Dennis Gilman’s video of the Saturday march, featuring Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O’odham people. Gilman’s video of the Saturday anti-Arpaio protest led by Zack de la Rocha is particularly cool because of an address he captured at the beginning of the march, given by Shannon Rivers of the Akimel…
The Z Gallerie stores on Mill Avenue in Tempe and at Scottsdale’s Fashion Square Mall closed over the weekend after huge sales that saw quality home furnishings going for 75 percent off.While the mall still has big-name anchors like Nieman-Marcus and Dillard’s, the funky furniture store was itself an anchor…
Score one for safety. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Louis Araneta last week dimissed a U.S. Airways pilot’s lawsuit against three flight attendants who complained about him to the Federal Aviation Administration. The flight attendants filed their complaint after the pilot, First Officer Ed Gannon, initially resisted their suggestion that he needed to de-ice…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s and Sheriff’s offices have filed a lawsuit against the county Board of Supervisors in a bid to block the use of $11 million allegedly designated only for law enforcement purposes. The source of the latest squabble is simple to sum up: Money. According to the news…
Question: How much money does Kurt Warner need?! Answer: As much as he can possibly get. Forget all that Christian stuff when it comes to big-time athlete bucks; everybody wants every million they can wring out. Warner’s agent, Mark Bartelstein, wants us to believe that Kurt’s too moral to create a controversy to…
Helmed by Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, Saturday’s parade culminated in thousands demonstrating their values on the steps of the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse. Once the route ended, De la Rocha shared his thoughts on the 287(g) program, Arpaio and Former Governor Janet Napolitano. See…
Sometime later this week, the Maricopa County County Superior Court jury of 12 men and women finally should begin deliberations in the murder case of sports nutritionist Doug Grant. The high-profile case has been especially contentious on every level — family vs. family, prosecutor vs. defense attorney, judge (often) vs. defense attorney…
Poor Sandra Dowling. The former Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools just can’t catch a break. First there was the criminal indictment — charged with 25 counts related to public corruption, she was presumed to be a crook in newspaper headlines across the state. Then, while the criminal case was still pending, a…
When I heard about radio great Paul Harvey’s death at his Phoenix home at age 90, it got me thinking about a memorable interview I had with him about 30 years ago. At the time, I’d already been listening to Harvey’s “News and Comment” segment for many years. Despite its corniness, I loved the show. It…
What a weekend for Planet Orange, and its largest inhabitant! We’re beginning to think of the Phoenix Suns as a planet again, after back-to-back victories against the Toronto Raptors and the Los Angeles Lakers at US Airways Center Friday night and Sunday afternoon. Shaquille O’Neal’s certainly big enough to be Jupiter, and…
City boosters want downtown Phoenix to have a “brand” — as soon as someone can figure out what it might be… The jury is still out this morning in the trial of alleged serial shooter Dale Hausner after deliberating all day Friday — is it really that hard?… Illegal immigrant…
My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration abuses. Led by Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, as well Phoenix civil…
THIS JUST ADDED: Zack doing an inspiring version of “People of the Sun” at Tonatierra. The closest thing to compare it to that I can think of, is that famous footage in the documentary Don’t Look Back of a young Bob Dylan singing Only a Pawn in Their Game at a…
We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Valley Fever: Judge Orders Thomas to Show Conflicts in Case Vs. County…
Scottsdale has quietly begun to thwart photo enforcement violators who try to dodge process servers, repeatedly motioning the city court to allow tickets to be mailed or posted to a scofflaw’s front door. Thanks to efforts by New Times and others, most Arizonans now understand the limitations of photo enforcement tickets. Unless the violator is…
Well, here’s one sure to spook the socks off the nativists — Gilman’s latest YouTube effort promoting the anti-Arpaio march tomorrow. This little poison pill features loads of video coughed up by the sheriff’s office in the case of Juan Mendoza Farias, a poor sap who went into Arpaio’s roach…
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is dead wrong about the state’s inability to prosecute criminal speeders using photo enforcement evidence, says State Attorney General Terry Goddard. In an official memo to Roger Vanderpool, director of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Goddard explains that “Mr. Thomas’ conclusions do not appear…
Okay, Kurt Warner’s on the open market. He and the Arizona Cardinals, though talking, didn’t come to terms on a contract before the free-agency deadline today. What does this mean? Well, he could go to another team, that’s what it means. How much does this matter. Maybe a lot (it…
A bogus news story about college students getting herpes from a drinking game contained a fake quote from Arizona State University president Michael Crow, according to a correction by the Los Angeles TV station KNBC.The erroneous article claims the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has concerns about the herpes…
The lawsuit filed against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors by County Attorney Andrew Thomas can proceed, a judge has ruled, but Thomas must disclose any potential conflicts of interest in the case. Retired Superior Court Judge Donald Daughton also kicked Sheriff Joe Arpaio off the lawsuit, which Thomas and…
The Phoenix Suns have built a presence on social networking site Twitter, and now some local Twitterers and Suns fans are helping to bring Suns players and fans together via a site called sunstweets.com. Several months ago, the Planet Orange presence on Twitter was started by Amy Jo Martin, Director…
www.nba.com Lamar Odom: “The Goods” played out of his skull in L.A. last night. For a precious few minutes in the first quarter of last night’s Suns/Lakers game in La-La Land, the Suns held their own against the NBA’s best. No, it was better than that. They were rolling, running,…
