In Aurora, Colorado, last week, jurors headed to the courtroom to hear death-penalty arguments for a man convicted of shooting up a Colorado movie theater in 2012. In Lafayette, Louisiana, 59-year-old John Russell Houser open fire on the audience during a showing of Trainwreck, killing two people and injuring nine…
Last night, in 3,500 locations across the country, about 100,000 people tuned in all at once to watch Bernie Sanders speak, and to learn how they could help volunteer for his 2016 presidential campaign. Hundreds in the greater-Phoenix area spent the night talking politics and strategizing ways to spread, as…
Hundreds of people in the greater-Phoenix area will join tens of thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters across the country tonight to participate in the first official nationwide grassroots organizing meeting for the Sanders presidential campaign. In an event the campaign is calling “unprecedented,” people will gather in homes, coffee shops,…
The Republican Party of Maricopa County is calling on four Democratic Arizona politicians to “return every penny” of the cumulative $45,000 in campaign contributions they received from Planned Parenthood in the last few years, and to “publicly rebuke their fellow Democrats” for asking the Department of Justice to investigate The…
A recent poll found that more Republican voters have a favorable view of presidential candidate Donald Trump than they do of Arizona Senator John McCain. The telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports polled 1,000 people between July 20-21, and revealed that at least 52 percent of likely Republican voters reported…
At 21, Grant Ronnebeck, a bright, friendly young man with an “infectious smile,” was just beginning to map out his life dreams. But, his uncle testified during an emotional U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, because of the country’s lax immigration policies, he won’t ever get to “follow his heart.”…
Anshantia “Tia” Oso, one of the protesters who interrupted a Town Hall event with presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders on Saturday, writes in a in a high-profile column today that she was the “right person” to lead the halting of the program. Oso touts her many activist qualifications…
Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders stood in front of 11,000-plus people in downtown Phoenix Saturday night and talked about the political transformation he believes the country so desperately needs. “I’m the only presidential candidate who will tell you this,” he said to a roaring crowd, “no president, no matter how…
A federal appellate judge accused Arizona of being racist Thursday for attempting to deny driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants covered by President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. “What is the problem?” Judge Harry Pregerson demanded during a tense hearing in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in…
An anti-Islam, pro-freedom of speech rally scheduled for Saturday July 18 outside of the Islamic Center of Tucson has been canceled. Dean Remington, a U.S. military veteran and organizer of the event, announced the news on Facebook last night. “The reasoning behind an immediate cancellation has many fronts, as well…
While we want to know what ice cream Ben and Jerry’s will inevitably name after Bernie Sanders, Sanders wants to know if you, the American voter, are “ready to start a political revolution?” As part of his campaign tour for the Democratic presidential primary, Sanders will stop in Phoenix and…
Not everyone can give a 70-minute political speech about domestic and foreign policy and say very little of substance or value. But Donald Trump, billionaire real estate mogul, managed to do just that in front of a few thousand people this weekend at the downtown Phoenix Convention Center. To a…
Dozens of immigration advocates marched up to the governor’s office Friday to demand he sever support for a multi-state lawsuit challenging a federal program that allows some undocumented immigrants to legally stay in the country. A secretary told the crowd, which included delegates from La Familia Vota, LUCHA, the Arizona…
We live in a time where the left in this country is scoring wins like there’s no tomorrow. From gay marriage to Obamacare to redistricting, conservatives are licking their wounds and looking at the prospect of being denied the White House yet again in 2016 by their Democratic bete noir,…
Prisoner rights advocates are calling on Governor Doug Ducey to order an independent investigation of security practices at a privately run prison in Golden Valley after a three day riot sent 13 people to the hospital. Ducey ordered Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan to look into the incident at…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery has until the end of today to answer a letter he received from the ACLU of Arizona asking why same-sex married couples are not entitled to certain adoption benefits regularly provided to heterosexual couples. The ACLU sent Montgomery a letter earlier this spring on behalf…
I took a lot of raspberries from the left over the profile I did earlier this year of Arizona’s new Republican Attorney General Mark Brnovich. Though, I must admit that I enjoy ticking off liberals who think New Times should mimic their own third-grade comic-book attitude toward politics. You know: Dems…
Four Arizona congressional representatives sent U.S. Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake a letter urging them to introduce an amendment in the 2016 Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill that would demand the FAA address the airplane noise problem disrupting the lives of thousands of Phoenix residents. Congressman…
In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that Arizona’s independent election redistricting commission does not violate the “election clause,” and is therefore constitutional. After a voter initiative to create an independent redistricting commission in Arizona passed in 2000, there has been an ongoing debate about whether the commission…
If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker gets himself elected president next year, he might remember that Arizona Governor Doug Ducey hired one of his friends. It’s possible that the connection between Scott Walker and Sue Black — the new State Parks Department executive director — is a key reason Ducey appointed…
Chances are good you’re still celebrating today’s landmark same-sex marriage ruling and yesterday’s Obamacare victory, but the U.S. Supreme Court still has a few major cases to resolve, including a really important one about redistricting powers that will directly affect Arizona residents by impactin g all of our future elections…
Friday’s guilty plea by Cave Creek resident Karen Finley, ex-CEO of the photo-enforcement company Redflex, has many people wondering: Who, if anyone, did Finley bribe in Arizona? Redflex Traffic Systems, which is based in Phoenix as a subsidiary of Australia’s Redflex Holdings company, has had numerous contracts with Arizona municipalities…
