The Maricopa County Community College District board is considering adding transgendered people to its list of groups protected from harassment.Arizona State University and the University of Arizona have included transgendered people in their anti-discrimination policies for years. Currently, the community colleges recognize things like race, religion, and sexual orientation in…
Don Bivens, the former chairman of the Arizona Democratic Party, made it official this morning: he’s running for the United States Senate.Bivens, a Phoenix-based attorney, announced on his campaign website this morning that he’ll seek the Democratic nomination to run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl.”I’m…
Three games into the 2011 NFL season, and the Arizona Cardinals aren’t off to a great start — they’re now 1-2 following a 13-10 loss to the Seahawks in Seattle yesterday afternoon.Cards quarterback Kevin Kolb passed for 252 yards in the loss, but only managed to find the end zone…
We spent a few hours last Saturday night at the 5th annual Jason Schechterle Scholarship Ball, and enjoyed ourselves immensely. Schechterle’s name (and his face) are recognizable to most Valley residents: He’s the former Phoenix cop who was rear-ended by a speeding taxi in his Ford Victoria cruiser a decade…
Check out these two segments of a recent interview done by Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik of state Senate hopeful and conservative Republican Jerry Lewis, who is looking to topple state Senate President Russell Pearce in the Legislative District 18 recall election.In them, Lewis takes on the issue of immigration directly,…
A triumphant energy filled Chase Field this past weekend as the Arizona Diamondbacks swept the San Francisco Giants and won the National League West championship in the process. The D-Backs were in a mood to party all weekend as they crushed the playoff dreams of the defending World Series champions…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of the Internet’s latest “sensation,” George Lindell, for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..Lindell is now Internet famous for his enthusiastic (to say the least) account of a car wreck…
The judge plays defense for Pearce loyalist Pat Oldroyd at a recent LD 19 meetingLester Pearce, brother to state Senate President Russell Pearce and longtime Justice of the Peace for the North Mesa Justice Court, allegedly has been campaigning on behalf of his embattled sibling, despite a prohibition on such…
It’s official: The Arizona Diamondbacks are going to the playoffs. Kirk Gibson’s squad grabbed ahold of the National League West crown tonight after a hard-fought 3-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Chase Field. And, in what has become the norm for Arizona this season, it was a come-from-behind…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
Hot off the presses: A lawsuit brought by elections law attorney Tom Ryan on behalf of Legislative District 18 voter Mary Lou Boettcher, challenging the legitimacy of Olivia Cortes, the so-called “sham” recall candidate put forward by friends, family and supporters of state Senate President Russell Pearce.Ryan was responsible for…
The Arizona Department of Public Safety confirmed this afternoon what has been assumed since Wednesday: the two unidentified men killed in a car wreck on US 93 Tuesday night were BMX racers Rickey Bates and Gary Dimartine.Bates, 25, from Florida, was driving the gray 1995 Ford Explorer that collided head…
One look at convicted sex offender Jamal Mitchell’s most-recent arrest report, and you’d think the guy’s incapable of taking a breath without breaking the law, which wouldn’t be too far from the truth. A convicted sex offender/multiple felon who’s served time in prison, Mitchell’s now charged with a laundry list…
Mesa resident Michael Jared Surgeon had so much kiddie porn on his computer that it caused his hard drive to crash. Apparently not caring that his computer was jam-packed with kiddy porn, he took it to a computer-repair shop — and that’s why he’s currently facing 10 counts of sexual…
The complaint filed by Democratic precinct committeeman and former candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 18 Robert McDonald in the ever-widening Russell Pearce/Olivia Cortes scandal has just been shot down by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office.In a letter from State Election Director Amy Chan (formerly Amy Bjelland, Chan…
We wrote a little story for this paper in the Dark Ages (before, yikes, the Internet!) about the last meals that Arizona’s death row inmates order in advance should their time ever come. We asked Mike Arra, then the public-information officer for the Arizona corrections department, to provide us…
man who attacked state Representative Frank Pratt earlier this year — and then bragged about the beating to police — pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of kidnapping.Hillyard Scott, 34, initially was charged with one count each of aggravated assault, kidnapping, robbery, burglary, and theft stemming from the Christmas Day…
Male nurse Richard Sangalang was in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he was sentenced to a year in jail after pleading guilty to one count of luring a minor for sex via the Internet.The minor, as is often the case with pervs who like to meet kids…
As I discuss at length in my column this week, state Senate President Russell Pearce wrestles almost daily with the truth, and so, too, do many of his supporters. So, not surprisingly, Pearce’s main challenger in the Legislative District 18 recall election, Mesa educator and Republican Jerry Lewis, has become the…
George Lindell, the Valley’s latest “Internet sensation,” is officially Internet (ahem) famous.He recently gave an enthusiastic (to say the least) account of a car wreck for a local TV station that has made the rounds on the Internet, and introduced the world to a new catch phrase: “reality hits you…
California Attorney General Kamala Harris decided yesterday that she won’t review the San Diego County Sheriff Department’s findings that the bizarre death of Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of Scottsdale-based Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai — who asked Harris to review the case — was a suicide.Harris says the AG’s Office only…
Bravo to Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik for tonight’s news segment where he pays a visit to the modest residence of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes, and stops by the homes of some of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s relatives to ask them why they circulated petitions for Cortes.As…
