In a hearing held late Monday a.m. following up on the New Times grand jury imbroglio, Superior Court Judge Anna Baca concluded that, “Mr. [Dennis] Wilenchik as special prosecutor did not comply with the requirements of issuing subpoenas,” in the case. Baca also found that a sheaf of documents (including…
Stern’s still got his ticket, but his name wasn’t on the court’s docket… As I mentioned in my post on harassed actor Nick Tarr last week, one of the MCSO’s standard intimidation moves is to cite or arrest someone they want to “punish,” then never file the ticket or the…
So look who’s got a neo-Nazi in the woodpile: the Maricopa County Republican Party. This plumed penman first sniffed a whiff of National Socialism in local GOP ranks when The Bird was forwarded an e-mail signed by the Ernst Roehm of the East Valley, J.T. Ready, in which the turd-Reicher…
LIAR LIAR Proud of journalism: As a journalist of 27 years, I can only say: Go, boys. Kick those Maricopa County Nazis’ asses, (“Wilenchik’s a Liar, and There’s More,” Michael Lacey, November 15; see also “Who’s Sorry Now,” Stephen Lemons, October 25, and “Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution,” Lacey and…
As legend has it, the chimichanga was invented in Tucson in the 1950s, when the owner of a Mexican restaurant accidentally dropped a leftover burrito into the deep fryer. Or, it was invented in Phoenix, around the same time, when an enterprising restaurateur was experimenting with new recipe ideas. Or,…
What’s the deal with Spanish-language car dealership commercials that feature bikini-clad porn star-wanna-bes copulating with used cars? I just saw one in which three girls were rubbing melted chocolate on each other. Surely, no one in mainstream Caucasian America could get away with such overtly sexual, misogynistic advertising. Does this…
Actor Nick Tarr after his citation in 2002. PHX actor Nick Tarr won a major victory this week in his ongoing quest to make Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his dastardly, power-crazed underlings pay for their violation of the thespian’s Constitutional rights. On November 20, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
Any way you slice Nickel Bag Joe’s sopressata, his poll numbers have dropped dramatically. A new Cronkite-Eight poll of registered voters in Maricopa County showed that 61% of respondents, “had a very positive (32 percent) or generally positive (29 percent) opinion of Sheriff Arpaio.” Compare that to Arpaio’s previous numbers…
As further proof that a coterie of loudmouthed, reactionary extremists are calling the shots in our benighted Valley of the Sun, and winning in their push for the ethnic cleansing of the local Hispanic population, Channel 3 reports that, “The Phoenix Police Department’s upper brass has assembled a committee to…
Whaddya think, is this clown car a cultural stereotype? So, I’ve received a couple of calls about this Billy Moore Heritage Days parade that was held in Avondale a few weeks back on October 27. It’s sort-of a founders day thing, and it seems Sheriff Joe has an entry in…
In my Wednesday blog post (“County Attorney’s office (finally) files `Notice of Intent to Dismiss’ charges in Lacey/Larkin matter”), I mentioned a cryptic document recently filed by Chief Assistant County Attorney Sally Wolfgang Wells, entitled, “State’s Report of Document Search.” Responding to an October 24 order from Judge Anna Baca…
Female trouble: The flash-art GIF at maricopagop.org. What do Andrea Dworkin and Republicans have in common? You could say both are deader than doorknobs. Metaphysically, intellectually. Dworkin’s been physically dead for a couple of years now. She died in 2005 at the age of 58 from heart failure. The Republicans?…
Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik sought to put this newspaper out of business by going after our financial assets. According to confidential grand jury records released by the court, Wilenchik adopted a scorched-earth policy when confronted with our misdemeanor. These same documents also make it clear that Wilenchik lied when he…
Not a hair on his salt-and-pepper pompadour is out of place, but there are huge bags under Elias Bermudez’s eyes. He’s behind the microphone on a recent Wednesday morning, at KIDR 740 AM. You can catch his radio show on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 to 9. The show…
Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed down because of the illegals, or is he lying? Cabrones No Necesitamos Dobbs is right to a certain point, and only in spite of his idiocy. The father of two half-wabs spouted off…
Ever notice how little it takes to get arrested in Maricopa County, especially when the Sheriff’s Office is involved? Dan Pochoda, legal director of the Arizona ACLU, got some personal instruction in this reality on November 3 when he stopped off at M.D. Pruitt’s Home Furnishings at 34th Street and…
HEY, NEIGHBOR What’s next? Blindness disclosure?: If home values continued to escalate at levels of the past few years, would Glenn Melton be engaged in this lawsuit (“Hot Potato,” John Dickerson, November 8)? Hardly. He appears to be an egomaniac who can’t cope with the reality that he bought at…
“A day late and a dollar short,” laughed Village Voice Media Executive Editor Mike Lacey when asked to comment on the latest bit of legal paperwork to cross his desk, the “State’s Notice of Intent to Dismiss,” which was filed November 7 by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, and received…
In a strongly-worded letter dated November 6, Phoenix attorney Mike Manning demanded that all of the players in the arrests of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin not destroy any documents related to the case. Addressed to Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Pinal County Attorney James…
Let the doves fly and church bells sound, the battle over the banos at Anderson’s Fifth Estate is officially finito! Now transgendered folk — including activist Michele de LaFreniere — are free to pee standing up, sitting down, doing handstands or any dang way they please in the newly christened…
Where’s the fiesta, hombres? On the sidewalk outside of Pruitt’s, every Saturday. PHX’s M.D. Pruitt’s Home Furnishings, the site of the ongoing day-laborer squabble, smells like cow caca. For real. Owner Roger Sensing recently had fresh manure laid down on his side of the sidewalk, next to where Salvador Reza…
Carol Gotbaum with her youngest child Tobias, 3. The results are in on the autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the 45-year-old mother of three who died September 28 in police custody at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. In the opinion of Maricopa County Medical Examiner Ann L. Bucholtz, Gotbaum expired “as…
