Although the meaningless online petition begging the federal government to let Arizona secede didn’t even get enough signatures to warrant a response, eight other states’ petitions did.To paraphrase the White House employee who responded to the petitions, “No.”See also:-Arizona Secession Movement Can’t Even Gather Enough Support on Meaningless Online Petition-Obama…
UPDATE: Hallman’s folks respond, at the bottom of this post.Although New Times called out then-Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman for touting an apparently fake endorsement from the city’s firemen and cops, we have not called out potential gubernatorial candidate Hugh Hallman for using an apparently fake endorsement from Tempe’s firemen and…
For what it’s worth, New York Jets quarterback/God’s favorite son Tim Tebow was spotted working out at Paradise Valley Community College yesterday.To make the baseless trade speculation very easy, there’s a guy who claims he can throw footballs, near an NFL team that made it very clear this year that…
A 12-year-old girl in Mohave Valley pointed a gun at her father this weekend, as she tried to help her mother escape an allegedly abusive situation.According to information provided by the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office, 34-year-old Gregory Correa ended up punching the 12-year-old girl, but his wife was able to…
Lawyers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a response to the Justice Department’s racial-discrimination lawsuit, which mostly just denies each of the 188 allegations in the DoJ’s suit.The denial also contains some very interesting claims from Arpaio, including repeated claims that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “sweeps” or…
The court process for Jerice Hunter — the woman accused of murdering her 5-year-old daughter, Jhessye Shockley, before tossing her body in the garbage — may take a bit longer now, since Hunter is short an attorney.The public-information office at the Maricopa County Superior Court says Hunter’s case has been…
A man with five felony convictions already on his record is facing 17 new felony charges, after police found out how he stole four cars in a little more than a month.Phoenix police say 45-year-old Richard Barker would follow men into the locker room at their gyms, wait until they…
Talk about a broken record. The U.S. Marshals Service has once more done Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s job for him, this time by nabbing an escapee from Joe’s jails, who basically exchanged identities with another inmate, and walked out. See also: -Joe Arpaio Won’t Do His Job, So Marshal David Gonzales…
Kudos to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for his latest video, which captures the drama of yesterday’s demonstration at the state Capitol. There, as Governor Jan Brewer gave her state of the state speech to members of the Legislature, a coalition of activists protested Brewer’s executive order denying driver’s licenses to…
For those of you who like to talk about the weather, here’s your conversation fodder for the day — Anchorage, Alaska has been warmer than Phoenix…
Despite some Arizona Republicans’ continued opposition to the state’s voter-approved medical-marijuana program, the voters still like it, according to recently released poll results.While 59 percent of poll respondents said they support Arizona’s 2010 Medical Marijuana Act, 59 percent of people said they would vote “yes” for a ballot initiative that…
As Governor Jan Brewer addressed the Arizona Legislature in her state of the state speech Monday, protesters took over the state House lobby, demanding that Brewer rescind an executive order denying driver’s licenses to Arizona DREAMers who qualify for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Led by Citizens…
A 43-year-old man was shot and killed in Phoenix last night by an Arizona Department of Transportation employee in an apparent self-defense shooting.This apparent self-defense shooting doesn’t seem to be nearly as questionable as those featured often in national news coverage, as police say Quentine Barksdale was wearing a ski…
A Phoenix teenager is dead and his two brothers are in jail, after they allegedly went after their neighbor — who had a gun — with knives and large rocks.Phoenix police Sergeant Steve Martos says the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Theodore Curley on Saturday night was questioned and released…
Albert Arias has pleaded guilty to the murder of his 76-year-old father, more than nine months after Arias walked into the El Mirage police station, and told employees that he did just that.Arias pleaded guilty late last week to a charge of second-degree murder for stabbing Pete Arias to death…
An increased number of Arizona voters support the 2010 Medical Marijuana Act, and most would vote to end marijuana prohibition, a new poll shows. The poll of 600 Arizonan residents was conducted on January 9 and 10 by Public Policy Polling on behalf of the National Cannabis Industry Association. The…
One of the inmates who called B.S. on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he was taking steps to keep Tent City inmates warm is still calling B.S. after spending the weekend in below-freezing temperatures.Arpaio issued the press release last week, saying he “would like families and friends of inmates incarcerated…
From the “better late than never” department, the National Hockey League is a functioning thing again, and a 48-game schedule has been created for each team this season.The season was supposed to start a few months ago, but the whole lockout debacle messed that up completely, so the Phoenix Coyotes’…
Former Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman says he’s thinking about running for governor.”Over the next few months, I will be traveling the state of Arizona to speak with and listen to people from all walks of life about what’s really important to them in their state government, and how we can…
It’s amazing, the amount of influence I have over the Maricopa County Republican Committee. Hate to brag, but my endorsement this week of right-wing human PayDay bar A.J. LaFaro and the rest of his “crazytown” slate of candidates for MCRC leadership positions worked its evil magic at Saturday’s county GOP’s…
Chandler just wasn’t far enough for fugitive and armed-robbery suspect Keith Kirk. Authorities tracked the man to the east Valley and had local authorities arrest him this morning in connection with the November 28 robbery in Oxford, Massachusetts.. (Not Oxford, England, as we slipped up and said previously.) Kirk, wearing…
According to a Tent City inmate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that his office is taking steps to keep the inmates warm in the jail is a “patent lie.”If you’ve been paying attention today, you’ll notice this is the second inmate in just a couple of hours to tell New Times…
