A Mexican national discovered on Tuesday that a bunch of bell peppers won’t conceal more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana from the authorities.U.S. Customs and Border Protection made the find while the man was attempting to enter the United States through a commercial facility in Nogales with the load in…
Phoenix voters overwhelmingly approved a proposal to reform the city’s pension plan — a plan city officials say will save taxpayers about $600 million over the next 23 years. According to unofficial results, 71,086 voters, or 79.54 percent, said yes to Proposition 201, compared to 18,284 voters, or 20.46 percent,…
Republican state Representative Doris Goodale “can’t explain” her opposition to the bill that was proposed to disband the “Marshal’s Office” in the polygamist town of Colorado City, the bill’s sponsor tells New Times.Despite county, state, and federal authorities claiming misconduct in the police force there, Goodale continues to defend it,…
For the second straight year, Republican Representative Doris Goodale strongly opposed legislation that would disband the “Marshal’s Office” in the polygamist town of Colorado City, which is in her district.Despite county, state, and federal authorities claiming misconduct in the police force there, Goodale continues to defend it, and she’s refused…
Governor Jan Brewer, the chief executive of the Colt Single Action Army Revolver State™, will be spending her Wednesday morning speaking at the dedication of the sacred ground known as the Tri-State Shooting Park.Somehow, folks in Bullhead City have survived 13 years without a public shooting range, and the Arizona…
A neutered version of the bill that would have gotten rid of the corrupt cops in Colorado City passed the House yesterday.House Bill 2648 was approved by the House with a 52-7 vote, after one of the primary purposes — disbanding the “Marshal’s Office” in the polygamist town of Colorado…
As Governor Jan Brewer says about the feds, “This is just another . . . (pause) . . . notch in their . . . (pause) . . . belt bucket, if you will.”See also:-Jan Brewer Blunders that Feds’ National Release of Illegal Immigrants Is Payback, Punishment for Arizona…
Former Democratic state Representative Daniel Patterson, who resigned from the House last year before a vote on his expulsion could take place, already is talking about getting back into office.Patterson’s not talking about a 2014 run but rather filling a potential vacancy in the near future.See also:-Daniel Patterson Calls it…
Senator John McCain’s still calling for President Obama to pardon former boxing great Jack Johnson, who died almost 67 years ago.McCain and New York Congressman Peter King have tried several times to get Johnson, who was black, pardoned for a 1913 conviction he earned after being prosecuted under the Mann…
An anonymous donor has pledged $100,000 to Arizonans for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization, to host in May a gun buyback in Phoenix and destroy the firearms. The Mayor’s Office and the Phoenix Police Department are working with a nonprofit agency to take guns out of circulation. “I think this…
Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick seems to be concerned about the possibility of “devastating sequestration cuts.”She also seems concerned about the fact that she’s gonna need some cash for the 2014 election, so if you could create and equal concern for the sequester and the re-election effort, then you’ll have your…
According to most of the people running law-enforcement agencies along the U.S./Mexico border, so-called “spillover” violence from Mexico isn’t really happening.Some grandstanding politicians would swear otherwise, but a Government Accountability Office report says officials from 31 of 37 state and local law-enforcement agencies on the border “stated that they have…
After hours of debate, the Phoenix City Council voted 5 to 3 to approve a measure that expands the city’s anti-discrimination measure to include members of the LGBT and disabled community. Councilmen Sal DiCiccio, Jim Waring and Bill Gates voted against the hotly contested measure…
Testimony for and against a measure to protect members of the LGBT and disabled communities has been going on for more than two hours. An audience packed with members of the LGBT community, religious leaders, Phoenix residents, and business owners are trying with both logical and emotional pleas to persuade…
Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio is trying to rally his ultra-right-wing conservative troops to oppose a policy proposal that aims protect individuals from discrimination because of their “sexual orientation,” “gender identity or expression,” and “disability.” DiCiccio calls the proposal a “radical left turn for Phoenix.” He attacks Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton…
Democrat Felecia Rotellini, 2010’s Attorney General election runnerup, announced that she’s making another run for the AG post in 2014.Also, we’ve found out what 2012 U.S. Senate election runnerup Richard Carmona’s up to — being the chairman of Rotellini’s campaign.See also:-Terry Goddard Wants to Be AG Again? Puh-lease-Arizona AG Tom…
According to Arizona’s most powerful homophobic organization, Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is trying to let men “gain access” to little girls in bathrooms.Yes, the Center for Arizona Policy — which claims pornography “has been linked” to rapes, child molestations, and serial killers and claims “homosexual activists” are “attempting to indoctrinate…
Unless someone’s familiar with a Nogales-area establishment that sells chicken and meth in the same bucket, we’ll have to rely on U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s claim that it busted a smuggling attempt.Yes, the preferred method of smuggling in this attempt apparently was to hide multiple pounds of meth inside…
If you have an e-mail account, it’s highly likely you’ve received a nonsense, political chain e-mail — you know, FW:FW:FW: Barack Hussein Obama II has signed more secret orders than any dictator in human history, even George Soros!Based on the video footage of Senator John McCain’s town hall meeting on…
The anti-immigration-reform crowd’s broken record is currently playing in the offices of Republican Congressmen Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, Paul Gosar, and David Schweikert.The congressmen, like Governor Jan Brewer, insist that they can only even fathom immigration reform proposals if the border is secure. Still, no one’s able to provide a…
Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has been in Congress for a little more than six weeks now, but libertarian-minded attorney Marc Victor is already planning to defeat her in 2014.We’ve heard from his campaign that Victor, who ran as the Libertarian option against Richard Carmona and then-Congressman Jeff Flake in the…
A bill that would disband the police force in Colorado City is back again this legislative session.For whatever reasons, legislators ended up killing almost the same exact bill last session, and the allegedly corrupt “marshals” on the Utah/Arizona border — whom Attorney General Tom Horne contends are still loyal to…
