Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Trial: Is He Guilty of Spawning President Donald Trump?
Of course not, at least in a biological sense. But what else is there new to talk about as Sheriff Joe finally goes on trial today?
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Update to ‘Dear John’ Letter: Now McCain Halts Graham-Cassidy Health Care Bill
Okay, we can all agree that Obamacare wasn’t perfect, but what’s the rush? Get it right this time.
Downtown Phoenix Isn’t as Dead as Janet Leigh: Five Ways to Bring It Back to Life
By the time I arrived here in 2013, Psycho’s Janet Leigh was dead and so, it seeemed, was downtown Phoenix.
Stuart Warner: I’ll Have It My Way — The Value of the Dining-Out Experience
Whether at a restaurant or bar, the worth of the meal is so much more than the quality of the food and drink
Lemons: Dropping the Mic, Heading South, and Some Parting Shots
Stephen Lemons, columnist for the Phoenix New Times, bids farewell to friends and enemies.
Lemons: Backpage Founders Donated to Powerless Democrats; That’s a Story?
Critics of the listings’ behemoth Backpage.com pull out the long knives for its erstwhile owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin.
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Lemons: Lefties with Guns Ready to Rumble with Right-Wing Militias, Says Arizona Anarchist
Phoenix anarchist Beth Payne says the left-wing John Brown Gun Club will not fire the first shot against right-wing militias.
Lemons: Arizona Militia Member Hearts Hitler Quote, SS Tattoo, Augusto Pinochet and Short Helicopter Rides
A member of the Arizona Liberty Guard has Nazi symbolism on his Facebook page, though he insists that he is not a neo-Nazi.
Lemons: DCS Director’s Memo Allows Orwellian Interrogations
Department of Child Safety Director Greg McKay is true to his cop roots with a memo okaying secret recordings and lie-detection software.
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Lemons: Trump Rally Leads to Facebook Spat as Kelli Ward Disses Trans Latina
Perennial candidate for office Kelli Ward gets excluded from the March4Trump rally, crashes it anyway, then keeps talking on Facebook. Armed militia at March4Trump identified by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Lemons: Arizona’s March4Trump Rally Features Nativist Bikers, Anonymous Militiamen and at Least One Trans Latina
Nativists, bikers, militiamen, Trumpkins and alt-righters, oh, my!
UPDATE: Arizona Senate Passes Bill to Stifle Protests; Based on Berkeley Riot Over ‘Dangerous Faggot Tour’
State Senator Sonny Borrelli’s SB 1142 would equate protesting with organized crime, and he believes Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez would approve.
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A Mom’s Open Letter to U.S. Senators: Read Sophie’s Story Before Voting for Betsy DeVos
It’s a story about small kindnesses, big policies and how it’s so puzzling why we undermine public education.
Why This Mom’s Not Marching This Weekend
Not every Hillary Clinton supporter is putting on a pink pussy hat and protesting.
Liberal Fascism Checked: California Attorney General’s Backpage Prosecution Hits a Roadblock
Even liberals can cop a fascist line: Take California Attorney General Kamala Harris whose Backpage prosecution hit a roadblock last week in Sacramento, the capital of the bluest of blue states.
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Donald Trump and Janet Napolitano Visit Phoenix, and I’m Not Sure Whom I Despise More
It doesn’t give me a lot of faith in Hillary Clinton’s campaign in Arizona to know that it touted former governor Janet Napolitano’s return to the state on Sunday to stump for HRC at the Democratic Party headquarters in Phoenix before heading over to the memorial service downtown for former…
Kratom Madness! The Head-Shop Staple Remains Legal — But for How Long?
Cracks have appeared in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s plan to outlaw kratom, a popular plant-based pain reliever that’s sold online and in smoke shops in powder, liquid, and capsule form. This past Friday, September 30 — the day the ban was expected to take effect — Wisconsin Congressman Mark…
A Tale of Two Places: What Is a Border Town?
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of essays that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. So often we talk about border towns as if geography were all that defines them. While that is initially true, geography is…
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Dems Hope Hillary Clinton Will Turn Arizona Blue, but Reality Argues Otherwise
Delusion is a powerful force. After all, life is often bleak — and obsessively pondering that bleakness can incapacitate one’s ability to endure. Take this idea that rolls around every four years among local Democrats — and, often, folks who don’t have to live here — that this political cycle…
Arpaio Rolls the Dice, Betting The Donald Will Save Him from the Slammer, if Trump Becomes POTUS
Talk about a metaphor. Sheriff Joe Arpaio was limping toward me on his way out of federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s courtroom in downtown Phoenix, following a recent hearing before the jurist. Snow, the trial judge in the landmark civil-rights case Melendres v. Arpaio, had signaled, for what seemed like…
Paul Babeu’s Tenure as DeSisto School Headmaster Haunts His CD1 Campaign
Perhaps the only thing that can halt Pinal County’s ethically challenged sheriff, Paul Babeu, from winning the Republican primary for Arizona’s First Congressional District is a concentrated campaign of political carpet bombing. By carpet bombing, I mean a deluge of robocalls, mailers, and/or TV ads aimed at bringing voters up…
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County Attorney Bill “The Little General” Montgomery Should Be Cited for Dereliction of Duty in I-10 Shooter Fiasco
First they try to frame you, then they don’t want to give your property back. So it goes in the Kafkaesque saga of Leslie Merritt Jr., the guy the Arizona Department of Public Safety tried to paint as “the I-10 shooter” after he was arrested last September 18 for four…