Captain Joel Fox (at right) doesn't have to worry about a $315,000 fine, but the legal woes for him and other SCA contributors may not be over. A settlement agreement between Fox and the Maricopa County Elections Department drops the main case against him, though the process of uncovering the SCA's...
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It seems that artist Rose Johnson, who died tragically in Bali on Sunday, Arizona time, as a result of alcohol adulterated with deadly methanol, touched the lives of those around her wherever she happened to be. Facebook is still buzzing over news of the artist's bizarre death at the age...
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Spanish-language DUI courts was rejected today by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.Thomas already lost this one once at the U.S. District Court level, though he once vowed to take it to the Supreme Court, if necessary. Thomas believes the...
If there's one thing that Diamondbacks fans have usually been able to bank on during this season of perpetual inconsistency, it's the near-constant dominance of pitcher Dan Haren. Well, up until this past week, that is. For the second time in as many outings, Arizona's All-Star pitcher managed only five...
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe could not be more different from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Donahoe is as sober as, well, a judge and has exactly zero media savvy. The bellicose Arpaio lives for media "events." Donahoe, who is the county's criminal presiding judge, is nearing retirement. When the...
A few weeks ago I had the great pleasure of attending the Draft Magazine Microbrew Festival at Turf Paradise. It was a fairly great time marred by one great disappointment. I ran into Louis Dolgoff, Arizona's Dogfish Head sales manager who explained to me that he was in possession of Sah'tea, a...
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The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians sued the federal government this week in an attempt to stop logging in a burned area north of the Grand Canyon. The feds want to sell 9,114 acres of Kaibab National Forest that was burned in the 2006 Warm Fire...
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Beach Bites: The King of Vodka
Loads of reporters have parachuted into Phoenix over the years to write up our power-mad top constable Sheriff Joe, and often they've told the easy story of the flamboyant law man who talks like a mafioso and treats county inmates worse than the hounds in his kennels. Thankfully, the New Yorker's Bill...
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The majority of Arizona voters are completely delusional, according to a new Rasmussen Reports survey.The July 21 poll asked 500 likely voters if "the policies and activities of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio helped or hurt Arizona's image." A whopping 57 percent say they've helped. Only 27 percent say they've...
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Maricopa County Sheriff's Captain Joel Fox will argue before a Superior Court judge on Tuesday that he shouldn't have to turn over the names of donors behind a nebulous $105,000 contribution to the Arizona Republican Party. The county elections department has wanted to see those names since election season, but...
CORPUS DELICTI We already know the real cause of death of Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear's Perryville Prison who collapsed after being left in a shadeless cage for at least four hours in the pitiless Arizona sun: Department of Corrections honcho Charles Ryan ordered her plug pulled on...
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Rest in Peace, Rose Johnson
How would you define the quintessential Phoenix restaurant? For me, the old cliché about the mythological firebird rising from the ashes rings strangely true when it comes to some of the more distinctive neighborhood spots. We preserve our old buildings — and with them, our history — by repurposing them...
You don't have to be a Harvard prof to note the smiling hypocrisy of President Barack Obama's comments last night on racial profiling. Just hours after Obama defended his Cambridge pal Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in a presidential press conference, and spanked the Cambridge cops for acting "stupidly" in arresting the...
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In following up our earlier post today about 3,600 speed-camera cases on the docket for this morning in a single justice court, we stumbled upon the answer to a good question. Many readers have asked: What happens if you get a speed-camera ticket on the freeway in Arizona, but you live out of state? We had been barking...
The East Valley Tribune's executive editor writes in a column today that the newspaper will no longer run columns submitted by a local woman who didn't actually write them. The column often appeared with a picture of the supposed author, Rebecca Warren [pictured] of Warren Financial Services, which made it...
How many Arizona legislators does it take to change a budget? All of them; as long as they're locked in a room together, not getting paid, and not allowed to go home until they do it. The Arizona State Legislature unanimously passed a budget package Monday that would restore funding...
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has filed a consumer fraud suit against several Tucson real estate businesses. The suit alleges that the company engaged in a fraudulent system that led to the foreclosure of more than 130 homes. The scheme allegedly involved attracting novice home buyers to purchase properties and...