Senator John McCain is not pleased about boxing judges scoring a decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight title match earlier this month.That said, now might finally be the time his legislation to regulate boxing — which he’s tried over and over again — sees some success.McCain…
Despite what you may have heard — and how Joe Arpaio-ish it sounds — Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies did not arrest a 6-year-old on Friday.MCSO spokesman Chris Hegstrom tells New Times deputies arrested 16 people during a human-smuggling operation, but the 6-year-old found in the van wasn’t one of them.”We’re…
Last month, Congressman Ben Quayle was talking about an idea for immigration policy that was being floated around, calling it “something that’s intriguing, that we should be looking at.”Quayle was on 12News explaining the idea of a “blue card,” a way for people who were brought to the United States…
Folks at Tempe City Hall weren’t the only ones to meet with representatives of the apparently fake company believed to be set up by the FBI in its bust of state Representative/former Tempe Councilman Ben Arredondo.According to lobbyist filings with the Secretary of State’s office, Mike Williams met with four…
The Arizona Diamondbacks’ three-game series with the Los Angeles Angels this past week ran the emotional gamut, including both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. The D-Back got to partake in the triumph of Trevor Cahill’s awesome pitching performance on Friday, the frustration of getting shutdown by…
On Friday, we asked readers to write the caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, with his cake from Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz.After sifting through all the responses — as usual, some of them more politically correct than others — we’ve narrowed it…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu apparently forgot that he quit his Congressional race, because he again spewed tired talking points from that campaign — this time blasting President Barack Obama for granting temporary deportation immunity and work permits to certain undocumented immigrants. Babeu seems to be upset because Obama is not strictly enforcing…
Former Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano’s giving the tell-all (maybe the tell-most) story of his life in a book released this month, and the man’s got some stories to tell.Giuliano faced some tough times in his decade-long stint as mayor — from being openly gay to the unsuccessful recall election against…
Starting today, feeding birds in Scottsdale’s public parks can land you in jail.Like, an actual misdemeanor that would lead to a really awkward conversation in a job interview.The city recently passed the ordinance, which goes into effect today, makes it a class-two misdemeanor if you get caught being a total…
In April, the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a portion of Arizona’s voter-approved voter-ID law, intended to keep non-citizens from voting. Because of that ruling, Arizona was supposed to stop enforcing the law. But a new order by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy permits the law…
Republicans are stumbling all over themselves to denounce President Barack Obama’s executive action today to block the deportation of students who would benefit from the proposed DREAM Act. And in doing so, they’re bumbling right into the trap the White House has laid for them. Obama’s move, initially announced with…
Maricopa County prosecutors have re-indicted Jeffrey Martinson, whose conviction in the 2004 murder of his young son was overturned a few months ago. For strategic reasons, the June 5 grand jury indictment added a new count of child abuse and, this time, prosecutors will be able to argue both premeditated…
Governor Jan Brewer called for a press conference this morning shortly after news broke of the Obama administration’s plan to stop deporting young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country when they were kids.Brewer apparently forgot that she’d actually have to articulate a response to the policy change, because…
President Obama announced today that his administration “will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children and have since led law-abiding lives.” From the Associated Press: The policy change, announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, will affect…
Michael Marin, the onetime Wall Street trader, Yale-educated lawyer, and world adventurer, declined yesterday to take the witness stand in his own defense as his arson trial winds down. Marin is on trial in Maricopa County Superior Court for allegedly burning down his Biltmore Estates mansion in July 2009. Prosecutors…
Archaeologists have discovered Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s birthday was yesterday, and in typical Arpaio fashion, he shouted it from the rooftops.For Arpaio’s birthday, Citizens for a Better Arizona’s Randy Parraz brought the sheriff a cake. The purpose, according to one of Parraz’s e-mail blasts, was to put 80 candles on…
Yesterday, we informed you that it took eight law enforcement agencies to track down a guy who stole a first-edition book of Mormon.Jay Linford’s been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print Books and Art store,…
At least Republican Jesse Kelly’s being honest about why he’s not going to try for a third shot at running for Congress — he wasn’t very close this time.Democrat Ron Barber beat Kelly by about 6.5 percentage points this week, in the special election to finish out the term of…
There were no blind people around to ruin Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s birthday this year, so he sent the boys in beige to round up some brown folks, then went to race go-karts.Illegal-immigrant roundup/”employer sanctions operation” number 61 took place this mornings at a car parts store in Phoenix…
FINAL THOUGHTS 10:14 P.M.: I drove by Oaxaca on my way home from the office this evening. Apparently, they’ve been getting nasty calls from the nativists telling the staff that the business will be “boycotted” because its management chose not to host Arizona’s biggest hatemonger and a passel of his…
People caught near the U.S.-Mexico border with backpacks bulging with marijuana are eligible for reduced sentences under a new policy by the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s Office. “Backpackers” with no prior history of drug offenses and no extenuating circumstances, like also packing a firearm, are receiving plea deals that reduce the…
Seems there’s there’s no room at the posada for former state Senate President Russell Pearce. Yesterday, I gave you a rundown of the nativist goons set to appear at Macayo’s Mexican Restaurant on Central Avenue tonight for a fundraiser to benefit Pearce, a veritable who’s who of anti-Mexican bigots in…
