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El Mirage Officials Celebrate Narrow Victory in Bond Election, AG Opens Investigation over Allegations City Used Public Resources to Influence Outcome

El Mirage officials are planning to declare victory regarding the narrow approval of an $8.5 million bond at a special City Council meeting this afternoon.Their adoption of election results comes two days after the Attorney General's Office opened an investigation into whether the city improperly used public resources or employees...
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, February 16th, 2012

BAD DEALS Another hard-boiled gem: This is another great Paul Rubin story — hard-boiled and fact-based. I wouldn't want to get on Rubin's radar screen if I had anything better left untold ("Risky Business," February 2). R.J. O'Brien, Tempe A look at Weymouth's "morality ledger": Paul Rubin has done a...
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Sting @ Comerica Theatre

When did you first think Sting was a pompous twit? The love-me-I'm-tortured artistry of "King of Pain?" The way he sang "the bitter sting of tears" with a straight face on "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The way he withheld new songs for a 1986 Police reunion, resulting only in...
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How the Valley’s Legendary Restaurants Keep Up With the Times

It isn't easy running a Valley landmark — especially when it's a restaurant. The task of preserving a building's heritage while making updates for a new generation of diners — whether the changes regard the restaurant's atmosphere, menu, or otherwise — is akin to a taste-making (or -breaking) tightrope walk...
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Should Arizona Ditch Legislative Immunity For Lawmakers?

Following the resignation of former state Senator Scott Bundgaard over the scuffle he got into with his former girlfriend on the side of a Valley freeway -- and the legislative fiasco that followed -- Democratic state Senator Steve Gallardo says he plans to introduce a bill that would do away...
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North Coast Old Rasputin XIV Anniversary

​Beer: Old Rasputin XIV Anniversary Brewery: North Coast Brewing Co. Style: Russian Imperial Stout ABV: 11.5 percent About 95 years ago, Grigori Yefomovitch Rasputin was killed. Though he was purportedly a mystical healer and held some influence over the tsar of Russia, Rasputin's remembered mostly for his murder, for which...
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Victims Wonder Why Arpaio Let Sex-Abuse Cases Languish

Late 2005 to October 2007 was not a good time to be raped or molested in El Mirage. During that time, the town had signed a contract to pay the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office $3.6 million for police services. But Sheriff Joe Arpaio didn't use the money to bolster his...
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3 Indispensable Hand Tools For Pastry

Welcome to our new(ish) column, "Ask the Pastry Chef," by Amy Morris, a pastry sous chef at J&G Steakhouse. Have a question for Amy? Leave it in the comments section. What are 3 indispensable tools for pastry? There are many directions to go with this question. Tools for making a...
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Tom Horne’s Office Farmed Ethnic Studies Legal Work to Contributors

Horne's office threw a pricey bone to law firm Burch & Cracchiolo in the MAS affairAs reported in a previous blog, Administrative Law Judge Lewis Kowal recently upheld Arizona Schools' Superintendent John Huppenthal's finding that Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American Studies program violates the state's anti-ethnic studies statute, one...
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Larry Dever Is a Real Arizona Sheriff

Larry Dever, sheriff of Cochise County since 1997, dialed Paul Babeu's cell phone on the morning of February 18. Overnight, he'd read a story going viral on the New Times website. It was about the Pinal County sheriff, a political ally of Dever's and a Republican candidate for a U.S...
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Ten Favorite Margaritas in Metro Phoenix

We don't really go for all the hoopla over the made-up holidays that have crept onto the calendar in recent times, thanks to clever marketers. You know, like Orange M&M Day and Brown Rice Tortilla Week. (We made those up, don't worry.) But there's one fabricated celebration we're more than...
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Herman Cain: Gloria Allred a Left-Wing “Activist.” Will Address Sexual Harassment Allegations at Phoenix Press Conference

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain claims that the most-recent allegations of sexual harassment against him could be the result of a cash-strapped woman and her left-wing "activist" attorney, Gloria Allred.Cain's campaign just issued a press release addressing the new allegations. In addition to the jabs at Allred and his newest...
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Cycle: Meet Chad Beyer, the Valley’s Top Pro Cyclist

Like many other Valley of the Sun residents, Chad Beyer arrived into town as a grade-schooler from the mid-west. Little did he know at the time that he would leave town en route to becoming the most successful professional road cyclist that Phoenix has ever seen.Beyer may not carry the...
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Alibis: A Cologne for Cheating Men (Now Available at the Strip Club)

In today's example of how to find out how dumb your girlfriend is while high-flying your douche bag flag after a late-night visit to the strip club comes Alibis. The new line of fragrances is the result of some serious brainpower behind Mavericks club in Cape Town, South Africa. Now available over the greasy...