Get ready, Arizona: another John McCain-esque “build the danged fence” campaign ad is apparently on the horizon –this time, compliments of Congressional candidate Matt Salmon.GOP sources tell New Times Salmon headed down to the border last week to shoot an ad for his District 6 Congressional campaign. Apparently, he found…
If you happen to be running for president, do yourself a favor and avoid Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio like grim death — for the second time in two presidential elections, Arpaio’s horse in the race has crashed and burned.Just two days before the pivotal South Carolina primary, Texas Governor…
Steve Nash, rumored to be a free-agent target of the New York Knicks in the upcoming offseason, scored 26 points against the Knicks on Wednesday night in New York as the Phoenix Suns broke a five-game losing streak. The 91-88 final score extended the struggling Knicks’ losing skid to four…
President Barack Obama will be in Arizona on January 25 as part of a five-state swing across states Democrats feel are in play for the president in this year’s election.During his three-day, post-State of the Union trip, Obama also will visit Michigan, Colorado, Iowa, and Nevada — all states Dems…
I usually save reruns of my columna for when I have to smuggle in the latest cousin from the rancho, but the ascendancy of Republic presidential candidate Mitt Romney must be addressed — namely, that he’s half-Mexican. The lamestream media is treating this as a revelation — never mind that…
MENTALLY SPEAKING Those who’ve overcome: In the immediate aftermath of the attack [in Tucson by Jared Lee Loughner], 50 percent of Americans saw it as the result of failure in the mental-[healthcare] system, not simply mental illness. [In its “Shadow Dwellers” series published last year], New Times noted that six…
In 2005, during an otherwise typical tour of his West Phoenix district, then-Councilman Claude Mattox turned to a City Hall reporter and casually announced that Maryvale, once a premier master-planned community, used to be nice “until the illegals moved in.” It was the kind of statement from a politician that…
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday has come and gone. Just another day off for many. For others, a time of reflection. We all know that enemies of MLK Day, in Arizona and elsewhere, did not want King’s or African Americans’ struggle for civil rights in this county honored. Former…
Detectives from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office are heading to Santa Clara, California this afternoon, where they plan to serve a search warrant at Google headquarters to try and determine who’s responsible for death threats made against Sheriff Joe Arpaio on a website that glorifies killing cops.It’s a pretty tasteless…
Arizona needs to start up the 2010 Medical Marijuana Act as voters intended, but without several of the rules designed to restrict dispensary applicants, a judge has ordered.Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Richard Gama ruled on the Compassion First, LLC, lawsuit yesterday, noting that voters wanted the Act implemented 120…
As you may know, the Internet is “on strike” today. Well, not the entire Internet — just Wikipedia. Several other big-name, high-traffic websites — including Google and Craigslist — have “blacked out” their websites today in protest of a bill currently making its way through Congress that they say would…
We’re not sure what’s more disturbing: the fact that Anjelica Jimenez allowed her boyfriend to use a 4-month-old as an ashtray, or the fact that the baby was placed in Jimenez’s care by Child Protective Services.Regardless, Jimenez, 25, was in a Maricopa County court this morning where she pleaded guilty…
Jennifer Schuerman, the daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley’s secretary, will appear on the Dr. Drew “Lifechangers” Show today to talk about her recovery after a stroke.Schuerman was celebrating her 21st birthday in Las Vegas when an undiagnosed hole in her heart allowed a blood clot to pass through…
Fred Knadler, the owner of Phoenix-based Arizona Shower Door, is looking at a pretty pricey divorce from his wife of 17 years. So, police say, he concocted a scheme to make her “go away.”Things didn’t quite work out as planned — a man he enlisted to help carry out the…
Sadly, many of us who followed Muhammad Ali’s (aka Cassius Clay) boxing career and life for about a half-century suspected that he wouldn’t see a 70th birthday. Surely, we told ourselves privately, he never would outlast his nemesis, Smokin’ Joe Frazier, the Philadelphia fury who died late last year. Ali fought 41…
Olivia Cortes, the sham candidate the Tea Party fronted in order to dilute the vote in the 2011 recall of ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, will face no fines or orders to comply in regards to the work done on her behalf by signature-gathering company Petition Pros.Gila County Attorney Daisy…
The Department of Justice’s investigation into the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s alleged racial-profiling practices officially has become a PR showdown — in response to the the DOJ’s response to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s response to the DOJ’s investigation, the MCSO has now issued (you guessed it) its response…kinda.The MCSO’s response: it…
State Senate Minority Leader David Schapira, a Democrat, announced yesterday that he’s running for Congress in Arizona’s newly formed District 9.Much to the minority leader’s chagrin, we’re sure, he’s not the only lefty with his eye on the seat — former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema also has announced that she…
Despite starting with a great quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the closing argument released today in the discipline case against former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas isn’t a fun read.The 91-page document filed with the Arizona State Bar, which brought the case against Thomas, trots out the…
Police in Mesa have a problem: a man was fatally stabbed and authorities have no idea who did it.About 11:30 p.m. Friday, police responded to a call about a car that crashed into a home on East McLellan Road.The person who called 9-1-1 told dispatchers that the driver of the…
The Department of Justice this afternoon sent a letter to attorneys representing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in response to demands Sheriff Joe Arpaio made earlier this month regarding evidence the feds claim to have that shows the MCSO is guilty of the worst racial-profiling practices in U.S. history.The sheriff’s…
An inmate at the Durango Jail died last night — and it wasn’t at the hands of a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detention officer, according to the MCSO.MCSO Officer Chris Hegstrom tells New Times the death is being investigated as a “natural causes death.”Hegstrom says he won’t identify the dead…
