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…
Congressman Ruben Gallego stood in front of a packed audience Monday night and told the crowd of Phoenix residents that the extent to which he can help force the FAA to reconsider the changes it made to Sky Harbor’s flight paths last fall “is now limited.” “What we need now…
Jamie Votaw, the co-owner of a cleaning company that hired undocumented immigrants in the 2000s, was sentenced last week in federal court to five years’ probation and ordered to pay $250,000 in restitution. Court records show that her husband, Joel Votaw, the company’s CEO, was equally culpable for the crime. But…
An anti-Islam, freedom-of-speech rally will take place outside of the Tucson Islamic Center on Saturday, July 18. The event is modeled after a protest at Phoenix Islamic Culture Center on May 29, which was purportedly a reaction to the two men who opened fire on a Muhammed cartoon drawing contest in…
Leaders from several Arizona immigrant-rights groups bought a strawberry-topped chocolate cake this week to celebrate the three-year anniversary of President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. But they didn’t cut it and nobody had a bite. The gesture, Raquel Teran, state director of Mi Familia Vota, announced at a…
Kristen Keogh, former Fox 10 News reporter and Arizona Coyotes cheerleader, was one of new state Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s more, um, interesting, hires. Brnovich, a Republican with a quirky history and personality, (as covered by fellow New Times writer Stephen Lemons in a February feature article), chose Keogh as…
Immigrants caught crossing the Mexican border into Arizona are thrown in cold, concrete cells for days at a time, denied medical care and subjected to inhumane conditions, a new lawsuit states. The American Immigration Council, the National Immigration Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and other groups…
The U.S. Supreme Court decided today that it won’t review a decision striking down Arizona’s voter-approved, 2006 law denying bail for certain undocumented-immigrant crime suspects. Passed by a bipartisan wave of voters riding an anti-immigrant sentiment in the mid-2000s, the law was also a favorite of Maricopa County conservatives including former…
As helicopters circled overhead and police officers stood guard, the seven-plus-hour “Rally for Free Speech” protest outside of the north Phoenix Islamic Community Center on Friday remained relatively uneventful. No arrests were made, no guns were fired, and though a few fights almost broke out along the edges of the event —…
Four Phoenix family members with former ties to Iraq’s Badr Corps were stripped of their naturalized citizenship status this month and have agreed to leave the United States in August. New Times reported on the family’s arrest in February. Hadi Assi Mubarak, wife Wahida Juma Odah and their two adult sons,…
