Governor Jan Brewer wrote the Environmental Protection Agency Monday, warning that new regulations being imposed on the state could close the Navajo Generating Station that provides electricity to Central Arizona Project canals…
The “spiritual warrior,” who organized a $10,000 per person sweat lodge retreat that left two people dead and 19 injured, addressed the media for the first time since the tragedy occurred five days ago. James Arthur Ray answered questions yesterday at one of his self-help seminars and expressed his regret over what happened at the spiritual…
The Mesa Historical Museum will close early next year because of lack of revenue and city funding. The museum’s exhibits will be moved to other places, including the Arizona Museum for Youth, where the exhibit “Play Ball: The Cactus League Experience” will be housed…An illegal immigrant who was involved in…
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: Salvador Reza Calls for Anti-Joe Arpaio March This Friday, October 16 The Anti-Lou Dobbs Effort,…
This looked like a more serious story at first, with an initial e-mail coming from Phoenix police about 20 dead dogs in a canal near 29th Avenue and Dunlap. But, whew! Turns out it’s just cats. The bodies of the animals had been in the water so long that their species was no…
If you live in Phoenix, you’ve probably been asking yourself one thing: What do Phoenicians have in common with O.J. Simpson?The answer: We like our Fords white…
The Environmental Protection Agency fined Firebird International Raceway, and if you ask Firebird International President Charlie Allen, it’s a blessing in disguise.The EPA claims that in 2005, Firebird failed to properly report and label hazardous waste like aerosol cans and used oil contaminated with racing fuels, brake and carburetor cleaners, and…
Cool video in favor of the “Basta Dobbs” campaign, even though I can’t support it As much as I’d personally like to see CNN’s Lou Dobbs put out to pasture, I can’t totally get behind this new effort by Latino groups asking CNN to boot him. True, he is an embarrassment…
A new study conducted by a researcher at Arizona State University, in collaboration with two researchers at European universities, came to this conclusion about the female psyche: Fat women should never look at a female model advertising anything. Ever…
Democrats in the Arizona lLegislature will be short one key staffer as they head into election season and a potential special session.Mallory Hutchison, the democratic legislative caucus director, will be leaving the party effective tomorrow.Democratic Party spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson wouldn’t comment on the reason behind the resignation because it is…
Governor Jan Brewer announced that she’s releasing money from the state’s Fiscal Stabilization Government Services Fund to finish repairs on the saddle-shaped roof of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.Brewer says in a press release that she’s pledged $1.7 million of the state’s money to make sure the roof is fixed before…
A man who was recently released from prison led police and border agents on a high-speed chase that went right through a Southern Arizona high school last week. Patagonia Police say Border Patrol agents alerted them that 37-year-old Donald Jones, who they had been chasing down State Route 82, was on his…
The public blame game surrounding the death of two people at the “spiritual warrior” retreat near Sedona is officially under way. Howard Bragman, a spokesman for James Arthur Ray, the self-help author who organized the retreat, says Ray and his staff were not responsible for building the structure at the Angel Valley site…
In case you haven’t noticed, Maricopa County will be coming to a boil this Friday. Not only is it the day of Arpaio’s announced anti-immigrant sweep — his first without 287(g) field authority, but the Rev. Al Sharpton will be back in town for a civil rights forum in downtown Phoenix. And the world…
State employees in Arizona will retain domestic-partner benefits for the next 12 months, even though the Legislature’s decided to eliminate those benefits in their last budget. The Department of Administration says cutting the benefits before October 2010 could put the state in violation of contract laws…Next week, the Metro light-rail board…
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: New York Times Blasts Joe Arpaio, Urges Obama Administration to End 287(g) Joe Arpaio Cites…
Police are looking for a man they say beat and robbed a 90-year-old Phoenix woman yesterday…
The Peoria Police Department released audio files today of a conversation between officers and the Wal-Mart employee who discovered the naked baby photos that made national headlines last month…
The “Spiritual Warrior” who hosted last week’s tragic $10,000 sweat lodge getaway, apparently didn’t want people to see some of the “tweets” he posted on his Twitter page during the two-hour sweat fest. …
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is crediting a recent reduction in the county’s crime to a crackdown on illegal immigrants.Of course! Because U.S. citizens never break the law.According to Thomas, the percentage of illegal immigrants sentenced for felonies dropped by 18.5 percent this year — not because they stopped breaking the…
How much would you pay to not eat for 36 hours and then sit in a hot steamy make-shift tent with about 60 people in search of spiritual awakening?To be honest, that sounds worse than a prison sentence, but the participants in last week’s tragic sweat-lodge incident at Angel Valley…
Forget President Obama — one of Arizona’s own won a 2009 Nobel Prize (and there’s no doubt that she earned it). Elinor Ostrom, a faculty member at both Arizona State University and Indiana University, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shares jointly with Oliver E. Williams at the University…
