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: Help Sal Reza’s Macehualli Center Tomorrow by Eating at Applebee’s Up on the Sun: The…
After a year of debate and study amongst its 20 panel members, the University of Denver’s Strategic Issues Program released a final report today titled “Architecture for Immigration Reform,” which provides an honest assessment of America’s immigration dilemma along with detailed suggestions for guiding U.S. immigration policy.There’s much to like about the…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon established a federal political action committee in late 2007, hoping, he later said, to “educate members of Congress on the needs in Phoenix.”But in its two years of activity to date, the committee’s biggest beneficiary has been Gordon’s girlfriend, Elissa Mullany. Federal election records show that,…
The presiding judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court has assigned the criminal cases against Judge Gary Donahoe and County Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox to judges in other counties. Presiding Judge Barbara Mundell, (left) who is herself a target of the broad — and vague — racketeering…
Lisa Jackson, the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, has been so focused on saving the world from America’s greenhouse gases that she seems to have forgetten about serious pollution in the Phoenix area. Jackson is in Copenhagen this week for the international talks on carbon reductions, and on Monday…
Scottsdale’s premiere PGA golf tournament has a new name, and it won’t do much to help the tournament’s unsavory image among golf’s elite.The Phoenix Open — or the FBR Open, as it’s been known since 2004 — is often criticized by the PGA’s most pompous linisters. Many, including the philandering Tiger…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas this afternoon struggled to explain his decision to charge the county’s presiding criminal court judge, Gary Donahoe, with three felony counts –bribery, obstructing a criminal investigation, and hindering prosecution.But Thomas couldn’t offer any evidence to the assembled media scrum that Donahoe actually had accepted a…
As the saying often goes, politics certainly makes for some interesting bedfellows, and from the looks of things, PR whiz Jason Rose has got the biggest bed in town.Rose has ties to Sheriff Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas, and based on a seven degrees of Jason Rose chart compiled by…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office announced this morning that a criminal complaint has been filed against the Superior Court’s criminal division chief, Judge Gary Donahoe (at left). Michael Scerbo, spokesman for County Attorney Andrew Thomas, stated in a news release that Donahoe is being accused of hindering prosecution and…
There is an unwanted phenomenon happening in California, and Arizona is being pegged to clean up the mess: Chihuahuas — lots of them.California is seeing an influx of chihuahuas popping up at animal shelters, and it’s becoming too much for the state to handle.Rather than take these unwanted pooches out…
Phoenix human rights activist Sal Reza’s Macehualli Day Labor Center at 25th Street and Bell Road is in dire financial straits, and you can help by eating at one of two Applebee’s locations Thursday, December 10. As part of Applebee’s Dining to Donate program, the Phoenix restaurants at 2 East Camelback…
We’ve just gotten word that the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has filed a “special action” with the Arizona Court of Appeals in legal protest of Judge Gary Donahoe’s recent jailing of county Detention Officer Adam Stoddard. We haven’t yet seen the pleading, filed on behalf of Stoddard and the Maricopa County…
Gannett, the behemoth parent company of the Arizona Republic, is issuing another round of furloughs, despite financial improvements, according to an internal memo sent out last week. This will be the third round of furloughs for the company since the first quarter of 2009. The memo, which is written in…
[jump] According to booking records, Foster was charged with loitering to beg and violation of a promise to appear. In other words, he was panhandling, and somebody felt threatened by a man who looks like a hairy version of Edvard Munch’s The Scream and called the cops. It’s tough to look good…
It seems as if the Phoenix Suns are playing only road games this year. Of course, they’ve suited up at US Airways Center a few times, but, indeed, they’ve been away from home a lot thus far: a league-high 15 games out of the first 22 they’ve played, to be…
Police in Glendale are warning the community about burglars posing as neighbors. They say they’ve connected a string of burglaries in Phoenix and Glendale to two men, whom police say go to houses and pose as new neighbors or previous residents to get inside. After asking to use the bathroom…
As that great Phoenix philosopher Fronzo “the Fonz” West once asked in a riddle worthy of a Buddhist koan, “How do you call the cops on the cops?” Here in Mari-Kafka County, the problem’s compounded by the fact that one of the most corrupt law enforcement agencies in the nation…
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: Up on the Sun: Top 10 Geek Obsessions of the Decade Club Candids at Fibber Magees Chow…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon hasn’t needed to raise money since he waltzed to reelection in the fall of 2007, leaving a war chest stocked with $370,000. Yet in the last two years, Gordon has paid his chief fundraiser big bucks all the same. Records show that Gordon paid fundraiser Elissa…
A judge has recused herself from the case that sparked a contempt-of-court order for a detention officer who removed papers from a defense attorney’s file. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Lisa Flores filed a minute entry this morning saying the court can’t rely on the Sheriff’s Office to get a…
Prosecutors working for Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas persuaded a grand jury to indict Mary Rose Wilcox, the lone Democrat on the county Board of Supervisors, on 36 felony counts. But they should have a much harder time getting those charges to stick in court. That’s because this indictment is even sloppier than…
It may have poured in the Valley yesterday but coming off of a 30-17 win against Brett Favre and the then 11-1 Vikings, it was nothing but sunshine for Arizona Cardinals fans.The big win put the Cards back on the NFC radar and it was announced today that Cards quarterback…
