Oh, boy. Governor Jan Brewer plans on running into President Obama during his visit to Phoenix on Tuesday — on an airport tarmac.Remember, when Obama came to town early last year, Brewer greeted Obama on the tarmac at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport with a finger right in the president’s face…
Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos announced on Thursday that he is calling it quits in Phoenix. Cavazos, the first Latino to serve as city manager, has brokered a deal to become the next city manager in Santa Ana, a community in Orange County with about 300,000 residents…
Laci Caldwell’s vagina may hold less cargo than Claudia “Home of the One-Pounder” Ibarra’s, but the 25-year-old accused smuggler wins points for creative storytelling. Caldwell was stopped on Monday while walking from Mexico at the San Luis port of entry south of Yuma after agents noticed she “seemed to be…
Senator John McCain certainly has a strong opinion on reports that the Russian government has granted temporary asylum to NSA leaker Edward Snowden.McCain’s trying to bring hatin’ on Russia back in style, issuing a statement that says, in part, “We cannot allow today’s action by Putin to stand without serious…
The clipboard-wielding people are getting a little hard to avoid — whether at your home, or out in public, there always seems to be someone with a clipboard, who wants your signature for something.Right now, there are nine applications with the Secretary of State’s office to gather signatures for initiatives…
Equality Arizona is endorsing efforts to let voters decide whether to keep a recently approved law that makes sweeping changes to the election process. Protect Your Right to Vote, a political committee, is backing the referendum of HB 2305, a law opponents say suppresses voters ability to get on the…
It looks like the feds don’t really trust their “trusted travelers.”U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a Mexican woman in the trunk of a “trusted traveler’s” car while he was trying to re-enter the United States through Nogales…
Today in Found at the Border: Meth is now a fashion statement.U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a duo from southern Arizona wearing a combined total of 10 pounds of meth while trying to cross the border back into the United States on Tuesday…
If you want to cast a ballot for the Phoenix City Council district elections on August 27, you gotta register to vote by July 29. Seats are up for grabs in districts 2, 4, 6, and 8, and only residents living within those districts will be eligible to vote for…
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a liberal-leaning watchdog group, released a report today naming the worst governors in the nation — and not surprisingly, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer made the Top Ten. Good ol’ Brewer isn’t one to disappoint. Although she didn’t rise to level of “ringmaster”…
Today in Found at the Border: Phoenix resident Dora Gutierrez’s butt is not that big.According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, almost three pounds of cocaine were taped to Gutierrez’s booty when she tried to come into the United States through the port of entry in Nogales on Monday…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul “studboi1” Babeu claims he’s not running for Congress in 2014, despite a political consultant’s poll reportedly showing that the embattled sheriff is the top Republican candidate in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District.”I want to make it clear to everyone that I have made a commitment . …
Today in Found at the Border: A Mexican teenager trying to cross the border into the United States this weekend who may have looked a little excited to see border officers just had a lot of meth in his “groin area.”The 16-year-old, whose name wasn’t released by authorities, had a…
Just in time for a round of political debates and candidate forums — including one tonight — an anonymous letter to the Arizona State Bar Association has prompted an investigation of Lawrence Robinson, a candidate in the race for a District 8 seat on the Phoenix City Council. (Chicanos Por…
If you had to pick one word to describe the smugglers who try to sneak drugs and other items over the U.S./Mexico border every day, that word is “creative.”Smugglers take drastic measures to get their product into the United States, while trying to avoid detection by officers at the border…
Today in Found at the Border: No, the southern Arizona teenager recently arrested at the border has not been working out — it was just a bunch of heroin duct-taped to his legs.According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the 17-year-old teenager pictured above, from the border town of San…
In case you haven’t heard about the bill to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage nationwide, don’t worry, Republican Congressman Trent Franks is already on it.Franks, as well as Republican Congressman David Schweikert, are among the 28 Republican congressmen seeking to change the Constitution to declare, “Marriage in…
Today in Found at the border: A 22-year-old U.S. citizen was busted trying to bring $50,000 over the border into Mexico last week, in one of the most brazen cash-smuggling attempts we’ve heard of.According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Rene Becerra-Portillo Jr. wore a McDonald’s uniform as he carried…
Governor Jan Brewer’s fight to keep the partners of gay state employees from getting benefits is a losing battle for the governor, so far.The day after the Supreme Court made its decision to strike down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, the court decided to not review Brewer’s fight…
Today in Found at the Border: A woman was caught trying to smuggle a pound of meth into the United States by hiding the stash in her vagina, according to authorities.A federal complaint says agents noticed part of a broken condom hanging out of 31-year-old Claudia Ibarra’s pants as they…
The federal immigration-reform bill passed the Senate this afternoon, by a vote of 68-32.Obviously, Arizona’s Republican Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, as members of the so-called “Gang of Eight,” voted in favor of the bill…
It has gotten to the point that the public is generally unfazed by Governor Jan Brewer’s monumental struggles with the English language.That includes earlier this week, when Brewer kind of expressed her support for the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, and her press team spent the rest of the day…
