Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords this week launched a new campaign attacking gun violence. The initiative, called the Women’s Coalition for Common Sense, will focus on the nexus of guns and domestic violence. Women in the United States are 11 times more likely to die as a result of gun…
Ever wonder why the Republican Party has trouble attracting minority voters? Could it be because of inflammatory and stupid comments about blacks and Hispanics by respected GOP leaders like former Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen. While watching Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate, Pullen tweeted that black people are…
Tim Jeffries, the crusading, new director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, is on a mission to rid the agency of employees he calls “bullies… liars and multi-year bad actors.” In the past 90 days, 72 DES employees have been fired in Jeffries’ crackdown on negativity and “unworthy” employees…
Mere hours after U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders told the American public that the greatest danger to national security is climate change, a large crowd is expected to descend on the Arizona capital building in Phoenix to demand that state leaders take aggressive action to combat the threat. The planned action…
The number of sexual assaults reported at Arizona State University nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014, according to the university’s annual security report. That may sound ominous, but, according to advocates for victims, it’s actually good news. ASU police investigated 35 cases of rape or forcible fondling in 2014, compared…
Rumain Brisbon, the 34-year-old father of three who was fatally shot in the back last December by a Phoenix police officer is buried in an unmarked grave. With less than two months until the one-year anniversary of his death, his family and friends are trying to get him the headstone…
Following allegations of illegal and predatory student recruitment on military bases, the University of Phoenix has been temporarily barred from enrolling new active-duty military personnel under the Department of Defense’s Tuition Assistance Program. The move is a significant blow to the Arizona-based, for-profit college—the largest recipient of military-education benefits. And…
Despite months of hype and planning, Jon Ritzheimer’s Global Rally for Humanity did not draw the thousands and thousands of people he expected would join him in rallying against Islam. Ritzheimer, the de facto leader of Arizona’s Islamophobia movement, garnered attention earlier this year after he organized a large anti-Islam…
It’s time to take off your “Make American Great Again” hats and put away your Ben Carson and Jeb! paraphernalia because finally, after two lively debates between the Republican presidential candidates, it’s time for the Democrats to take the stage. Tonight’s event in Las Vegas is the first of six…
Shortly after a student at Northern Arizona University shot four other students during what authorities are saying was a fight outside of a popular fraternity hot spot late last week, another round of the national gun-control debate exploded on social media. Predictably, those calling for tighter background checks and laws…
U.S., Representative Raúl Grijalva will announce a bill this afternoon designed to permanently ban uranium mining in the Grand Canyon watershed. The Tucson congressman’s measure, officially called the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act, calls for protecting the area by declaring the region a national monument. According to a…
Phoenix police released surveillance video this week they say could help catch the killer of a transgender woman murdered in August. On August 11, the last images of 35-year-old Kandis Capri were captured on a Phoenix convenience store camera as she walked outside in the parking lot. Wearing a striped…
Halloween’s a great time to relax your inhibitions and dress up as anything or anyone you want. Or not. Thanks to cell-phone cameras and social media, wearing the wrong costume now is a potentially Google-able faux pas that may haunt you for many Octobers to come. On the other hand,…
Between taunting worshipers with insults and waving signs inscribed with slogans like “Stop Islamic immigration to the U.S.A.”, the crowd that mobbed the Islamic Community of Phoenix Saturday chowed down on bacon. “We’ve been eating a lot of bacon over here so you’d better think twice before you blow anybody…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio suffered another damaging round of testimony Friday in his ongoing contempt trial, as an MCSO detective on the so-called “Seattle investigation” explained how Arpaio and Cold Case Posse honcho Mike Zullo used a confidential informant to target federal Judge G. Murray Snow. Sergeant Travis Anglin, who worked…
Critics of Hickman’s Family Farms filed an air-quality complaint this week with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in their latest attempt to shut down the company’s massive egg-producing facility in Tonopah. Since Hickman’s opened the plant a year ago at Indian School Road and 415th Avenue, critics say, the air…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that it will investigate the death of a wild horse at the Salt River Recreational area as a case of animal cruelty, recanting earlier statements that there was no evidence of foul play. By the time police responded to tips that Dotty, a…
For the second time this year, a big anti-Islam rally is scheduled to take place outside of the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix. Officially part of the “Global Rally for Humanity,” Saturday’s demonstration will be one of many purportedly taking place around the world, intended to draw attention to the…
Eviela Carrera came to the United States, like many immigrants do, to give her four children a better life. But, making just $8.30 an hour assembling chicken sandwiches and cleaning the broiler at a Phoenix Burger King, the Mexican native is struggling to hold onto this hope. She’d like to…
According to Northern Arizona University officials, one person is dead and three others are wounded following an early morning shooting on the Flagstaff campus. A statement from the University reports that the shooter is in custody and that the three victim are being treated at Flagstaff medical center. The first…
The blunt realities of the state’s medical-marijuana industry are exposed in a remarkable ruling on a lawsuit between business partners that features allegations ranging from a “lack of financial controls” to a shady seed deal in a parking lot. The lawsuit’s between the two partners of Uncle Herbs of Payson,…
Whenever federal Judge G. Murray Snow questions Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the sheriff’s ongoing contempt trial, all kinds of muscles tighten at the defense table. And for good reason, Snow knows the case better than anyone. He also remembers in detail what people say in his court, and he most…
