We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever: Obama Scholarship Program at ASU Really a Financial Aid Program;…
After a dramatic extra-inning win on Tuesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks came out swinging on Wednesday afternoon in the series finale and homestand-closing game against the St. Louis Cardinals. Unfortunately, for every bit of goodwill the D-Backs generated Wednesday, they took a step back in a 12-7 loss to the Cards…
You’ve been screwing Phoenix over for years, not paying the city its rightful tax revenues on your business profits sales. But you’ve been feeling guilty lately (and wondering if you’re going to get caught). Well, Phoenix’s budget woes are your dream come true. With at least $5 million — and…
Thirteen staffers at PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) were given pink slips yesterday in a cost-cutting move expected to affect local programming. According to this morning’s broadcast on National Public Radio’s local affiliate, KJZZ (91.5 FM), the employees include a local production manager and several workers for the public affairs show…
It’s good to have friends like the City of Peoria. The city developed a relationship with Long Beach, Mississippi, after the Gulf Coast town was ravaged in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina, (the same storm that wiped out New Orleans). Peoria donated office equipment and vehicles to help the municipal government…
The “scholarship program” at Arizona State University to be named after President Barack Obama really isn’t a “scholarship” at all. The nod to criticism of the school’s denial of an honorary degree for Obama turns out to be a financial aid program called “ASU Advantage” that pools local and federal grants,…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is taking credit for a decrease in auto thefts in Phoenix and Tucson, saying a smorgasbord of enforcement efforts made the difference. Referring to a report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau that show no Arizona city in the Top 10 auto theft hot spots…
The driver who says front-seat passenger Donald Delahanty fired four bullets in Phoenix police officer David Uribe’s face back in May 2005 took the witness stand Tuesday at Delahanty’s first-degree murder trial. The underlying question to Chris Wilson’s terse, stark, and generally believable testimony was: Why? Why in the world…
It was a case of unimaginable brutality: A 12-year-old girl is scalded and beaten to death — by her own mother.As if that isn’t bad enough, the girl’s father came home to find his daughter dying on a bedroom floor, then had dinner, went to bed and left for work…
We’ve gotten our fair share of hate mail over the years, especially after our Super Bowl cover story about weak-kneed Cardinals fans and their coal-mining hillbilly counterparts (Steeler Nation) from Western Pennsylvania, but we’ve never received anything as hilarious/disturbing as this video. Yes, those are the words from one of our…
It’d been almost nine long months since Conor Jackson hit a home run for the Arizona Diamondbacks, with the left fielder’s last moon shot coming way back in July against the San Francisco Giants. Co-Jack’s homer dry spell ended in dramatic fashion Tuesday night when he drilled a pinch-hit, three-run…
A mere week into the new season, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ top pitcher is on the disabled list with a sore wing and the D-Backs couldn’t hit a slow-pitch grapefruit with a two-by-four. You think they’ve got problems? This year’s star-crossed campaign for Your Phoenix Suns mercifully comes to an end…
Phoenix may get its first solar power plant, if the city can procure about $1 billion in private investments. The proposed site for the plant is 1200 acres at the Valley’s only active landfill, between Buckeye and Gila Bend…A Phoenix couple came home to find a body in their kitchen,…
It’s been belly-ticklin’ reading all the moonbat paranoia over this recent report on wing-nutbars issued by Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security. Every far right, moonhowlin’ Web site out there jumped on this so-not-news, from the wackos at WorldNetDaily and the wannabe-Brahmins of Breitbart.com, to the Moonie-owned Washington Times and…
We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever:Violent Fugitive on the Loose in West Valley, Says DPS Angry…
The hits to local daily newspapers just keep on coming. The East Valley Tribune will drop its Saturday edition starting May 15, taking the paper down from four days a week to just three. On top of that, it’s laying off 13 more employees. As you may recall, last…
Arizona State University “blew it” by not awarding President Obama an honorary degree, a university marketing official writes in a leaked e-mail. The political blogger for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson reports today that he received an e-mail, originally sent to someone out-of-state, from Terri Shafer, ASU’s vice-president of marketing and strategic…
Governor Jan Brewer announced in a news release yesterday that she had appointed a new State Forester, but that was actually month-old news. As Valley Fever reported, State Forester Vicki Christiansen had already been on the job for a few weeks, even testifying before Congress in her new capacity. We…
Animal rights activists plan to march at a Chandler medical-testing lab plan on Sunday behind a procession of beagles. A group organized by Citizens Against Covance will walk about a half-mile on Gilbert Road just north of Germann Road to a spot near the Covance facility. As a statement against the company,…
A new report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warns of a “resurgence” in violent right-wing extremism, driven by economic and political factors such the election of President Obama. The hardscrabble economy, the return from war zones of “disgruntled” veterans, illegal immigration and the possibility of gun control all…
Plenty of drivers chafe at criticism from their backseat counterparts — but Phoenix bus driver Michael Berry took his annoyance to a whole new level. Berry, a driver with Valley Metro, responded to complaints from a 28-year-old passenger last April by allegedly attacking him with his fists. Witnesses told police that Berry slammed the…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas today suggested three lawyers as possible mediators in his legal dispute with the county Board of Supervisors:Timothy Casey, of Schmitt Schneck Smyth & HerrodLee Miller, of Miller La Sota & PetersChristopher Skelly, of Scott & Skelly…
