Where’s the best place to go when you need to find more than $2 billion to pay for Arizona’s budget this year? If you ask some Arizona Legislators, the answer’s Atlanta, Georgia, duh. Fourteen lawmaker members of Arizona’s GOP shuffled down to dixie this week to attend the American Legislative Exchange…
An ex-con from Glendale took a bus to Chesapeake, Virginia this week to meet (and hopefully have sex with) a 13-year-old girl he met online, police say. The two had been communicating via the Internet since May, but the girl was really a Virginia state cop, according to media reports. After arriving…
If you’ve read about the latest kerfuffle involving soon-to-be former Mesa Police Chief George Gascon and Sheriff Joe Arpaio — a kerfuffle egged on by the Arizona Republic — then you know it involves a statement made by Arpaio in earshot of William Finnegan, the journo who just profiled Arpaio for The…
The Sandra Day O’Connor United States Courthouse in Phoenix is an architectural marvel, in that every summer, anyone who enters the building marvels at just how hot it’s capable of getting — even with the air-conditioning at full blast. Now people are marveling at another aspect of the building: What clown…
Lead-contaminated glass at the Yuma location of Dlubak Glass recycling company is being shipped to South Korea, not the Philippines, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality now reports. Mark Shaffer, spokesman for the agency, tells us state officials named the wrong destination for the toxic garbage when we spoke with him…
The woman on the voice mail message didn’t want to give her name. She just wanted to let the public know something about the June 14 fire at Young Champions of America in Phoenix: Her young children have been “exposed” to something awful. “Nothing’ll shock us anymore,” she says. “Tell…
There are few things in life more wilting than a blast of 115-degree air, like the one we get when we open the car window in mid-July. Now, thanks to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Phoenicians will get to experience that little joy far more frequently. Monday, as part of…
Pete Rose is a numskull, but if he’s your definition of evil, you need to invest in a new dictionary. Yeah, Rose bet on games, including his own team, the Cincinnati Reds, while he was still playing/managing. And, yeah, that’s bad, but compared to the slimy, steroid-rippled creatures who’ve been…
The Arizona Department of Economic Security is warning clients in DES’ Early Intervention Program of possible identity theft. After two backup hard drives were stolen from a Phoenix storage facility last October, the department sent out 65,000 letters to warn people of identity theft. Ten thousand of them were returned…
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 Scores: Judge Mary Murguia Recuses Self From Racial Profiling Lawsuit Against Joe Arpaio…
Apparently, not even a federal judge and her family are free from the intimidation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his law dogs. I’ve now learned that Judge Mary Murguia’s July 15 order recusing herself in the big Melendres v. Arpaio racial-profiling lawsuit came days after Arpaio’s lawyers in the case subpoenaed Murguia’s sister Janet for…
Maricopa County officials responded to criticism by Sheriff Joe Arpaio today about budget cuts, saying the sheriff’s office is not the only county agency that’s hurting. In a prepared statement, county leaders outline how Arpaio signed off on the budget he’s now complaining about. And in direct response to Arpaio’s…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office arrested suspects in less than five percent of its cases in 2007, the Goldwater Institute says — a shockingly low statistic that contradicts what the Sheriff’s Office has long officially maintained.The statistics, which the Goldwater Institute obtained through a public records request, show that the…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced today he’ll take $2,613 out of his $97,000 yearly salary and donate it to “charities” while his employees are forced to take unpaid, two-week furloughs. In typical self-aggrandizing fashion for the sheriff, the beneficiaries of Arpaio’s largess will be charities his agency set up. He’s…
www.mrrl.org Has Obama taken the role of Don Corleone? In Corleone fashion, top Obama officials made Arizona Governor Jan Brewer an offer she shouldn’t refuse. They want her to back the President’s stimulus plan, and if she doesn’t and agrees with Senator Jon Kyl, she should say ciao to the federal funds…
The rip of metal skin, the smell of electric motors overheating, the excited faces of young nerds in button-down, short-sleeve shirts… If you love a good robot fight like we do, tread on down to Metrocenter this Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. It may not be as exciting as…
Sonoran Alliance, one of our favorite places to check for news by and for conservatives, doesn’t have a word to say about Steve Ellman, Dave Hendershott and the SCA. Not surprising, of course. Many of the anonymous SA writers appear to be strongly allied with — or even employees of…
Two years ago, Sun Lakes resident Francis Ray Collins reported that his wife, Linda Steer, fell off a cliff to her death on a trip to Apache Lake.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office yesterday announced the arrest of Collins, 50, and that it’s seeking a second-degree murder charge on Steer in…
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…
The cash-strapped Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority has made a deal with the Arizona Cardinals to have the NFL team operate concessions at University of Phoenix stadium, beginning in 2010. The Cardinals will market the stadium for sponsorships and non-football events, but officials for the stadium’s other tenant, the Fiesta…
In a surprise turn of events yesterday in the ongoing racial profiling lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio (Melendres v. Arpaio), U.S. District Judge Mary Murguia recused herself from the case in response to a motion filed in February by the sheriff’s legal team. The motion claimed that because Murguia’s twin sister…
How can I get Mexicans to arrive to a meeting on time? Punctual Pete Tell them you’re offering green cards on a first-come, first-served basis. And then diles a gabachos to eliminate the concept of arriving “fashionably late” the way they did the Polish joke. I was reading through the…
