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OVAH! EASY It’s a win-win for our city: Downtown Phoenix is losing one place [Modified Arts], a very important place, and Tempe is gaining one place [23 West], which has the potential of being a very important place. However, downtown Phoenix is gaining something, too, which, again, has the potential…

For months, as Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio stockpiled his campaign war chest with thousands of dollars from developers and their representatives, the big question at City Hall was whether he’d use his position on the Council to benefit his donors. But now City Hall is abuzz with a new…

OBAMA’S VICTIMS Next time President Barack Obama comes whistling through Ari-bama, we should greet him with a new ditty: “Hail to the Profiler in Chief.” Because for all the highfalutin speechifying, all the promise of change, Obama has waffled on one thing you’d think would be a top priority for…

Tre Fields, a co-captain of the Carl Hayden Community High School Falcons football team, slipped into that place between consciousness and dreaming. A thought rolled into Tre’s mind and stuck. “We are going to win this game.” The 17-year-old senior lineman was resting in bed at his home near 35th…

​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: Easley’s Fun Shop Sells Out of Illegal Alien Costume. Is the Costume Racist? Nah. Up…

At a meeting to discuss whether or not to fire Lake Havasu City Manager Richard Kaffenberger, a member of the City Council had an interesting excuse for how he handles city finances.He’s “just a little Jewish.”At least that’s what Councilman Lee Barnes told the city council members in a special meeting…

Peoria police are looking for a Glendale man of Iraqi extraction who they say ran his car over his own daughter because she was becoming too “westernized.”…

The first survivor to speak out about the “spiritual warrior” sweat lodge retreat that took the lives of three people and injured more than a dozen, is saying that the leader of the retreat, self-help guru James Arthur Ray, pushed people too far.Beverley Bunn, a 44-year-old Texas woman who participated…

Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake is in a new battle on Capitol Hill. He is smack dab in the middle of a rousing game of “who’d ya rather,” sponsored by the folks at TMZ.For anyone who may not be a 17-year-old girl and isn’t familiar with the rules of “who’d ya…

That’s what Taser International is telling law enforcement agencies that use its stun guns. In a training bulletin issued by the company, Taser International advises law-enforcement agencies that, in order to avoid potential criticism, they should not shoot suspects in the chest with stun guns…

Congressmen John Shadegg and Trent Franks are two of four legislators calling for an investigation into a potential threat in Washington D.C. — a possible conspiracy where Muslims plan to infiltrate the highest levels of the U.S. government with some highly influential weapons — the interns. If screwing up coffee…

A massive project is planned for 230 acres of desert near the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport. Phoenix-based Kitchell Development Company proposes to build offices, shops, and hotels on the land, ultimately stretching the Gateway 202 Airpark to 3.3 million square feet. Mesa’s Planning and Zoning Board will review the project at…

​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 Can Stop You If “You Look Like You Just Came from Mexico,” and…

Last month, we told you about a 64-year-old Campe Verde woman who went missing in March. As far as police know, the last person to see her alive is the same man who was sentenced to more than a decade in prison after he was convicted of arson charges in Maricopa…