The Arizona Republic editorialized this morning that county leadership is out of control, and says in its closing argument that “a higher, saner power must step in.”Obviously, they’re talking about the feds — not this wimpy guy: Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democrat, is evidently powerless against his Republican…
There was speculation that Republican AZ Senator Jim Waring would consider a run for state treasurer, and this week he made it official.Yesterday, term-limited Waring planned to set up an exploratory committee to begin raising money to become Arizona’s top banker, and will close up shop on a committee he started to…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas claimed at a news conference on Tuesday that allegations of problems with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial-disclosure forms “haven’t panned out.” He also says that if his office received bona fide information about a possible violation of the law, he’d act on it. Well, Mr. Thomas and…
The Arizona Republic has compiled a list of what it feels are the top 10 Phoenix Coyotes stories of the decade and as, um, shocking as it may seem, only two of them actually pertain to something the team did on the ice.Frankly, they’re the only two stories on the…
The opulent Mondrian resort in Scottsdale is facing foreclosure, after the owners failed to restructure $40 million in delinquent loans. The hotel, one of a dozen owned by New York-based Morgan Hotel Group, remains open for now, but a notice of trustee’s sale was filed this week, with an initial…
The nativists talked a big game on the United for a Sovereign America Web site, calling for a protest of two Applebee’s restaurants in Phoenix that were participating in a fundraiser for Sal Reza’s Macehualli Work Center. But other than harassing the employees and customers of the two locations, the…
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: Feathered Bastard: Activist Dennis Gilman’s Letter of Disgust to Eric Holder’s DOJ Investigators Up on the Sun:…
Adam Stoddard, the sticky-fingered detention officer jailed for defying a court order demanding he apologize to a defense attorney for taking her legal papers, has been released from jail.At a press conference this afternoon, Stoddard stepped up to the microphone, spoke for less than a minute, cast a victorious smirk, and…
Our acquaintance is anything but a squishy liberal, having served for a few decades as a prosecutor of major felonies for one of Arizona’s 15 counties (we’ll leave it at that for reasons that soon will become apparent). He let us know that he read the direct complaint and…
More than 300 of Arizona’s top Lego architects will be meeting at Arizona State University on Saturday to compete in the First Lego League robotic championships…
Diane Tvert is a self-described “child of the ’70’s,” so when her son wrote a 192-page book about why weed is safer than alcohol that has found itself on best-seller lists, she was quick to give him a ringing endorsement.”My mom is totally on board,” Mason Tvert, author of the…
Deputies are taking boxes of files from the Chicanos Por La Causa buildings at 11th Street and Buckeye Road as the group’s supporters prepare for a possible anti-Sheriff-Joe-Arpaio demonstration. (See update below — a demonstration is now looking less likely). A regional conference of Chicanos Por La Causa officials is…
Like a lot of anti-Arpaio activists in town, videographer Dennis Gilman has been helping the U.S. Department of Justice gather evidence of abuse of power and racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. He’s provided them with a massive amount of video that he and others have culled while…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies are serving a search warrant this morning at the Chicanos Por la Causa, Inc., 1122 East Buckeye Road. We’re not sure, but it seems safe to assume it might have something to do with the criminal charges filed this week against Mary Rose Wilcox, one of…
Arizona’s got a brand new pair of “bandits” that the FBI believes are linked to at least six bank robberies since October.The FBI is calling the bank-robbing duo the “High Country Bandits” because the majority of their robberies have occurred in places like Payson and Prescott…
Representative Judy Burges’, um, briliant scheme to raise a few extra bucks to help bridge the state’s budget gap is apparently building up some steam in the Legislature.The “I didn’t pay enough fund,” a bill introduced by Burges last week, politely asks citizens to fork over more money than they…
A group of 25 to 30 hunters are believed to be stranded in northern Arizona after the recent winter storm. A Coconino County Sheriff’s Office spokesman says there are eight hunting groups, some including children, with whom they’re trying to communicate. Some hunters have been reached via cell phone, but…
As a Chicano/Mexican, I have lost my faith in God. While they take pride in their country like everyone else, and like to make frequent jokes, Mexicans are generally very humble (poor) people. Isn’t God supposed to be on the side of the poor and humble? Why is it that…
CAUGHT IN HIS TRAP Trap’s got it all: There’s no reason why Trap can’t be that dude to take Phoenix to the next level in hip-hop. I mean, you name it: talent, personality, drive, business sense . . . He has them, and more. Y’all watch out for this dude…
THE LIE THIS TIME One of the most insidious myths of the anti-immigrant movement is that the undocumented receive truckloads of public assistance, that they are a drain on the system, costing the American public untold billions. I heard this vicious lie repeated over and over again during a nativist…
Editor’s note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forces. The next personal story will appear on our Web site Wednesday night, December 16. Manuel Nieto Jr. and his sister Velia Meraz, key plaintiffs in the ACLU’s racial-profiling lawsuit filed last…
President Barack Obama gracefully accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Here, in Phoenix, Arizona, we enjoy little peace; indeed, we live in the chaos generated by a reign of terror that Obama has done little to address. Yes, his federal investigators are here examining the assaults against…
