How freakin’ retarded is it when ASU makes Andy Thomas sound prescient with its actions? After reading a blurb in the Sunday Arizona Republic about a temporary ban on local wing-nut talk radio station KTAR 92.3FM in ASU buses, I was reminded of something County Attorney Andrew “Candy” Thomas said…
My invoking the argot of Black artists achieved a level of insensitive stupidity almost galactic in scale. Whatever discussion lingers about the use of the words “bitch” or “ho” in hip-hop, comedy, film or literature, there is no question about the N-bomb coming out of the mouth of a 59…
The Arizona chapter of the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement this afternoon calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to look into accusations of racial profiling by the MCSO as part of Sheriff Joe’s anti-immigrant dragnets. The press release reads: ADL CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF PROFILING SURROUNDING MARICOPA…
Ipso schmucko: Candy never walks alone, even to the loo… Boy, Republican County Attorney Candy Thomas sure is a real, uh, candy-ass. According to a story this morning on the ASU Web Devil — the university’s online news source, Candy showed up to a College Republican meet-up at ASU last…
On the Rocks at Suede lasted from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and had everything that defines a night out in Scottsdale: beautiful people, gourmet food and lots of liquor.
I’ve never cottoned to the The Arizona Republic ‘s schoolmarmish scribe E.J. Montini, who if offered a butcher knife and the dotted line indicating a corrupt politician’s jugular, would opt for inflicting a pinprick to the pol’s shin. Once every 20 columns or so, Montini hits the mark. Otherwise, he…
By Paul Rubin Minutes after a jury convicted Robert Stanley Ortloff of murdering 20-year-old Kathleen Smith back in October 1984, one of her brothers summed it all up perectly. “I felt it could go either way because of all the time that had passed and because there wasn’t the physical…
More than 400 young girls have been freed from the bonds of “spiritual marriage” to older men as the result of a police raid of a polygamist compound operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in San Angelo, Texas.
SPECIAL DÍA DE LOS IMPUESTOS EDICIÓN Sitting on my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my Social Security number for two years in Albuquerque to get paid, and didn’t bother to pay taxes. It’s taken me…
SIDEWALK FRIDAYS Beer vendors will bring sanity: I disagree with The Bird and agree wholeheartedly with efforts to rid First Fridays of so many street vendors (“Art Crime,” Stephen Lemons, April 3). If you want to go to the art galleries, you have to walk in the middle of Roosevelt…
New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin received the President’s Award from the Valley chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the group’s Freedom of Information Awards banquet Friday, April 4. The award was presented for a story the two penned last fall about unreasonable grand jury subpoenas…
ICEMAN BLOWETH So you’re the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho in town, replacing a rico suave ICE chief by the name of Alonzo Pena, and first thing you do in public is deep-massage your tonsils with your toes. That’s the smooth move the newbie head of AZ ICE, Matthew…
Cliff Young was a good employee. During the first 21 years of Young’s career at the Arizona Department of Transportation, his performance evaluations were great. He never faced so much as a written reprimand from his supervisors. So it was kind of strange to sit in a courtroom last month,…
A Florida doctor lost his license after he was diagnosed as a sex addict — he claimed he could cure his female patients by fondling their breasts. A Utah doctor lost his license after he illegally prescribed drugs over the Internet. A California doctor lost his license after he was…
When you’ve finished exploring D’Andrea’s first-hand account, be sure and take a look at the following.
When you have to roll down the windows because it smells so bad, they call it a Holy Roller.
In a blistering editorial published today, The New York Times blasts Sheriff Joe’s misuse of his 287g agreement with ICE, and demands Congress hold hearings on the agreements, which are currently under investigation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress. (That tidbit about the GAO is…
It’s appropriate that Bill Plympton’s latest is about a murder. He gets away with it all the time.
Russell Pearce By Sarah Fenske We posted previously about State Representative Russell Pearce’s plan to exempt “public officers” from the oversight of the State Bar of Arizona – a pretty appalling idea on its face (See our previous post .) Now here’s a startling new fact. If Pearce’s plan goes…
Cherry Bomb!’s April Pre-Pride party at the Rogue on Thursday, April 3rd.
Robert Ortloff By Paul Rubin After hearing two months of occasionally riveting testimony, the jury in the Robert Ortloff murder case finally will begin its deliberations tomorrow morning. Just got back from the closing arguments, which took up the better part of the day in the courtroom of Judge Warren…
Last week, I wrote about a poll from PHX’s Behavior Research Center, which showed Sheriff Joe’s popularity rating to be 57% excellent or good within Maricopa County. The Scottsdale company American Traffic Solutions commissioned the statistical query from BRC as part of a larger poll about how AZ denizens view…
