Although the estimated number of unauthorized immigrants into the United States dropped off after 2007, researchers think that number may be on the rise again.After estimating a peak of 12.2 million unauthorized immigrants in the country in 2007, the Pew Research Center estimated that number dropped to 11.3 million by…
Just in case talk of military action against one country wasn’t enough, Republican Congressman Trent Franks is here with more loose talk of war.Franks announced that he plans to introduce a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Iran…
Kate Widland Gallego’s campaign manager, Lisa Fernandez, tells New Times that the political-attack fliers circulating in the district are “despicable.” The bright yellow fliers blast Widland Gallego, a candidate for the Phoenix City Council District 8 seat, for taking a $100 campaign contribution from Brian Murray, a consultant with Summit…
A couple of campaign fliers circulating around District 8 slam Kate Widland Gallego for her ties to Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political allies — and apparently for not being a minority. One of the bright yellow fliers, tucked on doors of homes throughout the district, call the council candidate a…
Chad Campbell, the state House Minority Leader, has decided that he’s not running for governor in 2014.Unless someone else with the ability to raise some money decides to get in the race, it looks like Fred DuVal is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2014…
Former Phoenix homicide detective Armando Saldate might be the only reason Debra Milke was on death row for more than two decades for killing her son — a conviction that has since been overturned by a federal appeals court.Upon hearing that Saldate was planning to refuse testifying in Milke’s retrial,…
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…
