Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton announced today that a bus strike that has disrupted service throughout the Valley will likely come to a close on Friday. Both sides — the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433, which represents bus drivers in Phoenix and Tempe, and Veolia Transportation, the transit company that employs…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery sent out a gentle reminder yesterday that anyone paid to appear in a porno flick “may be guilty” of prostitution.He’s not saying the County Attorney’s Office is going after the porno industry — or that it isn’t — but with rumors of California-based porno companies…
Hupp goes all Hannibal on the MAS crowd, 6:34 onWhat I like about Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal is his consistency. You know when he opens his mouth, he’s bound to say something stupid. It’s just a matter of how stupid.His latest round of revelatory idiocies — at…
The Arizona Legislature is moving ahead with a bill that aims to take the state’s federal lands and give them to the people of Arizona, despite exactly zero chance such a plan could work.If the nation isn’t laughing at Arizona, state lawmakers obviously wouldn’t be happy.Not content to be the…
Columnist James Fenton called Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu “Republicans’ latest nightmare” in a piece for the London Evening Standard. Fentons’ column hit the presses about a week after New Times reported that Babeu’s Mexican ex-boyfriend lobbed allegations that the sheriff threatened him and that the sheriff’s attorney raised threats…
Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley announced today that he won’t be running for Congress, after all.Stapley, who has seen his share of ups and downs in his 15-year run on the five-member Board of Supervisors, filed paperwork last month to run for Arizona’s newly created Ninth Congressional District.The East Valley…
Wil Cardon has been trailing Congressman Jeff Flake by a consistent near-50 point margin in the GOP Senate primary, and his latest ad can be placed on that campaign mantel next to his poll results.Someone misspelled “Tucson” in the ad that’s hitting TV tomorrow.It’s since been corrected, but we’re hardly…
If you enjoy the pleasures of two-wheeled vehicles like we do, you know why we had goosebumps after hearing about the fatal car-bike collision on Sunday in north Scottsdale.The victim, 53-year-old Shawn McCarty, was doing everything right. He had a helmet on and was riding in a bike lane. It…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s heard the news that several California porn-production companies may be planning to come out to Arizona, partially due to Los Angeles’ new law requiring porn actors to wear condoms.Now, Montgomery’s warning that bare-backing it on camera in Arizona may qualify as prostitution.”Under Arizona law, anyone…
Even as Phil Gordon, former Phoenix mayor, fades into the political background, his one-time gal pal, Elissa Mullany, has injected herself back into the public eye. She wrote a letter to Phoenix taxpayers that appeared in the Arizona Republic on Monday to bring them “up to date on what’s been…
Ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce is actually going to defend Senate Bill 1070 before a US Senate Subcommittee in April.The spokesman for New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer just sent the information over, saying Pearce will answer questions before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration the day before the Supreme…
The political-correctness police over at the Arizona Republic have decided this week’s “Doonesbury” comics won’t be showing up in the dead-tree editions of the paper.The week-long story arc of the comic mocks the abortion laws in Texas, including a woman having a seat in the “shaming room,” meeting with a…
A light flashed during Fox 10’s traffic report last week, and since it’s Arizona, it turned into a nationwide international story.Example headlines: “Mystery surrounds bright light explosion caught on live television in Phoenix” from Fox Los Angeles, “Unexplained ‘Phoenix Lights’ explosion caught live on news broadcast” from Yahoo! News, and…
One step forward and one step back. That’s how one might describe the last two Phoenix Suns games, as Planet Orange got an upset 98-91 win over the Memphis Grizzlies over the weekend and then suffered a 127-124 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves last night. After experiencing the thrill of…
The Arizona Senate is currently considering a bill that would keep all of the existing prescription drug coverage for any medications your doctor prescribes for you, unless it’s contraception.It’s been the law in Arizona since 2003 that prescription contraception is treated just like any other medication for drug-coverage purposes, but…
Joe at the CSPOA. If you don’t want to watch 30 minutes of blather, the highlights are belowThe mutual embrace of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and far right wing extremist groups has been going on for some time now, Arpaio’s ludicrous foray into the conspiranut world of birtherdom being but the…
Two days after the news broke that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, actor Steven Seagal, and others were named in a lawsuit stemming from a raid last year where Arpaio and his boys brought the dog-and-pony show to arrest a single cockfighting suspect, the sheriff’s office tried that one again.This…
The Arizona Senate is currently considering a bill — which has already been passed by the House — that would keep all of the existing prescription drug coverage you’re getting through your employer or health insurance company… if you’re a dude.If you’re a woman, and Jesus or a similar figure…
For nearly two years, Veolia executives have sat across the table from union representatives for Phoenix bus drivers in an attempt to hammer out an employment contract for workers. No deals have been reached, and finally, union officials called for a strike on Friday night. Tempe bus drivers — who…
Police have arrested the seventh person in connection with the murders of Paradise Valley couple Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro or Phoenix man Bruce Gaudet.Maricela Sanchez has been arrested on a warrant for Gaudet’s murder — and related robbery and kidnapping charges — Maricopa County Attorney’s Office spokesman Jerry Cobb confirms…
We recently came across a February 27 segment from Jim Sharpe’s talk show on KFYI about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s time as headmaster at the DeSisto School in Massachusetts — a school for troubled teens where state officials found sexual and physical abuse was occurring. Sharpe and his on-air…
If you’re depending on a bus ride to get somewhere in Phoenix, good luck with that.The Amalgamated Transit Union went on strike this weekend to protest contract issues with Veolia Transportation, the French-based company that’s under a $388 million contract to run the city’s buses.As of 6:45 a.m. today, Veolia…
