Tea party activists are celebrating as one of their own successfully got a book banned from a southern Arizona school district.Debbie Stoner, a tea party organizer in the small community of Palominas, near Sierra Vista, alleged that her son, a sophomore at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, was told…
The national Marijuana Policy Project, bolstered by federal approval of state pot-freedom laws, plans to put a Colorado-style legalization initiative on Arizona’s ballot for 2016. It’s part of a master plan to pass similar legalization laws in 10 states by 2017. “We’re feeling very good about what we can accomplish,”…
Opponents to Arizona’s House Bill 2305, a Republican-supported omnibus elections law, turned more than enough signatures to block the bill from taking effect until voters can decide on it next year.The Protect Your Right to Vote Committee says it delivered approximately 146,000 signatures to the Secretary of State yesterday, and…
Arizona must make the federal voter-registration form just as available to voters as a state registration form which requires proof of citizenship, a judge ruled today. The “final judgment” by Arizona Senior U.S. District Court Judge Roslyn Silver follows up on June’s U.S. Supreme Court order which struck down the…
Today in Found at the Border: Officers at the U.S./Mexico border busted one of the more unusual border-crossing attempts in recent memory yesterday.According to Customs and Border Protection, a 35-year-old Mexican man jumped into a large shipment of chili peppers, and went-face down into the peppers in his attempt to…
The last time Laura Pastor ran for a seat on the Phoenix City Council, Reverend Jarrett Maupin tossed his support at her opponent. The local civil rights activist isn’t making that mistake again. He’s endorsed Laura Pastor for the District 4 seat on the Phoenix City Council, citing her deep…
Mayor Greg Stanton and Councilman Bill Gates released a statement — just before the Phoenix City Council considered the appointment of an Interim City Manager — pledging not to approve a contract that would permit the next city manager to engage in pension spiking. That is, the two said they…
Kate Gallego’s impressive performance in the August race for a seat representing Phoenix’s Eighth District has earned her an endorsement from Equality Arizona. Gallego nearly won the race outright with 47 percent, but was just shy of the 50-percent-plus-one threshold needed to avoid the November 5 runoff election. Pastor Warren…
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton announced on Tuesday that he’s endorsing Laura Pastor, a candidate in the District 4 City Council race. “As a former classroom teacher and a lifelong educator, Laura Pastor is exactly the voice we need on the Phoenix City Council,” Mayor Stanton said in a news release…
A lot of people seem to be concerned that Senator John McCain was playing games on his iPhone during a Senate committee hearing on the Syria situation.McCain is not one of those people who seems very concerned…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s comrades in his sham “investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate ought to be committed to a mental-health institution.Why? Consider the “prime suspect” for faking Obama’s birth certificate, according to one of the birthers in on Arpaio’s gag — Phoenix New Times…
Phoenix officials approved on Wednesday a loan of up to $2.5 million that will help transform Travel Inn Apartments into 90 studio apartments for homeless and low-income individuals. Part of the loan agreement ensures that 38 of those remain earmarked as affordable rental units for at least 40 years. The…
The remaining ballots cast in the Phoenix council election have been tallied, and it’s unofficially official — District 4 candidates Justin Johnson and Laura Pastor, and District 8 candidates Kate Gallego and Warren Stewart will face-off in a November 5 election. (The vote counts don’t become official until the City…
Galdino Sierra, a California sex offender whose family was gunned down in Mexico by rival factions of his Indian tribe, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for returning illegally to the United States. Tucson lawyer Roger Sigal says that Sierra, 26, a Chatino from the state of Oaxaca,…
More than a year ago, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced his team had developed “probable cause” to believe President Obama’s birth certificate was a forgery.Most people just laughed their rear-ends off and got on with their lives. Others, however, have spent a considerable amount of time proving that every allegation –…
Phoenix voters returned Councilman Sal DiCiccio and Councilman Jim Waring to the Phoenix City Council, and appear to have narrowed the crowded field in District 6 and District 8. City election officials posted unofficial results at phoenix.gov, and note that those figures include early ballots, and that counts will be…
We can finally say we’ve been featured in “The Dirty.” And we’re not even embarrassed. Nik Richie, the gossip site’s operator, gave New Times a shout-out Tuesday for our walk down memory lane of some of his best news scoops, mentioned a few we missed, and announced he’s working on…
On a deserted stretch of Interstate 8, “Minuteman” Richard Malley and two buddies hunt for illegal immigrants. Back in Phoenix, at 13 Danny’s Family Car Wash locations across the Valley, Obama’s modern-day INS, some dressed in ski masks and toting assault rifles, are basically the same thing. At least, they…
Scottsdale-based Go Daddy wouldn’t be the world’s largest seller of Internet domain names — by far — without its stable of scantily clad sex kittens. Now that Christine Jones, former general counsel for the company, is running for governor, we can’t help wondering how she’d look in some of the…
Former Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman and Republican operative Jason Rose go way back in political circles. Hallman has long relied on Rose for political navigation, including hiring Rose to help him with his 2008 Tempe mayor’s race. And that’s why the tweet above caught our attention — Rose ranking Christine…
Andrew Thomas finally has found the perfect home for his quasi-intellectual, right-wing screeds: The pro-national-sovereignty Selous Foundation. This little-known, Washington-based think-tank, founded by a former Marine turned mercenary/pundit, operates from a hippie-ish office on Pennsylvania Avenue above a wig shop and sandwiched between a bar and a liquor store…
The legislature’s not in session at the moment, but that apparently doesn’t mean the nutty legislators go back to normal during this off-season.Take Republican Representative Bob Thorpe, who seems very concerned about issues involving black people in this country — and not in a good way…
