Ask a Mexican on Real Estate and Van Damme

My wife and I are looking to buy our first house. Being young (ish) and hip (ish), we’re looking into buying in Santa Ana. It’s amazing how much house and land you can get for $350K compared to the two-bedroom stacked cracker boxes in South OC. My question is two-fold:…

Halloween Guide 2013

Love Halloween? Then you’ll love this: Organizers of many Halloween celebrations around the Valley are getting an early start to the scary season by holding their events even earlier and normal this year. And thanks to the fact that All Hallows Eve falls on Thursday, October 31, many bars, clubs,…

Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant Is Kind of Leaking

If you made a list of places you’d like to not have a leak, the largest nuclear power plant in the United States is probably at the top of the list.Well, that plant, the Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station west of Phoenix, kind of has a leak…

Does Joe Arpaio Really Need Constant Heavy Security?

Sheriff Joe Arpaio is defending the taxpayer cost of his pricey security detail.Actually, Arpaio released a memo written by members of the security detail, who defended their overtime payments, which have reached as much as $24,000 for one person in a year…

Joe Arpaio Releases Memo Defending His Pricey Security Detail

Sheriff Joe Arpaio released an internal MCSO memo in an attempt to defend his pricey security detail.According to the guys “protecting” Arpaio from a series of not-so-credible death threats, everything they do is completely necessary for the sheriff’s safety. Then again, most people would say whatever the hell they have…

Phoenix ICE Building Turns Into Party Zone for Protesters

They came, they saw, they protested, they partied. I’m talking about the local pro-immigrant activists who have been promising for at least a few weeks now to “shut down” the Phoenix Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday, October 14. Though Monday was Columbus Day, a federal…

Tempe Woman Accused of Assaulting Police Officer With an iPad

In addition to the abilities to surf the Internet, take pictures, and play music, Apple’s iPad can also be used to assault police officers.Police allege a 21-year-old Tempe woman used the police-assaulting feature of her iPad, and was booked into jail on a felony charge because of it…

Joe Arpaio Hosts Concert at Tent City

Surprise, surprise: Sheriff Joe Arpaio hosted a publicity stunt at his “concentration camp,” Tent City.Arpaio held a concert at the jail, and it wasn’t exactly Johnny Cash at Folsom State Prison…

Muslim Museum: Hoax News Story Has Been Good for Us

It turns out hoax news reports can do more than make people look really stupid.A Phoenix media hoaxer “reported” a couple of weeks ago that President Obama was funding a Muslim museum out of his own pocket during the government shutdown, which a Fox News host repeated as fact on-air…

Grand Canyon Open (For Now)

The Grand Canyon was reopened this weekend, after it was closed for nearly two weeks due to the federal government shutdown.The state and the National Park Service came to an agreement for the state to fund operations of the park — for seven days…