Ask a Mexican on the Love for Santana
Do your countrymen still worship the rock band Santana? Or are they looked on as, like the Who in England and Crosby Stills and Nash in America, old relics from the good ol’ Woodstock days?
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Showing 7195 - 7216 of 32701Transit Union “Relieved” Embezzlement Case Is Over; W/UPDATE
An embezzlement case that cost a local labor union more than a quarter-million dollars shows that the organization has a “zero-tolerance” policy for corruption, its officials said. “We’re relieved that the legal process is over and happy that justice has been served,” Bob Bean, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local…
Criminal Enterprise: A Culture of Corruption Pervades Joe Arpaio’s Office, Affecting Everyone in Maricopa County
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers achieved what they set out to do on May 22, when they moved to have federal Judge G. Murray Snow disqualify himself from overseeing the sheriff’s contempt trial. That is, they slowed Snow’s judicial express train to the speed of a three-toed sloth. One day before this…
Parade of Corpses: An American Bicyclist Becomes the Latest Inmate to Be Killed Carelessly in Arpaio’s Jails
Guadalupe Torres held her head in weathered hands. Tears trickled between her fingers. In a world with a God, your children do not die before you. But Guadalupe’s son, Felix, did, in fact, pass over. He was 47. Abuela Guadalupe is that saddest of women. No faithless husband ever inflicted…
Poll: 53 Percent of Arizonans Back Legalizing Marijuana
A new Rocky Mountain Poll finds that 53 percent of Arizonans back legalizing marijuana for adults, with only 39 percent opposed to the idea. The poll also shows that 83 percent of Arizonans now support the type of university research on the potential medicinal effects of marijuana advocated by Dr…
Former Transit Union Official Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement
The former treasurer of the transit union that represents Valley bus and light-rail drivers faces up to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to embezzling $273,000 from the organization. Richard Wayne Johnson served as secretary/treasurer for the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 from April 2005 until he…
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Arizona Group Gathering Support for Tuition-Cap Referendum
A band of concerned community members marching under the moniker “Save Our Students” has filed a ballot measure to cap in-state tuition rates at Arizona universities. The initiative, which the group hopes to put up for vote in 2016, seeks to block the Arizona Board of Regents from increasing tuition…
Phoenix Is Finally Suing the FAA Over Airplane Noise
The city of Phoenix is filing a lawsuit today against the Federal Aviation Administration for unilaterally imposing flight path changes at Sky Harbor International Airport last September without due process. The changes have affected thousands of Valley residents and were made without consulting the city or its aviation department. The…
Bill Montgomery Offers Deal to Hot-Car Mom, Readies Safety Campaign
A Phoenix woman who left her 2-month-old son in a vehicle for 10 minutes while she shopped for groceries has been offered the chance to take a parenting course rather than face felony prosecution. Suhaylah Shamsiddeen, 26, has been offered a “prefile diversion option that entails completing a 26-week Child…
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Neighbors Rally to Help Phoenix Family Rebuild After Fire
Friends and neighbors of a Phoenix family whose home burned down last week are rallying to raise money to feed and clothe them. Alex Maples, his girlfriend, and their three children, ages 3, 4, and 9, have been staying with his twin sister and her family since they narrowly escaped their…
Armed Rednecks Threaten Phoenix Mosque (Video)
As I watched a live feed of the roiling ugliness outside the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix on Friday, I kept thinking of “Gimme Shelter” by the Rolling Stones, and that chilling refrain, sung by legendary backup singer Merry Clayton: “War, children, it’s just a shot away.” Indeed, with a…
U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Save Arizona Law Denying Bail for Undocumented
The U.S. Supreme Court decided today that it won’t review a decision striking down Arizona’s voter-approved, 2006 law denying bail for certain undocumented-immigrant crime suspects. Passed by a bipartisan wave of voters riding an anti-immigrant sentiment in the mid-2000s, the law was also a favorite of Maricopa County conservatives including former…
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VA Leadership Must Resign, Says Phoenix Whistleblower
Local VA whistleblower Jared Kinnaman is demanding that U.S. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Robert McDonald and Glen Grippen, interim director of the Phoenix VA Medical Center, resign from their leadership positions. Kinnaman sent them personalized letters late last week, describing the Phoenix VA system as “a very volatile and grossly…
Former Mesa Officer Wins False-Arrest Lawsuit but No Money
Retired Mesa police union president Javier Fabian Cota won a partial victory this week in his civil-rights lawsuit against San Diego police, but so far no monetary award or reimbursement of his many expenses. The flap began about 3 a.m. on June 4, 2011, while Cota was in downtown San…
Will Kicking 1,600 Off Welfare Inspire Arizona’s Poor to Get Jobs?
Arizona legislators are framing their recent determination to impose a 12-month lifetime cap on welfare benefits and cut off assistance to some 1,600 families as a way to motivate the poor to take care of themselves. “I tell my kids all the time that the decisions we make have rewards…
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Police Investigate Suspicious Package at Phoenix New Times
A suspicious package left at the Phoenix New Times’ parking lot in downtown Phoenix on Friday morning contained a letter referring to a recent cover article about an emotionally-disturbed teenager accused in a homicide case, police said. After a New Times employee found a large cardboard box in the lot at…
Hundreds Attend Phoenix Mosque Protest
As helicopters circled overhead and police officers stood guard, the seven-plus-hour “Rally for Free Speech” protest outside of the north Phoenix Islamic Community Center on Friday remained relatively uneventful. No arrests were made, no guns were fired, and though a few fights almost broke out along the edges of the event —…
Phoenix Family Tied to Iraq’s Badr Corps Being Booted From Country
Four Phoenix family members with former ties to Iraq’s Badr Corps were stripped of their naturalized citizenship status this month and have agreed to leave the United States in August. New Times reported on the family’s arrest in February. Hadi Assi Mubarak, wife Wahida Juma Odah and their two adult sons,…
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College Hockey Player Max Gardiner Arrested After Alleged Trespass
Star college hockey player Max Gardiner was arrested in Scottsdale early Thursday morning after a woman found him drunk in her backyard. Gardiner, 23, a Penn State player who’s also a draft pick of the NHL’s St. Louis Blues, was booked for alleged trespassing and released a few hours later…
Anti-Islam, Free Speech Rally to Be Held at Islamic Community Center This Friday
On Friday evening, a group of self-proclaimed “patriots” will demonstrate outside of the Islamic Community Center in north Phoenix to “protect [their] Constitutional rights to freedom of speech.” According to the event’s Facebook page, the rally “is in response to the recent attack in Texas where 2 armed terrorist, with ties…
Patients Can’t Sell Medical Pot, Appeals Court Rules
In an opinion that impacts several criminal cases around the state, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that authorized medical-marijuana patients cannot sell cannabis to other patients. The 3-0 ruling by the state’s Division Two appeals court overturns a decision made last July by Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard…
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Arizona Board of Regents Fabricated Number for Immigrant Proposal
A proposed tuition rate for undocumented immigrants that the Arizona Board of Regents will vote on next week was created by guesswork, New Times has learned. At a public meeting last month, the board proposed the new tuition rate of 150 percent of in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants who qualify…