By Ray Stern Remember what Sheriff Joe Arpaio said last month after a federal judge found Maricopa County jail conditions to be inadequate? He called the changes ordered by the judge to be “minor” and that he’s “always committed to improving the jail system wherever possible.” Now it looks like…
Limbaugh blathered on November 10 about the outrageous ban in the Arizona judicial system on perceived derogatory terms referring to immigrants. Problem was, no such ban had been decreed.
Republican Jan Brewer, now the secretary of state, would automatically become governor for the remainder of Napolitano’s term — until 2010 — if Janet stepped down.
President-Elect Barack Obama is showing his social savvy in the Digital Age. As reported in The Washington Post last week, Obama not only put his weekly Democratic address on YouTube last Saturday, but plans to regularly post online Q&A videos and interviews both at his Web site, change.gov, and on the popular video Web site, YouTube. The next step, say political observers and YouTube head of news and politics, Steve Grove, is an Internet video version of the “fireside chats” first popularized on radio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1944.
It looks like year three is going to be about how they didn’t get the food right in year one or year two.
Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he’ll be the Prez, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in this country. Take, for example, Philadelphia lawyer Phil Berg, a former…
By Ray Stern In a police interview tape, the 8-year-old boy suspected of killing two in St. Johns sticks to his story that he came home and found the bodies. But police have already said the boy confessed to the crime, meaning his words in this video are just another…
Law officers including deputy marshals and task force officers from Phoenix and northern California finally caught up to Sherwood yesterday as he was leaving services at the Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco.
By Sarah Fenske The Arizona Secretary of State has found “reasonable cause” to believe the Arizona Republican Party broke the law by accepting $105,000 in contributions from a high ranking member of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s staff. The finding came last week, according to public records obtained by New Times, and…
By Ray Stern John McCain becomes an Obama transition buddy. That ought to put to rest the whole “pals around with terrorists” thing McCain’s campaign pushed, shouldn’t it? Arizona Cardinals score another win – ya excited yet? Tyke found in drophouse will be reunited with worried parents in Mexico in…
By Michael Lacey State checks that finance aid for the severely disabled have gone missing for months. Hanky panky or a sign of the economic times and a harbinger of things to come? Since the answer involves some of the largest corporate names in philanthropy, the government will not be…
Jesse Curnow, organizer of the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition. Ever want to shake hands with your friendly, neighborhood neo-Nazi? Well, here’s your chance. This Saturday afternoon, November 15 at the main branch of the Mesa library, the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition will be meeting…
By John Dickerson The sheriff gave New Times an additional video today of inmate Juan Mendoza Farias’ short-but-fatal stint in jail, but the new video – like the previous one – stops before showing what a gang of jail guards did to Farias prior to his death. On Wednesday the…
The two struggled, at which point Saridakis — who was armed at the time — says he could have shot and killed Jones, but didn’t want to.
Beatie is legally a man, but no medical or chemical procedure has changed the fact that she’s still a woman — as her pregnancy proves beyond all doubt.
Whether the new slayings involve similar breakdowns in security or procedures at the prisons will be answered in investigative reports still being prepared, says Department of Corrections spokesman Nolberto Machiche.
By Ray Stern Parent-of-the-year story in the Repub: Wasted mommy shows up at a daycare to pick up her 4-year-old daughter, but she had already driven the kid home hours before. Back at home, a neighbor finds the girl alone, eating Ovaltine powder from a can. Other news today: A…
Anything to get the boob on the boob tube, eh, Joe? Say you’re sick of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s aged, authoritarian blowhole? So much so that the mere sight of his flaccid turkey neck and oily pate causes the sudden need to blow chunks and an insatiable desire to kick a…
By John Dickerson Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s attorney has turned over part of a video of a jail inmate’s death at the hands of county jailers. But the video, which New Times has been seeking for four months, stops about 10 minutes before the suspicious death of Juan Mendoza Farias. The…
“I can tell you with absolute certainty that every breath test result on an Intoxilyzer 8000 is inaccurate,” Nesci says.
It’s a groundbreaking moment in the search for other planets and possibly other life in the universe.
FOX News regular Michelle Dallacroche says she’s shutting down MAIA due to lack of funds. I owe nativist firebrand Michelle Dallacroce a wiener. And I mean that in the sweetest way possible. Ever since the utra-right urban cougar sent out a surprising mass e-mail October 28 announcing that her Phoenix-based…
