Fred DuVal’s campaign for Arizona governor has been airing campaign ads featuring Republican Grant Woods, a longtime friend and college classmate of DuVal’s. DuVal, the Democratic nominee, is running against Republican Doug Ducey in the November general election. Sure, Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, may have chaired Governor Jan…
A storm that crossed through Arizona yesterday produced the rainiest day ever recorded in Phoenix history, plus caused plenty of damage along the way. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton declared a state of emergency to deal with “extensive damage” flooding did around the city, especially to homes. Stanton said he and…
Monday’s record rainfall in the Phoenix area spurred officials to warn parents against letting their kids play in standing water. But with many schools closed across the Valley ’cause of the historic deluge, what else is there to do? At Harmony Park in Mesa near Val Vista Drive and the…
Welcome to Phoenix, where a few inches of rain have pretty much turned the city into Atlantis. Rainfall records are on pace to be broken, schools have canceled classes, power outages are being reported, and cars are floating in the middle of the interstate…
In case you missed any news action this week, we’ve got you covered. Here’s our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:…
So how does a crazy lady like Sylvia Allen become a member of the Arizona Legislature? Some dude has to fall off a horse. Literally. Back in 2008, it was state Senator Jake Flake, uncle of now-U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and former Speaker of the state House, who got bucked…
The attack ad that hits Democratic gubernatorial candidate Fred DuVal for voting for tuition increases as a member of the Arizona Board of Regents isn’t going away. In fact, it’s now in Spanish, too…
When students are accepted to both Arizona State University and the University of Arizona, a majority choose to attend ASU, according to one set of statistics. It’s not a sure thing, but Parchment, a company that helps students transfer their official high school transcripts to colleges, looked at its users’…
Last week, we told you about a story from the nonprofit investigative journalism outlets ProPublica and the Center for Investigative Reporting that explored how a Chinese national gained access to all kinds of sensitive records, such as the Arizona driver’s license database, before he disappeared. The meat of the story:…
David Leibowitz, a political consultant who’s helping Felicia Rotellini, the Democratic candidate for Arizona Attorney General, posted a tweet implying that her opponent Mark Brnovich is being followed by thousands of “fake twitter accounts.” Funny because a quick (an inexact) check of Leibowitz’s more than 26,000 followers on twitteraudit.com estimates…
At the end of the week, we bring you a roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail. To be considered for our Maricopa County mugshots of the week, get arrested, strike a pose, and we’ll take care of the rest. This week, our inmates are looking especially…
Four protesters were arrested today in Phoenix at a rally focused on unionizing fast food workers and raising their wages. The two women and two men were charged with disorderly conduct, obstructing a thoroughfare, and failure to obey a police officer. All of the charges are misdemeanors…
Republican congresswoman wannabe Wendy Rogers has drawn first blood in the general election contest for Congressional District 9, represented by Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. This morning, Rogers, who recently whupped ex-ASU quarterback, ex-NFL player Andrew Walter in the GOP primary by an astonishing 21 points, blasted as “sickening” and “exploitative” a…
A Tempe church is giving sanctuary to a Guatemalan immigrant who’s facing deportation as a result of a traffic stop. Reverend Eric Ledermann of the University Presbyterian Church says Luis Lopez-Acabal can stay “as long as it takes” to avoid his deportation.” Luis is our neighbor who has been here…
Florence is the safest city in the state, a recent survey says…
The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States has stayed the same since 2009, according to the Pew Research Center. Researchers estimate that there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants living in the country in March 2013. The New Democrat Network, a lefty think-tank, has attributed the net-zero flow…
Three former schools chiefs–including a Republican–have endorsed Democrat David Garcia in his bid for State Superintendent of Public Instruction…
I’m from the southeastern United States, and people think that all people from there are dumb (and, in many, cases correctly — see Bush, G.W.), Is there a similar place in Mexico where other Mexicans think these people are inbred mouthbreathers? Swanee Señor Jalisco. I am a health researcher. At…
Of the many joys of primary day 2014, the top of my list and the most satisfying was Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s delicious seven-point defeat by former state gaming director and fellow Republican Mark Brnovich. The only thing I’d enjoy more would be watching Horne, outfitted in prison stripes,…
If anyone knows why the Granite Mountain Hotshots left a safe area on top of the Weaver Mountains west of Yarnell and descended into a box canyon that became the worst death trap in the nationwide history of such crews, it’s Brendan McDonough. The only survivor of the 20-member hotshot…
It took about a week, but the match-ups for all nine of Arizona’s congressional races have been decided. The Republican primary in Congressional District 1 had been too close to call since the primary election last Tuesday, but businessman Gary Kiehne has conceded defeat to Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin…
After a 9-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed a shooting instructor with an Uzi in Mohave County last week, an Arizona lawmaker is proposing a ban on giving machine guns to children. “I cannot believe we need a law like this, but we do,” Democratic Representative Victoria Steele tells New…
