We gabachos get differing reports regarding the Reconquista. Some say it’s a genuine movement, well under way. Others claim it’ll never happen, but that it’s useful as a slogan that both antagonizes white America and energizes young Mexicans. Let’s say for now that it’s a genuine movement destined for success…
On the night of February 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. The respected 44-year-old sergeant was checking results from the recent union elections, in which he was running for station representative. Steady…
HE’S A WINNER! Allow me to be the first to congratulate Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio as the recipient of the 2009 Bull Connor Award, recognizing “outstanding achievement in the promotion of racial discrimination, disregard of human rights, abuse of power, and general hatred of the ‘other.'” Of course, Joe…
I’ve been under the gun recently, so I haven’t had time to post pics and give a little report of what happened this past Sunday at Tempe’s Faithful Word Baptist Church, home of the Obama-must-die pastor Stephen Anderson. The crowd of protesters led by local activist Leonard Clark was much smaller this…
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: Scottsdale’s The Buzz Shuts Down Neba and What Laura Says to Play a…
In her novel Mansfield Park, Jane Austin writes: “The younger brother must help pay for the pleasure of the elder.”Well, life has once again imitated art, only this time it happened in a Yavapai County courthouse.Preston Haymes, a 19-year-old from Phoenix, was arrested yesterday after police say he impersonated his older…
Maricopa County Elections Department Director Karen Osborne referred the SCA case to his office earlier this month — saying she’d found reasonable cause to believe that “a number of individuals and entities acted alone and in concert” to violate state campaign finance law.But Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas hasn’t decided…
Authorities had searched high and low for 53-year-old Kelley Tate (above), who went missing in the rugged Superstition Mountains last Thursday. But they didn’t search low enough. After 150 searchers combed the mountains for days, utilizing dogs, horses, and a helicopter, a phoned-in tip led to the discovery of Tate’s…
Someone must have given probable gubernatorial candidate and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard the first lesson in Politics 101: Old people vote.On Monday, Goddard announced that his office will be holding a series of “Senior Anti-Crime Universities,” designed to inform oldsters how to avoid everything from identity theft to getting abused by hospital…
The Phoenix Suns are in the process of reducing their players to NASCAR-driver status with a new deal that allows corporate sponsorship of practice uniforms and the team’s practice court.The team announced today that they have struck an agreement with the Annexus Group, a Phoenix-based annuity-design firm, to put the company’s logo…
A 14-year-old boy, whom police in Louisiana found malnourished, injured, and living in a dumpy old trailer with his abusive father, is being returned to his mother here in Arizona.Last week, a St. Bernard Parish constable went to the trailer park where the boy lived with his father, with the intention of…
Apparently allowing any idiot with a permit to bring a gun into a bar wasn’t enough to satisfy Arizona’s gun lobby.The Arizona Citizens Defense League, a new political action committee recently formed by local gun lobbyists, hopes to pull the strings of state leaders and sway upcoming elections toward flintlock-friendly…
Three unidentified sources “from different parts of the political spectrum” hint that a state investigation of Governor Janice Brewer may be coming down the pike, says the Phoenix Business Journal.A September 5 article by Mike Sunnucks says that questions have arisen about the way Brewer uses her power and how,…
Have you ever stopped to think about how cool it would be if your gadgets fixed themselves? Of course you haven’t, because that would be CRAZY. Crazy or not, self-healing machines are exactly what several University of Arizona professors and graduate students have been researching for the past two years…
After a pathetic showing in the ’09 season, most D-backs fans would probably prefer that the lovable losers not play anyone next season, let alone the soon to be World Series Champion New York Yankees.Unfortunately for Phoenicians who don’t just go to Chase Field when the Cubs, Dodgers, or Mets…
As far as Eric Byrnes is concerned, 2009 has been the “year of the goat.” The 33-year-old left fielder has been consistently railed on by fans and sports wags over the bulk of the last two seasons for his incompetent ballplaying, repeated whiffs, occasional tantrums, and failing to justify his…
Nearly one million doses of the H1N1 vaccine are scheduled to arrive in Arizona next month, but not everybody will get a shot right away. Health officials are reserving the initial batch of shots for health-care workers, children, and expectant mothers, and say the general public may not get their…
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: Kanye West, Lady Gaga Plot Tour: Phoenix is First Stop Royal Filth Kicks…
Dennis Burke, one of former Governor Janet Napolitano’s chiefs of staff, has been confirmed as the next U.S. Attorney in Arizona. Burke’s ultra-qualified for the job. He’s a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of Arizona, worked as counsel under former Arizona U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcini, is a former…
This month’s GQ is the forum for the newest embarrassing tell-all about the Bush White House, with ex-presidential speechwriter Matt Latimer telling readers what the ex-prez really thought about the John McCain campaign and a pathetic showing at a Phoenix campaign stop.Latimer describes telling W about a McCain campaign event right…
It was a sluggish summer for Metro light rail, but ridership is ramping up again thanks to a new semester at Arizona State University. Officials estimate the trains were boarded 882,328 times in August, which was far more than in either June or July. Traffic on the rail dropped from…
As much as we hate to quote Keanu Reeves, in the 1989 film “Parenthood,” his halfwit character “Tod” makes a coarse but eloquent point about paternity.When describing his father to his future mother-in-law, “Tod” tells her, “You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive…
