We didn’t exactly need a think tank to tell us how bad things have gotten here in Arizona, but what the heck — if one wants to quantify our state’s woe, who are we not immerse ourselves in the sad details?This week’s bad news comes from this month’s Nelson A…
Remember when we wrote about a bill that could financially devastate homeowners facing foreclosure, and then we wrote about how it was reversed? Well, the bill might just be back. The Arizona Bankers Association — which represents more than 70 banks in the state — has filed a lawsuit in the Arizona…
Good news! Black-tailed prairie dogs are back in Arizona (you were concerned, we’re sure). However, a hunter outside of Tucson felt the need to blow one to bits with a high-powered rifle, according to the Arizona Game and Fish Department. The black-tailed prairie dog once roamed Arizona in abundance…
In September, 2007, former Phoenix police Officer Mark Wilcox and his wife sued the department and Sergeant Kathy Johnson. Among other things, the couple claimed that his own department, especially Sergeant Johnson, had violated his civil rights and defamed him in the aftermath of an October 2004 incident involving a juvenile suspect. After…
Sheriff Joe has activated his infamous posse to hunt down a serial cat killer roaming the streets of Tempe, Chandler, and Mesa.Sounds like a nice change of pace from walking around malls at Christmas-time pretending to be real cops. The upcoming depolyment reminds us of the time a few years ago when the…
Arizona Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne says the state faces teacher layoffs on a large scale next year because of the state’s budget woes. Horne said the situation is “much grimmer” than Arizona residents realize…The male graduate student who committed suicide in a professor’s office at ASU yesterday has been…
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: Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Leads NSM Rally in Riverside, California Up on the Sun: The…
You don’t have to be a lawyer to see that the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office messed up part of its response to county management over the issue of hiring special prosecutors in the case against Don Stapley. The technical flub, which we’ll detail below, seems especially embarrassing for County Attorney Andrew Thomas…
We spent an abundance of time last week around the local high school football scene. First, of course, was the publication of “Friday Night Frights” (still on the newstands for a few more days, and available here for a lot longer than that), about the trials and tribulations of Phoenix Carl Hayden’s football program…
Joe Shirley Jr., president of the Navajo Nation, was placed on administrative leave today, pending an investigation into ethical, civil, or criminal involvement with two companies with tribal contracts.During a special session of the Navajo Nations Tribal Council, members voted 48-22 to place Shirley on leave during the investigation as…
Arizona State University police are reporting that a graduate student shot and killed himself inside a professor’s office a little over an hour ago…
A White House basketball game featuring Arizona congressman and national beefcake Jeff Flake has brought some heat on the Obama Administration. A couple of weeks ago, President Obama had members of his Cabinet, as well as members of Congress, including Flake, over to the White House for a game of…
Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office filed a $75,000 claim against the county last week for the “emotional distress” of being forced to divulge the names of secret donors to a political committee. Naturally, Fox isn’t suing the Sheriff’s Office — just the Board of Supervisors, Elections…
As the Corleone saying goes: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” Didn’t President Obama tell us we were leaving Iraq? Tell that to the troops in the Army’s 653rd Support Group…
The Arizona Board of Education is set to return the Colorado City Unified School District to local control — that control being by a bunch of polygamist inbreds. The corruption and financial mismanagement of the school district was unearthed six years ago by the tenacious reporting of former New Times reporter…
So we watched Sunday night’s Cards Giants game with a New York fan and must say there was nothing in the world more gratifying than watching him eat his words as the Birds laid down some serious smack on the “G-g-g G-Men.” New York sports fans are a rare breed,…
A famous Hopi artist from Arizona has died from the H1N1 virus. Michael Kabotie, renowned painter, silversmith, and poet, died on Friday. He was 67…Fire crews were called to a home in Mesa near Guadalupe and Dobson roads early this morning, where they responded to a first-alarm house fire and…
Dressed in black battle dress, helmet, and wielding a bullhorn featuring a smiley face with a Hitler mustache, Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready helped lead a group of about 20 National Socialist Movement members in a rally held in Riverside, California on Saturday. Local press estimated that the 20 sieg heil-ing…
I’m hearing rumblings that local anarchists may show up to greet National Socialist Movement neo-Nazis on November 7, when the Hitler-wannabes show up for their shindig on the State Capitol lawn. Some anarchists have been telling me off-the-record that they plan an action of some sort to show NSM Commander…
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 & Lt. Joe Sousa: We Don’t Need No Stinking Badges! Up on the…
Department of Public Safety officers served a warrant at a home in Scottsdale today and found just about everything needed to make fake IDs, as well as two Mexican men they believe were running the operation.Considering what DPS officers found, we’re gonna go ahead and assume the two guys weren’t trying…
Governor Jan Brewer today named a replacement for former budget chief Eileen Klein, whom she bumped up the totem pole this week to serve as her new chief of staff. John Arnold, executive director of the School Facilities Board, will be the new state budget director…
