In southern Arizona’s Second Congressional District, Republican Martha McSally has claimed victory over Democratic Congressman Ron Barber, as a count of all the ballots has put McSally up 161 votes on Barber. “All ballots are now counted and the voters have made their choice,” McSally said in a statement. “We…
I’m interested in a job that says it is a plus to have an understanding of Latin, Spanish, and Mexican music. I found out some names of musical styles such as tejano, norteño, mariachi, banda, cumbia, merengue, flamenco, and so on. I’m wondering if there is a way to form…
A judge has allowed two private lawyers to quit representing child-abuse suspect Shanesha Taylor, and has assigned a public defender to her renewed felony case. One of the lawyers says Taylor stiffed him on his fees. The development is the latest in the failed deferred-prosecution deal for Taylor, who raised…
The Arizona State University Police Department is investigating a strange, vaguely threatening note left on a student’s car. The university confirmed the investigation but didn’t release details about the note. However, a photo of a note said to have been left on an ASU sorority girl’s car has been circulating…
Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson “lead the way in LGBT equality” in Arizona, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The HRC, an LGBT civil-rights organization, released its annual scorecards for American cities on LGBT equality issues, and the three aforementioned Arizona cities each received perfect scores of 100. “In Arizona, while…
Last night, the Red Mountain Tea Party hosted its second speaker in a row who heads an organization found on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of hate groups. Bradlee Dean, called an activist, author, and radio show host in fliers publicizing the event–and called “rabidly anti-gay” by the SPLC–presented…
The Arizona State Forestry Division has released 20 video clips shot by crews fighting the Yarnell Fire last year on the day 19 firefighters were killed. Footage of the discovery of the 19 Granite Mountain Hotshot crew members’ bodies was redacted, but the audio was left intact. Other video shows…
A new defense motion in the Jodi Arias penalty-phase trial claims that pornography files had been deleted from victim Travis Alexander’s computer while it was in police custody. Arias, who was convicted of first-degree murder last year, wants all charges dropped. But even if the allegations in the new motion…
Nearly a week after polls closed, Democrat David Garcia has finally conceded to Republican Diane Douglas in the race for State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Garcia spent the week holding tight for a final ballot count, but conceded late yesterday night. The Associated Press declared Douglas the winner on Sunday…
One of the biggest culture shocks experienced by people who moved to the Phoenix metro area from a cold climate can be the completely unexpected arrival of winter. With daytime temperatures reaching into the high 80s in early November — a situation that’s by no means unusual — Valley residents…
Hopes that the Arizona Cardinals would be playing Super Bowl 49 on its home turf were dampened on Monday with news that quarterback Carson Palmer would was sidelined for the rest of the season. Head Coach Bruce Arians, in a news conference today, said that Palmer’s ACL tear from Sunday’s…
Republican Martha McSally has lost her bid to stop certain provisional ballots from being counted in her race against Ron Barber for Arizona’s Congressional District Two seat. With all precincts accounted for but some ballots remaining to be counted, McSally, an Air Force veteran, is winning by fewer than 400…
PACH and videographer Dennis Gilman join forces to help save Maria’s arm. With Republicans in command of both houses of U.S. Congress determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and with the U.S. Supreme Court’s recently taking a case that could send “participating insurers into an actuarial death-spiral,” according to…
Diane Douglas, the self-taught constitutionalist, former Peoria school-board member and one-issue Republican candidate, is the official winner of the race for state schools chief. Besides the fact that her victory solidifies GOP dominance in state government, it remains unclear how much damage Douglas could do. But if the political novice…
Arizona’s 2005 law that makes smuggling undocumented immigrants a state crime has been struck down by a federal judge. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton declared that the law was “preempted by federal law and is permanently enjoined” in an order released late Friday. Bolton’s order has the effect of…
So why did Maricopa County Republicans need six reserve sheriff’s deputies/posse members, a patrol car, and two plainclothes officers in an unmarked vehicle to guard a recent Thursday night meeting of mostly alter kocker conservatives? According to the attendees I chatted with that evening, Maricopa County GOP Chair A.J. LaFaro…
A 20-year-old north Scottsdale man arrested on Thursday is suspected of two brazen, attacks on women in his neighborhood. Scottsdale police arrested Addison John Reyna in his filthy home on Thursday afternoon following an investigation into the attacks, the latest of which occurred on Monday. Court records indicate that the…
With the full count from Tuesday’s polls finally in, it looks clear: Republican Diane Douglas has more votes than Democrat David Garcia in the race for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. But Garcia’s camp isn’t ready to give up, holding onto hope that the early ballots dropped at polling places…
An insidious ad campaign in key Republican races “depressed” Arizona Democratic voters in order to keep them at home on Tuesday, says losing candidate Terry Goddard. We ran into Goddard and Sandra Kennedy at Phoenix’s Giant Coffee this morning and stole some of their time for a few election post-mortem…
Steve Nash, former Phoenix Suns player and two-time league MVP, has put his Paradise Valley mansion up for sale, asking $4.15 million. Even at full price, though, it won’t cover the $4.8 he paid in April for a much smaller home in Manhattan Beach, California — which he reportedly wants…
Sue Sisley has been fired again. An apparent victim of hardball politics, the Valley doctor and would-be cannabis researcher was told by the University of Arizona in June to vacate her office at the school’s downtown Phoenix campus. Now Sisley’s been booted off the Maricopa County Medical Society’s board of…
There’s a line from Satan in Milton’s Paradise Lost, after Lucifer falls into the pit, that summarizes the predicament of Democrats in Arizona. “Fall’n Cherub,” the Dark Prince tells a cohort, “to be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.” Hard on the heels of Tuesday’s Election Day massacre for the…
