopa County Sherriff’s Department, took more than 600 criminals off the streets in Arizona during June. Or did they? In reality, Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally (FALCON), a month-long effort by…
On Monday, the Social Security Administration began a three-day retreat for more than 700 employees, from as far away as Guam, at Phoenix’s posh Biltmore Hotel. The glorified vacation, which SSA officials describe as a “training workshop,” cost taxpayers roughly $750,000…
Tempe police arrested a man who allegedly shot one man, assaulted another, and attempted to rob them both. About 9 p.m. Wednesday night, 23-year-old Ruben Vierra went to the door of the victims’ Mission Springs Apartment at 1311 W. Baseline Road in Tempe and knocked on the door, cops say…
State Senate President Bob Burns ousted two of his Republican colleagues from their leadership postions Wednesday, after the pair attempted to sabotage a bipartisan budget agreement the Legislature reached Monday. Senators Thayer Verschoor and Pamela Gorman got the boot from Burns after they voted against him in the rules committee,…
A nightmare nurse who allegedly stabbed and beat an elderly couple he was hired to care for will be charged with attempted second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and armed robbery, the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office says. In late June, Benny Peralta allegedly attacked the elderly couple in the midst of their…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed four bills today to restore much of the roughly $600 million cut from education programs in the Legislature’s initial budget proposal, which she vetoed. Monday, after an exhaustive special session, the Legislature passed a new budget to appease the irritated executive, and re-include her pricey passion projects…
The class of 2009 had Obama, but Arizona State University’s class of 2010 is recruiting the leader of a different sort of nation to deliver their commencement address: The Colbert Nation. More than 3,000 ASU students have joined a group on Facebook with the goal of landing Stephen Colbert and…
How many Arizona legislators does it take to change a budget? All of them; as long as they’re locked in a room together, not getting paid, and not allowed to go home until they do it. The Arizona State Legislature unanimously passed a budget package Monday that would restore funding…
If they weren’t born here, 96.5 percent of Arizona high school students would not qualify to be United States citizens, according to a study released last week by the Goldwater Institute. The “Freedom From Responsibility” survey shows that only 3.5 percent of Arizona high school students would pass a basic…
