Feb. 5 In Blogs: Napolitano, Kid Rock, Valentine’s Day and More

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: Tense Testimony Tendered In Mormon Murder Trial Janet Napolitano “Finessing…

Flood of Applications for Phoenix City Council Vacancy

  We warned you that the Phoenix City Council’s selection of a replacement for departing Councilman Greg Stanton (pictured) was no done deal — but even we didn’t realize just how popular this position would be. Minutes before the official day’s-end deadline, workers at the city clerk’s office told us they’d received applications…

Andrew Thomas Calls Joe Arpaio’s Hispanic Tent City “Unconstitutional”

KTAR’s reporting that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas called Arpaio’s jail segregation of undocumented Hispanics “unconstitutional” in a press conference today. Apparently, Thomas cleared the statement with the “male” in the Arpaio-Thomas relationship, and there are no hard feelings between the two.”I have taken the consistent position that racial and…

Janet Napolitano “Finessing Immigrant Crackdown,” Says Left-Wing Think-Tank

Janet Napolitano, our former governor and current Homeland Security secretary, is taking heat from a think-tank that accuses her of making the federal government’s crackdown of illegal immigrants even more efficient.In an article that clearly takes issue with Napolitano’s directives in her first weeks as boss of Homeland Security, Americas…

South Mountain High School Site of “Small-Scale Riot,” Says Police

A fight turned into a “small-scale riot” involving 200 to 300 people just outside South Mountain High School on Wednesday, police say.Though a spokesman quoted in the Arizona Republic today says only about 40 or 50 people were involved and that it “probably looked even worse than it was,” a…

Tense Testimony Tendered In Mormon Murder Trial

Prosecutor Juan Martinez tried to paint murder defendant Doug Grant’s current wife Hilary as a co-conspiring, manipulative, slutty, cold-blooded, gold-digging, backstabbing floozy during hours of tense testimony Wednesday.   Doug Grant, a onetime nutritionist for the Phoenix Suns and Arizona Diamondbacks, is accused of killing another of his wives, Faylene (that’s the…

Phoenix Suns Play Lousy Defense as Still Another Bad Team Stomps Them

It’s past time for the Suns to panic. But they can’t muster up enough energy to even care whether another sub-.500 team blows them out. Pride?  Apparently they have none. Is it that they hate Coach Terry Porter, he of the long practices, clich’ed press conferences, and tough-guy persona? Because they can’t really be this…

Hot Links: Kyl and McCain Want Smaller Stimulus Package; Public Transit Fare Hike “Inevitable”; NFL Says Ref Made Right Call in Warner Fumble

Size matters: Arizona’s Republican senators are both pushing for an alternative to Obama’s stimulus package. Napolitano called him “Chicken Little” when he made the prediction that the state was going to run out of money, but now State Treasurer Dean Martin is sounding an optimistic note, declaring Arizona’s economy will…

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 5, 2009

PILOT ERROR I don’t want to ever be on his flights: After reading this article, it makes a person wonder what’s necessary to stop a pilot from making a serious mistake. I don’t agree with lying as a form of justification, but I do think that these attendants did the…

“Baby Man” William Windsor Found Dead in Home

DEAD DIAPER BLUES This funky finch could hardly believe his feathered ears. On the other end of the horn was New Times reader Rose Hartman, a neighbor of none other than William Windsor, Phoenix’s own beloved “Baby Man,” whom New Times profiled in a 2005 cover story of the same…