College valedictorians tend to have job offers and paid internships lined up long before graduation. But not Angelica Hernandez, the Distinguished Graduating Senior in Mechanical Engineering at Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Hernandez graduates from ASU today with much hope and little opportunity. She is undocumented…
eft-leaning Public Policy Polling released results yesterday of a poll showing that — assuming Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords doesn’t run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is the overwhelming favorite amongst Arizona Democrats.Seriously? Terry Goddard is the best candidate Arizona Democrats can…
As first reported by New Times, there are rumors that the Tea Party’s number-one ding-bat, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, is considering a run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — and according to a recently released poll, if she does run, there’s a pretty good…
Assuming Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords doesn’t miraculously run for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl, former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard is the most popular among any other potential Democratic candidates, according to a recent poll conducted by left-leaning Public Policy Polling.What does this tell us? Arizona’s got weak-ass…
By now, you’ve probably heard that Governor Jan Brewer is having someone write writing her memoirs to be released by Harper Collins this fall. What you probably haven’t heard is that she’s having someone who did “important work” on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s book help out.The book is titled…
Arizona Legislative District 11 Republicans hosted a mayoral forum last night, and former Councilman Greg Stanton didn’t get an invite.Former Councilwoman Peggy Neely, Phoenix lobbyist Wes Gullet, and the newest candidate in the race for Phoenix mayor, attorney Jennifer Wright, showed up to share their Republican philosophies with the Republican…
Illinois Senator Richard Durbin will re-introduce the DREAM Act later this morning. Durbin’s move is the second step in the Democratic Party’s kabuki courtship of Latino voters ahead of the 2012 elections, which began with Barack Obama’s bogus immigration speech yesterday. The DREAM Act, if passed, would allow undocumented youth…
White House Obama was all hat, no cattle in Texas this afternoon. Barack Obama delivered a speech on immigration this afternoon in Texas, focusing on what comprehensive immigration reform must look like if it ever passes. Then, as if aiming to prove the entire address a charade, Obama called on…
stwnewspress.com Almost-mayor and still-convict Christopher LinderWe’re not sure which bit of news is worse for the townspeople of Pawnee, Oklahoma — the fact that the state of Arizona effectively banned their newly elected mayor from taking office or that voters there picked a marijuana-transporting, drive-by-shooting convict as their mayor in the first…
Governor Jan Brewer announced yesterday that she and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne plan to ask the Supreme Court to lift an injunction that has prevented several parts of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, from taking effect.Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to reverse a federal…
Michael Salman can’t seem to beat City Hall, and now hopes to be elected to it. The Phoenix pastor has been fighting the city of Phoenix for three years over the right to hold worship services under a backyard structure he and his parishioners built. His home has been raided twice…
Councilman Claude Mattox called out two of his opponents in the Phoenix mayor’s race for “quitting” the City Council before the end of their terms.Former Councilwoman Peggy Neely resigned her District 2 seat in April to run for mayor — as required by Arizona’s resign-to-run law. Former Councilman Greg Stanton…
Add another name to the list of Phoenix politicos who want to run the town: Jennifer Wright.Wright, a Phoenix attorney and longtime member of the Tea Party, joins Lobbyists Wes Gullett, Councilman Claude Mattox, Libertarian Thane Eichenauer, and former Phoenix City Council members Peggy Neely and Greg Stanton.Wright plans to…
Governor Jan Brewer announced this morning that she and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne plan to ask the Supreme Court to lift an injunction that has prevented several parts of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, from taking effect — and that’s just fine with Arizona’s Democratic Party.”We agree…
Salon Memo to legislators: son niños. They’re children. The Department of Justice mailed out a gentle reminder to school districts across the country over the weekend advising that undocumented students are, in fact, entitled to attend primary and secondary schools in America without getting hassled. It comes in the…
AT&T has turned to federal court to make Phoenix approve a cell-phone tower that the company says is needed to fix a dead-air zone on the Piestewa Freeway. A complaint filed by the company last week in U.S. District Court claims that Phoenix’s Board of Adjustment erred by denying a use permit for the planned…
For nearly a year, Phoenix city-bus drivers have been going to work without an official contract with Veolia Transportation, the French company awarded a $385 million contract to operate those buses. The drivers’ contract expired on June 30, 2010, and while there have been a few contract extensions, the on…
The Phoenix City Council appointed Bryan Jeffries today as an interim representative for District 2. He fills the seat left vacant by Councilwoman Peggy Neely, who resigned to run for mayor.Jeffries was one of four candidates vying for the interim appointment, and has indicated that he does plan to run…
A group of doctors in town for their annual meeting held a press conference in front of the Arizona statehouse today to declare their opposition to anti-immigration legislation, particularly proposed bills mandating doctors ask their patients for immigration papers. New York Doctor Christina Gonzalez emceed the event, declaring the group…
DeeDee Blase, Arizona’s Republican immigration activist, has a message for the Tea Party: “Move aside, the Tequila Party is here,” she said at an afternoon press conference. The Tequila Party is a non-partisan voter-registration outfit designed to increase Latino political participation across the country. Blase announced at today’s event that…
While Governor Jan Brewer is pretty sure she can run for a third term (which she can’t), her camp is already cooking up some wild explanations to let it happen.Brewer’s spokesman Matthew Benson tells New Times that folks inside the governor’s office believe that the law stopping her from running…
Governor Jan Brewer is trying to weasel her way into a third term as governor by calling the Arizona term-limit law “ambiguous.”Brewer is convinced that she can legally be governor for another term, even though the Arizona Constitution says she cannot.The governor seems to think that since she took over…
