If there's anything the tragedy in St. Johns should teach you, it's that if you plan to spank your eight year old 1,000 times, you may not want to show him how to shoot a rifle. Either that, or you might want to consider the option of a "time out"...
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By John Dickerson In his ruling Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, U.S. District Judge Neil Wake cited a litany of unconstitutional problems in county jails: inadequate medical care, poor food, chronic overcrowding, and indifference to inmate health concerns. Jail medical personnel's prescribing of a Soviet-era drug that causes tremors, spasms...
By John Dickerson Tim Nelson, the Democratic candidate for Maricopa County attorney who's running neck-and-neck with County Attorney Andrew Thomas in the race, today reasserted his claim that Thomas played a key role in the arrests of two New Times executives last year. Nelson added at a press conderence that,...
The thing that's annoyed me most post-November 4 is the way state Dems seem to be shrugging and taking their losses locally on the chin. Rather than being infuriated that the state Democratic Party effed up, Dems seemingly have been resigned to getting cornholed royally by Republicans, as if that's...
Freedom's Phoenix has the scoop on the growing Post-it note rebellion against DPS' new photo enforcement cameras. Say you wanna revolution? I know I do every time I take the 51 through town and have to run the gauntlet of the Arizona Department of Public Safety's photo enforcement cameras. Literally,...
By Stephen Lemons With cries of Barack Obama's "Yes we can" refrain still echoing in the Wyndham's ballroom in downtown Phoenix, Tim Nelson conceded a hard-fought campaign against incumbent Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. "My disappointment in this election is more than overcome by my elation at the election of...
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James Saville with his sister Linda, in 2004. By John Dickerson Taxpayers spent $1,102,528.50 this year to settle another of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawsuits, New Times has learned through a public records request. The suit was brought by a man whom Arpaio framed in 1999 in a staged murder plot...
Don't be fooled -- it's possible you've gotten a bum steer on these initiatives by their promoters.
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You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit Lit, classic melodramas, Westerns or war movies, or Gone With the Wind to figure out the likely outcome of Baz Luhrmann's Australia within its first 15 minutes, but any or all of the above will help. Tightly wound and corseted...
Duffy Kilrain's prison mugshot By Ray Stern State corrections officials released the name of the prisoner killed last week -- Duffy Kilrain -- but few details about the crime. Kilrain, 51, was assaulted by "several inmates" at the Department of Corrections Eyman Meadows Unit and taken "immediately" to St. Mary's...
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With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of Disney's lively new animated movie Bolt looks a little bit real and a whole lot not. That's not a failure of craft: Goofy and sweet...
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Veggie Boy: Vegetarian House
When it comes to constructing things, I'm not the most capable person. I rely heavily on safety pins rather than sewing machines. I seem to believe that a nail into drywall can hold up any size picture frame. Oh, and spackle is the perfect material to use when filling huge,...
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Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008
I recently received the biography of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Woods. While reading about his friendship with Jimi Hendrix, Ronnie described him as part-black, Cherokee, and Mexican. I've always read about Jimi's grandmother being Cherokee, but this was the first I read about him being Mexican. I Googled Hendrix's name...
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The Top 10 Reissues of 2008
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FIRING WEEG Whenever this canary contemplates the difference between state Republicans and Democrats, he harks back to a famous episode from the original Star Trek series, entitled Mirror, Mirror. In it, Captain James T. Kirk and others are inadvertently transported to a mirror universe, where the egalitarian U.S.S. Enterprise is...
Maria Weeg, aka, "the Weeg-ster": Her resemblance to erstwhile Dukakis campaign aide Susan Estrich, is striking.It's gotta be cold comfort for Arizona Democratic Party Chairman "Dandy" Don Bivens and Executive Director Maria Weeg to be getting love from the ideological Cro-Magnons over at the Sonoran Alliance blog. After all, Bivens,...
FIRE's video of its December 4 "ICE raid."Check the graphic at the end. FIRE melts ICE, get it? Well, here's a man bites dog story, if there ever was one. Seems that on December 4, several orange jumpsuit-clad members of FIRE, which stands for "Flagstaff Immigrant Rights Enforcement," delivered a...
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