Sue Black, the well-connected new Arizona Parks Department director, has reportedly hired another Milwaukee buddy to a top slot in her agency. The former head of the Milwaukee parks system vows to build a “dream team” that will lead the parks department to a coveted National Recreation and Park Association’s annual…
As governor, what do you do if your state’s incarceration rate is 48 percent higher than the national average and is full of fourth-graders who can’t read? If you’re Governor Doug Ducey, you use tax dollars to launch a “rebranding” campaign, duh! Ever since Ducey asked the public to submit…
After what’s being hailed as an “overwhelming response from the people of Arizona,” Republican Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is moving the location of his rally Tuesday night. The event was originally going to be held in the Grace Community Church in Tempe, which can hold about 2,300 people, but…
Republican U.S. Senator John McCain did not exactly receive a warm welcome when he visited the Navajo Nation this weekend to commemorate the Navajo Code Talkers. Throughout the day he was confronted by activists waving banners painted with messages, such as: “McCain = Indian Killer” and “McCain’s not welcome here”…
U.S. Senator John McCain is “deeply concerned” about the United States decision not to prosecute an Islamic State militant that held Arizona aid worker Kayla Mueller hostage in Syria for 18 months before her death earlier this year. McCain penned a letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Attorney…
As more than 3 million gallons of heavy metal-laden sludge from a spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado has worked its way down the A nimas River and toward the San Juan River and Lake Powell, many are asking how something like this could happen and how we…
18-year-old Jessica Burlew has been in jail for 571 days while her public defenders and the state of Arizona have waded through the complicated and drawn out process of preparing for a homicide trial. A sources close to the situation tells New Times that the attorneys and relevant parties have been…
Several Arizona politicians at a town hall meeting Sunday tried to commandeer the plight of a beloved herd of wild horses to fuel the states-rights movement. But the approximately 350 people who gathered at Mesa’s Love of Christ Lutheran Church to protest a federal proposal to remove the horses from…
Phoenix resident and de facto leader of the Arizona anti-Islam movement, Jon Ritzheimer, is planning another big “protest against radical Islam” — so big, he claims, that it’s going to span the globe. “I got contacts in Canada, Australia, and all across Europe – everybody’s on board,” he says in…
About 40 men and women from the local Latino community gathered in the Mi Familia Vota Phoenix headquarters last night to watch the first Republican Presidential debate, concluding at the end of the night, as one young woman so succinctly put it, that “none of the candidates are ready to…
Whether you’re a Jeb Bush supporter, a Donald Trump enthusiast, a die-hard Marco Rubio fan, or none of the above, tonight’s Republican presidential primary debate is bound to be full of surprises. Unlike in some election seasons, no one quite knows what to expect from the candidate lineup — will…
Last week, local resident Aaron Borders portrayed himself online and to the media as the Arizona State Director for the Donald J. Trump presidential campaign, and he said he was traveling to Cleveland to help the Trump crew with the first Republican presidential debate. But according to campaign officials and…
Arizona Senator John McCain was an outspoken critic of the 16-day October 2013 federal-government shutdown, vowing after it was over that it wouldn’t happen again. Seems he’s had a change of heart: he told NPR that he would support holding the 2016 federal-spending bill hostage over this funding issue. “I don’t…
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey formally unveiled his plan to “modernize” Arizona’s Medicaid System so it becomes a “bridge to independence” this week. A press release from his office states that the plan is all about “increasing personal responsibility, encouraging wellness, expanding health technology, protecting taxpayers, and promoting quality health care at an…
U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump recently appointed 30-year-old Aaron Borders, Second Vice Chairman of the Maricopa County Republican Party, to lead his official ground campaign in Arizona. Borders, who moved to Arizona from Ohio in 2009 and says he’s been around political campaigns his whole life, will even be traveling…
In Aurora, Colorado, last week, jurors headed to the courtroom to hear death-penalty arguments for a man convicted of shooting up a Colorado movie theater in 2012. In Lafayette, Louisiana, 59-year-old John Russell Houser open fire on the audience during a showing of Trainwreck, killing two people and injuring nine…
Last night, in 3,500 locations across the country, about 100,000 people tuned in all at once to watch Bernie Sanders speak, and to learn how they could help volunteer for his 2016 presidential campaign. Hundreds in the greater-Phoenix area spent the night talking politics and strategizing ways to spread, as…
Hundreds of people in the greater-Phoenix area will join tens of thousands of Bernie Sanders supporters across the country tonight to participate in the first official nationwide grassroots organizing meeting for the Sanders presidential campaign. In an event the campaign is calling “unprecedented,” people will gather in homes, coffee shops,…
The Republican Party of Maricopa County is calling on four Democratic Arizona politicians to “return every penny” of the cumulative $45,000 in campaign contributions they received from Planned Parenthood in the last few years, and to “publicly rebuke their fellow Democrats” for asking the Department of Justice to investigate The…
A recent poll found that more Republican voters have a favorable view of presidential candidate Donald Trump than they do of Arizona Senator John McCain. The telephone survey conducted by Rasmussen Reports polled 1,000 people between July 20-21, and revealed that at least 52 percent of likely Republican voters reported…
At 21, Grant Ronnebeck, a bright, friendly young man with an “infectious smile,” was just beginning to map out his life dreams. But, his uncle testified during an emotional U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, because of the country’s lax immigration policies, he won’t ever get to “follow his heart.”…
Anshantia “Tia” Oso, one of the protesters who interrupted a Town Hall event with presidential candidates Martin O’Malley and Bernie Sanders on Saturday, writes in a in a high-profile column today that she was the “right person” to lead the halting of the program. Oso touts her many activist qualifications…
