By Ray Stern The conservative/Republican blog site Sonoran Alliance is reporting that its sources say State Representative Kirk Adams has been elected House Speaker. The short article also says John McComish has been elected Majority Leader and Andy Tobin elected Majority Whip…
A Yuma deputy prosecutor and Lil Wayne’s co-counsel confirmed for New Times today that the rap star was present for a court hearing in his drug possession case, despite Internet rumors that he had died.
By Ray Stern The Phoenix office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was expecting a record year of deportations in 2008, but the final numbers exceeded predictions. A news release just put out by ICE states the agency removed 72,955 illegal immigrants in its fiscal 2008, which ended in…
By Ray Stern It’s a work day for Barack Obama. The president-elect gets busy building his transition team today. And he faces his first international problem: Russia announces it’s putting a new missile system near Poland. The economy will also be on Obama’s mind, with news that worker productivity fell…
It would be an easy matter for her, presumably, to cancel the 287(g) agreement between ICE and the sheriff’s office that gives trained deputies the power of immigration agents.
Arizona Democratic Party spokeswoman Emily DeRose confirmed on Wednesday that the party wants Huppenthal charged with theft following the Republican’s Election Day tussle with a Democratic campaign worker.
By Ray Stern Few popular authors have achieved the greatness of Michael Crichton, who always made you feel like you were learning something in the middle of the awesome adventure unfolding in his novels. He was kind of like Stephen Hawking and Stephen King rolled into one. Crichton, 66, died…
Jose Luis Torres-Pais-Paez and Marcelino Ramirez-Velasquez By Ray Stern The Guatemalan woman had worked in the United States illegally in the past. Her four-year-old son was born here, but she took him to her home country before moving to Miami a few months ago. When she decided to bring the…
By Ray Stern African-Americans partying at a downtown Phoenix bar were positively gleeful after Tuesday’s history-making election of the country’s first black president. Local black leaders and their supporters had gathered at Stoudemire’s at Second and Washington streets to watch election results. By 10:30 p.m., the full impact of the…
By Ray Stern The wedding’s off. Arizona voters have approved Proposition 102, which bans same-sex marriages and amends the state constitution to make it more difficult for supporters of gay marriages to change the law in the future. Nearly 92 percent of statewide precincts have reported results, and the proposition…
By Ray Stern Two Democrats will add to the mix on the five-member Arizona Corporation Commission, which previously had been an all-Republican affair. Tuesday’s election filled three empty seats on the commission. Sandra Kennedy, a small business owner and former state lawmaker, and Paul Newman (pictured at left), a lawyer…
By Ray Stern Change came to Washington, D.C., tonight, but not to Maricopa County. County Supervisors Don Stapley (pictured below left), Fulton Brock, Andy Kunasek, Max Wilson, and Mary Rose Wilcox all retained their seats without breaking a sweat. With 95 percent to 99 percent of precincts reporting, none of…
By Ray Stern Democrat Tim Nelson was making a strong showing in early returns, but his Republican opponent, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, bounded to a respectable lead as polling station results came in about 8:15 p.m. Thomas had 53.01 percent of votes compared with Nelson’s 43.1 percent, with 32…
After receiving permission to remove the sign, which was critical of Huppenthal’s efforts to improve air quality at Tempe’s Corona Del Sol High School, Huppenthal proceeded to take the sign from its poles, the witness says.
Nebraska officials have not yet determined whether they need to work with Arizona child welfare officials on the case.
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Don’t be fooled — it’s possible you’ve gotten a bum steer on these initiatives by their promoters.
Look for the latest election coverage here in Valley Fever on Tuesday night. We’ll be updating blog articles throughout the night, so whether you’re stuck at home or out on the town with a beer in one hand and your Internet-ready mobile phone in the other, we hope you’ll check…
The charge by Nelson’s camp isn’t that surprising, considering that Thomas apparently spends many a sleepless night futzing around with his Wikipedia page…
By Ray Stern Blair Parker was sentenced to nearly 15 years in prison today for starving his three young children nearly to the brink of death under a low-calorie, vegan diet. While stiff in some respects, the sentence is less than half of what his wife, Kimu Parker, received last…
By Ray Stern This Tuesday’s election is a big one, and no one who participates would want their vote to end up on the cutting room floor. Yet Arizona’s 2004 voter identification law can make the process somewhat confusing for people who have recently moved. To help those folks out,…
The cheeky list offers dozens of zingers, many of them fairly humorous, about local journalists, TV anchors and radio personalities.
