During the holiday season, hundreds of people go to the Human Services Campus in downtown Phoenix to pass out food to the homeless. Turns out, this doesn’t necessarily help them.
California AG Kamala Harris is at it again, filing pimping and money laundering charges against the current and former owners of Backpage, despite a judge’s dismissal of similar charges just two weeks ago.
A program that allowed fired Arizona Department of Economic Security employees to appeal to get their jobs back has ended, with officials deciding that DES handled most of the terminations correctly. Last month, Governor Doug Ducey fired the businessman he appointed nearly two years ago to lead DES, Tim Jeffries,…
Restrictions on wood-burning fireplaces in Maricopa County have snuffed out yule logs each Christmas for most of this decade. Will this year be any different? Lucette Ramirez says people at the county’s Air Quality Division are on “pins and needles” waiting to find out, but no decisions have been made…
A new survey says that Democrats overwhelmingly prefer “Happy Holidays” for their Yuletide greeting, while Republicans overwhelmingly insist on “Merry Christmas.” Also, Ds are more likely to block someone on social media because of political differences.
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery vowed this week to continue trying to derail medical marijuana in Arizona in spite of another significant and expensive loss in court. On Wednesday, the same day the Arizona Court of Appeals released its ruling against Montgomery, the county, and the state of Arizona, Montgomery…
Paul Penzone, sheriff-elect of Maricopa County, revealed plans on December 20 for replacing the top leadership of the sheriff’s office with his own team.
President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed policies and nominees for government posts means that here in Arizona, there is a real danger to the social-programs that protect and sustain some of our state’s most vulnerable residents.
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake and Dianne Feinstein are co-sponsoring legislation that would prevent child molesters from cross-examining their child victims; it’s inspired by the events of the trial of Chris Simcox.
The Pinal County Board of Supervisors will hold a meeting next month to consider raising taxes to fund a multimillion-dollar purchase of land for would-be electric-car maker Lucid Motors. The estimated financing cost for the land is $73.4 million: $31.8 million in principal, plus $41.6 million in interest. But Pinal…
Imagine for a moment if, instead of a certain billionaire we all know, Hillary Clinton had 306 Electoral College votes pledged to her nationwide, and, locally, 11 Democratic electors were set to meet at the Arizona Capitol on Monday, December 19, to cast their votes, just as electors in all other…
A coalition of more than 30 major outdoor companies are asking President Barack Obama to designate the Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument before he leaves office.
Coming off a big loss in Arizona’s First Congressional District, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu will soon lose the right to wear that spiffy uniform he dons for Fox News, and it looks like Team Trump ain’t callin’. No wonder he just sold his house in Casa Grande.
The Arizona Governor’s Office of Youth, Faith and Family is admonishing police and prosecutors around the state to rethink their support of Start by Believing, a nonprofit initiative aimed at removing obstacles to the reporting of sexual violence.
The vast majority of Arizona’s eligible children are not enrolled in the federally funded Head Start program that offers early education primarily to children from low-income families.
Child advocates worry that the progress Arizona has made to provide health insurance to children from low-income families could be undone when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
More than two years after Arizona State University’s former police chief took the helm of a new program that promised to increase the use of video cameras on campus, it’s unclear how much expansion has occurred — if any. The lack of video security around ASU’s Tempe campus was exposed…
If you think there’s a certain strain that helps you keep it up or keep it going, then buy up as much as you can.
Nearly two years after Phoenix shut down two temporary facilities, the debate about whether the city needs a permanent low-demand homeless shelter remains unresolved.
Two Arizona immigrant-advocacy groups are urging the immediate dismantling of militaristic border-enforcement infrastructure and personnel in order to stop the running tragedy of migrant deaths in the desert. No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos reach that controversial conclusion in a report released this past week, “Disappeared: How the…
On December 9, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Michael Bowman issued his final ruling on the Backpage prosecution of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, and Carl Ferrer, CEO of Backpage, on pimping charges.
The Sierra Club’s Sandy Bahr talks with New Times about what impact Scott Pruitt, Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, could have on the environment in Arizona.
