This pregunta has been simmering, like slow-cooking bírria, in my brain for a while and the recent question about whether saying “Viva la Raza” is racist reminded me to ask you. According to José Vasconcelos, the Mexican people are La Raza Cósmica (Cosmic Race); which, to myself at least, seems…
Yadira Ramos and Mauricio Perez burst through the emergency room doors of Paradise Valley Hospital with their unconscious 13-month-old son early one evening, late in the summer of 2009. Mauricio Jr.’s small body was stiff, his teeth clenched. His head was swelling and it seemed to his parents that he…
Drayton Witt of Tucson spent 10 years behind bars after being convicted in 2002 of shaking to death his girlfriend’s 4-month old son, Steven Holt. And he likely would have served 10 more years for the murder of Steven had the Arizona Justice Project — along with retired British pediatric…
Today is your lucky day: You can live in the former home of ex-Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner.All you need to cough up is a bare minimum of $15,000 per month…
The legislature’s not in session at the moment, but that apparently doesn’t mean the nutty legislators go back to normal during this off-season.Take Republican Representative Bob Thorpe, who seems very concerned about issues involving black people in this country — and not in a good way…
Who better than a prisoner to criticize Arizona’s prison system? The most recent issue of Prison Legal News, a monthly magazine largely written for prisoners by prisoners, features a long, detailed overview of what’s wrong with the Arizona Department of Corrections, including ADC’s alarming suicide rate, its excessive use of…
Among other things in school-registration packets, a Tucson-area school district has a pledge for parents to sign, asking for them to agree to be responsible gun owners.Of course, someone’s offended. Apparently, this has to do with Obama-loving liberals trying to tell free Americans how to live their lives…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is trying to shave about a decade off the delay between verdicts and executions.It’s not exactly Horne’s idea, but he’s been trying to get the Justice Department to approve Arizona’s rules that expedite the post-conviction process in death-penalty cases…
A Phoenix couple tried to trade their food stamps to grocery shoppers in exchange for drugs, police say.Perhaps the drug use has done a number on couple’s brains, but people don’t usually carry bags of drugs while grocery shopping. Thus, they were unsuccessful in making any transactions…
Last week, the trial started for former Phoenix police officer Richard Chrisman, who’s accused of killing Daniel Rodriguez for no apparent reason. Chrisman shot the man dead in his mother’s trailer, and the ex-cop’s partner has even said there was no threat to his life, and therefore no reason to…
ESPN personality Skip Bayless has proclaimed that the Arizona Cardinals will be “the NFL’s biggest surprise.”Bayless’ job at ESPN just seems to be arguing unpopular opinions, so perhaps this isn’t surprising…
No one can call Steven Flores orthodox. Police say he robbed a Walmart (of all places) with a machete and even had the foresight to bring a change of clothes for the getaway. Around 4 p.m. Monday, Mesa police responded to a report of an armed robbery near Loop 202…
A Prescott Valley woman attempted to hand a shotgun to her husband Monday, but she accidentally shot him, according to police.The woman’s husband, 56-year-old Gary Wingate, was pronounced dead at the home…
Money magazine claims Phoenix’s Windsor Square is one of the “best big-city neighborhoods” in the United States.The mag picked one neighborhood from each of the biggest cities in the nation, so Windsor Square — which essentially runs from Central Avenue to Seventh Street, between Camelback Road and Missouri Avenue –…
If your car-buying options in Scottsdale seem to be getting a little weak, don’t worry — McLaren’s coming.Consider the McLaren P1, a 903-horsepower hybrid. Of course, you’ll need $1.15 million, which is a little on the high side…
The planned merger between American Airlines and US Airways won’t get off the ground if Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne gets his way. Horne has joined a coalition of five other states, Washington DC and the US Department of Justice in a lawsuit that labels the airlines’ plan to become…
After a Mesa woman tossed boiling water on her husband and child, the couple decided that only the husband should be hospitalized, as they feared that Child Protective Services might find out.CPS did find out, and that 4-year-old child has since been taken to the Maricopa County Burn Unit –…
If there were a field guide to spotting members of a political party, the Arizona Democrat would be listed as a “rare bird.”Still, there are some identifiable types of Democrats from here, as observed in their natural habitats. Check out our run-down of 10 types of Arizona Dems:…
Deputy Chief Brian Sands, longtime aide to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has retired after nearly 30 years on the force. The high-ranking deputy’s departure comes just ahead of a showdown between Sands’ boss and federal authorities over a racial-profiling mess that Sands helped create…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced yesterday that his armed citizen-patrols of schools will continue for a second school year.In other words, some old geezers will be armed and doing laps around schools in the MCSO’s jurisdiction…
As the saying goes, would you buy a used car from this guy? Or more to the point, a used home? The “guy” in question, as you can see in the pic above, is Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s fired, disgraced ex-top flunky David Hendershott, once the most feared man in Maricopa…
A Phoenix-area resident claims he swallowed a piece of metal that was inside a burrito he purchased at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant.According to the lawsuit filed on behalf of Tyler Maiden, that piece of metal got stuck in his esophagus, and he “suffered serious, significant, and permanent injuries which…
