Part One of Amy Goodman’s recent Democracy Now! segment on Janet Napolitano. Part Two from the same Democracy Now! show. If you want a quick video primer on why today’s official pick of Gov. Janet Napolitano to be Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary is a disaster for those concerned about…
New Times first reported two weeks ago that the speed cameras being placed abundantly throughout town by the Arizona Department of Public Safety were being “vandalized” with — gasp — Post-It notes. Scofflaw activists hope placing the sticky notes on camera lenses will bring attention to their cause and allow at least a few speeding motorists to…
Barack Obama has named Arizona’s governor Janet Napolitano as the nation’s Homeland Security secretary. This is Janet’s biggest spotlight ever, and the country is being hit with a flurry of news stories about her. Obama made it official this morning during a news conference in Chicago. According to an Associated Press article just…
If there’s anything the tragedy in St. Johns should teach you, it’s that if you plan to spank your eight year old 1,000 times, you may not want to show him how to shoot a rifle. Either that, or you might want to consider the option of a “time out”…
Hard to believe we’re breathing this soup, isn’t it? Apart from that disturbing detail, the brown haze lingering below the summit of 2,704-foot Camelback Mountain looked almost pretty near sunset on Sunday evening. The skyscrapers of downtown can barely be seen through the opaque cloud, but winter thermal inversion keeps…
Two loses to two terrible-to-mediocre teams in the past two games. In fact, the Phoenix Suns are 2-2 against such opponents in the past four games. Did we mention that Amare Stoudemire got two technical fouls, the latter of which put him in the locker room and pretty much assured a Suns 117-109…
The thing that’s annoyed me most post-November 4 is the way state Dems seem to be shrugging and taking their losses locally on the chin. Rather than being infuriated that the state Democratic Party effed up, Dems seemingly have been resigned to getting cornholed royally by Republicans, as if that’s…
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: Snow for Dough: Valley Strip Mall Breaks Out the White…
There’s this thing called The Zone. (No, Phoenicians, not that super scary area in the avenues near the Arizona State Capitol.) It’s that Zen-like state where you’re being and not doing, whether its creating art or dominating an opponent in sports. On November 4, 2008 in East Rutherford, New Jersey,…
Times are tough for Republicans, (nationally, anyway). While the Democratic Party’s Web site offers only a lousy T-shirt to contributors, Republicans have a whole online store of overpriced, tax-deductible gifts for supporters. We recently received an e-mail from one Sue Gadzo, director of the RNC’s membership services, looking for buyers…
Desert dwellers can feel a splash of snow falling on their heads this holiday season at one East Valley strip mall. The still-spanking-new Tempe Marketplace will be dropping snow on shoppers every night till Christmas. Well, not really snow, but an artificial look-alike that dissolves instantly — you can’t ski or…
Rewind, for a moment, to the 2005-06 NBA season. The Miami Heat visit the Phoenix Suns in a marquee matchup. Talk of a future NBA Finals series between the two powerhouses flood the sports talk airwaves. But despite Shaquille O’Neal’s (playing for Miami at the time) team-leading 13 rebounds, the…
It’s one of our favorite times of the year, and not just because of all the great food and the blessed relief that temps under 100 degrees can bring. No, we’re talking about the Arizona high school football championships, and all the goofy color and pagentry that the homestretch…
The tryptophan and the Tom Collinses put us under during the second half of the Arizona Cardinals’ game with the Philadelphia Eagles. Sleep was a tender mercy, because replay of the last two quarters demonstrates that the Eagles continued to dine on Red Bird for the whole game. The 48-20 loss,…
Suns Coach Terry Porter (pictured) is always stressing defense. But, while he’s gotten the team to respond some, he hasn’t gotten it to respond much. Look at Thanksgiving Eve’s 110-102 road win over the Minnesota Timberwolves.First of all the Timberwolves are a 3-10 team. Their only big threat is forward Al Jefferson,…
Gay rights supporters to hold vigil at Mormon temple tonightWest Valley school districts sue to stop unification…
I hear all the time that 12 million illegal immigrants live in the United States. Is that true? Who counted them? How did they do it? Is there a turnstile at the border tallying up illegals and stamping their hands with neon glowing cartoon characters so they can go back…
JAIL INJUSTICE Absolutely no justification: Your story on the way Juan Mendoza Farias died is, indeed, shocking. It’s a gross understatement to say so (“The Shocking Details,” John Dickerson, November 20). There seems no way that the county jail guards were justified in treating a human being so savagely. And…
Four months ago, ASU’s journalism school moved into its spiffy new home in downtown Phoenix. But the school’s public television affiliate didn’t come with it. Arizona’s biggest PBS station had failed to raise enough money to pay for its move. Today, KAET, known as “Channel Eight” to old timers and…
HOO’ DA MAN? Okay, this naughty nightingale will come clean with you bird brains. Once in a long while, this wily woodpecker has reason to check out the trashy offerings on that wacky Web site TheDirty.com. Like, say, the pics of erstwhile Cards starting QB Matt Leinart helping a hottie…
Consorting with anti-immigrant enforcers, indulging rank opportunism, and adhering to failed policies seem an unlikely recipe for change we can believe in. And yet this very cocktail of mediocrity — stirred by an early endorsement of Barack Obama — has thrust Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano into the heady midst of…
