What’s better than dressing like a leprechaun, using your (terrible) Irish accent, and drinking Guinness, green beer, or Jameson with your friends on St. Patrick’s Day? Not getting busted for drunk driving, that’s what! But jokes aside, Arizona, in the age of Uber and Lyft, there’s no excuse for being…
Jane Sanders, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, dropped by Maricopa County’s infamous Tent City Jail on Monday with lots of questions. But even though Sheriff Joe Arpaio himself came down to run the tour (he wouldn’t miss an opportunity to parade in front of TV cameras), the only…
The big-time political news just keeps coming, folks! Earlier today we learned Republican front runner Donald Trump is coming to Arizona again, and New Times can now report that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is also coming back. Sanders will hold a large rally tomorrow night in Phoenix. According to…
Get ready, Arizona: Donald Trump is coming baaaack! The Republican front running is planning another large rally ahead of next Tuesday’s presidential preference vote, the Arizona Republic is reporting — the event is tentatively scheduled for this Saturday, though no time or location has been secured yet. Arizona has received quite…
Ryan Miller was a strong math student in high school. So when it came time to pick electives for his economics degree at Arizona State University, he felt pretty confident signing up for physics. It was hard. He got a bad grade. He wishes someone had warned him. So he,…
The scamsters behind a sophisticated solar-power fraud scheme exposed by Phoenix New Times finally have been held accountable in a U.S. court. Last month, Arizona U.S. District Judge David Bury handed down a $3.1 million judgment against the men behind Matinee Energy — a group of swindlers who include a former…
A Cave Creek horse-rescue organization is drowning in adoption applications after a Facebook post soliciting homes for 20 adorably fluffy miniature donkeys was shared more than 86,000 times. In response to the high interest, Michele Schafer, community outreach director for the all-volunteer-run Triple R Horse Rescue, said the group agreed…
Free tampons, menstrual pads, and condoms in university restrooms — and free testing for sexually transmitted diseases. Faculty race quotas in place by 2020. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, in new funding for building renovations, access to free computers, paid tutors, reduced-price or free healthy food, and…
Latinos, blacks, Native American, and other minority students still struggle to achieve academic success in Arizona, a situation that limits their future work potential, a new state report shows. White students are doing better, but also face problems in a state with a below-average median income, higher-than-average poverty rate, and…
Hours after a video of Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski making homophobic remarks exploded on the Internet, the LGBTQ community of Phoenix publicly called on the councilman to resign. In the video, which was captured on a cell phone last month, Nowakowski can be heard telling a room of clergy: “I…
Donald Trump is well on his way to beating Ted Cruz and the three other remaining presidential candidates for Arizona’s Republican preference election, a new poll shows. The survey of 751 “high efficacy primary Republican voters” in Arizona conducted on Tuesday by MBQF, a public affairs firm, showed that nearly…
Former Olympic figure skater and huge Hillary Clinton supporter, Michelle Kwan, stopped in Phoenix this week to help launch a local chapter of Arizona Asian American and Pacific Islanders for Hillary. Kwan says she first got to know Clinton a few years ago while working as a diplomatic envoy for…
Blatant housing discrimination is alive and well in Yuma, Arizona, according to a federal complaint filed this week by the Southwest Fair Housing Council. The SWFHC accuses a Yuma apartment-building owner of shunning Hispanics by having a representative claim falsely that there were no rooms available, and that rent was…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office released gritty body-camera footage showing a deputy shooting and killing a dog. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who’s made public-relations hay over the years with his animal-protection antics, told reporters that the video proves the shooting was “justified.” The dog was “in the wrong place at the wrong…
The people of Scottsdale are the hardest working in Arizona and the sixth-hardest working in the United States, according to a new report. To calculate the ranking, the data crunchers at Wallethub analyzed the average number of hours worked per week, the labor force participation rate, and average leisure time per…
Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski was caught on camera making what clearly sounds like anti-gay marriage and anti-transgender remarks while giving a speech about why he believes it was wrong for the city to get rid of public prayer during council meetings. “I never thought that this would happen at…
So you’re “feeling the Bern”? Now, thanks to a new dating website that connects fans of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, you can also find love. Arizona State University political science major Colten Caudle created the website, called Berniesingles.com, to make sure, he writes, “the 1% aren’t the only ones getting…
The four men stood at the mouth of the downtown drainage tunnel in Nogales, on the wrong side of the U.S.-Mexico border. It was just before dawn on January 30, 2015, and a recent storm had unleashed a torrent of choking flood water that roared in the darkness. On these…
Faith leaders from a range of religious backgrounds banded together to condemn several bills moving through the Arizona Legislature that they say promote discrimination against immigrants and refugees. One proposed law is House Bill 2370, which would allow the state to refuse to help refugees if it can’t ensure they…
A New Times reporter must have been bribed to do extensive reporting on a marijuana-legalization initiative expected to be on the Arizona ballot in November, a pot advocate claims falsely in a trash-talking YouTube video. It’s another example of the nasty fight between legalization supporters over two competing initiatives that may grow…
The Arizona Senate Federalism and States’ Rights Committee voted unanimously today to move forward a proposal to make it illegal to take, harass, kill, or otherwise interfere with a herd of horses that runs free along the Salt River. House Bill 2340, which has already passed in the House of…
In Latino neighborhoods, eloteros are about as popular as the ice cream man. They ride around in bikes selling corn on the cob covered in mayonnaise, cotija cheese, lime, salt, and chili powder. The blast of their bugle bicycle horns are the eloteros’ iconic call to customers. “They’ve definitely become…
