Dirt on Don Stapley, a 15-year member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, began flowing in spring 2008 from County Attorney Andrew Thomas’ office. A paper trail of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office documents reveals the genesis of the case, though with potentially telling details omitted. Records state that the…
I live in a little village in England in a house that’s 200 years old, just down the hill from a tiny church so old that it was actually built before God said, “Let there be light,” thus proving that Stephen Hawking is a blowhard. The only industry around here,…
THE DEFIANT ONES Uh, Joe’s a politician, not a cop: We’re sick and tired of New Times always bashing the best police officer we have, Joe Arpaio, and building up those who oppose his crime fighting. This only helps the criminal element. That’s why it was nice to see The…
It isn’t every day that an administrative law judge issues a decision so juicy that it’s read all the way to the end — much less pored over with highlighters, schadenfreude, and the occasional “Oh, no he di’int!” But Judge William G. Kocol’s recent decision in a National Labor Board…
Phoenix New Times has an immediate opening for an editorial assistant (35 hours per week). This position is perfect for an organized self-starter who derives satisfaction from handling multiple tasks and working independently on long-term projects. Ideal candidates will have a college degree, excellent communication, computer, grammar, and math skills,…
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: Joe Arpaio Supporter Jim Gilchrist Takes Swipe at Ron Paul “Fanatics” and Every Other Nativist…
The East Valley Tribune could be in for a serious change in direction under the helm of its possible rescuer, Randy Miller, owner of Tucson’s Explorer newspapers. Miller has surfaced as the hopeful buyer of the battle-worn Trib, and a finalized letter of intent with the Trib’s parent company, Freedom Communications,…
The identity of the person who filed a letter of intent to buy the bankrupt East Valley Tribune was identified today by the Trib’s publisher, Freedom Communications. Randy Miller, president of Thirteenth Street Media and publisher of the Tucson Explorer, has finalized a letter of intent to buy the failing daily…
Sand Landers want former guv and now-DHS czar Janet Napolitano to keep polishing her chair in D.C. And not as a U.S. Senator. That’s what a new Cronkite-Eight poll reveals. In a hypothetical 2010 head-to-head between Nappy and Senator John McCain, McCain’d top Napolitano 50 to 41 percent. No surprise there, really. Nappy’s…
The lawsuits are beginning to mount up against “spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray, and the latest comes from someone who wasn’t even at the sweat lodge retreat that left three people dead and dozens injured. A man in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, has filed a lawsuit against Ray and the…
The one thing you can always count on with minutemen, nativists and neo-Nazis is more backstabbing than backstage at a Miss America Pageant. This video from VronRN2 of a conversation between anti-racist YouTuber Naui Ocelotl Huitzilopochtli (try saying that three times fast) and minuteman Jim Gilchrist is a perfect example. It took place…
Phoenix police are looking for the person responsible for torching two cars and a shed in a North Phoenix neighborhood last night…
Arizona State University senior linebacker Mike Nixon, the subject of last week’s New Times feature by Steve Jansen, was named a First Team Academic All-District VIII selection by ESPN The Magazine. This is the third time that Nixon has received the honor — a first for a football student-athlete at ASU…
Rosann Jimenez We know what you’re probably thinking, but the answer is no — this is not Governor Jan Brewer before a trip to the makeup chair…
The Memphis Grizzlies aren’t good. Like, not good like the St. Louis Rams. Crappy like the Phoenix Coyotes. Sucky like your sister-in-law’s Thanksgiving cranberry sauce. Thus far this season, the 2009-10 Grizzlies, led by second-year and second-stint head coach Lionel Hollins, are 5-9, which includes a 1-6 mark on the…
Based on the most recent job-loss data, Arizona may have been hit harder by the recession than Michigan, a state infamous for job losses in the past. The most recent data shows that Arizona, since the start of the recession, shows the highest percentage of job losses. Arizona, according to…
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: Joe Arpaio “First Amendment Forum” at ASU Cronkite School To Be Protested by Student Activists…
The most troubling thing about swine flu, a.k.a. H1N1, is who it kills: Young people. Or, if not young, certainly younger than any normal idea of “old.”With seasonal flu, about 90 percent of deaths occur in people over age 65, experts say.In Arizona this year, 103 people are confirmed to…
I just spoke with CBS 5/KPHO news producer Gilbert Zermeno, part of the award-winning team that put together the recent, blistering report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s abuse of power that ran at the end of October. That’s the one that featured reporter Morgan Loew’s interview with former U.S. Attorney and straight-shooter…
The news that a recent poll shows Joe Arpaio as the top dog in the GOP should he choose to run for governor seems to have Governor Jan Brewer looking for good news anywhere she can find it — including her Twitter page.In two separate “tweets,” Governor Jan is directing…
We loved KJ, otherwise known as Kevin Johnson, first as one of the all-time great Phoenix Suns and, later, as the subject of an unseemly New Times cover story entitled “The Summer of ’95.” In part, the story described how Johnson allegedly had engaged in sexual petting with a…
Wow.We’ve been known to scratch our heads at the Arizona Republic’s unwillingness to call a spade a spade — or even refer to said spade with a polite euphemism. But a recent editorial in the paper’s Ahwatukee community edition may take the cake as the daily’s most misguided, misleading, and…
