Politics & Government

Less than a week before the election, Hillary Clinton held a rally at ASU that drew a crowd of at least 10,000.

New Times catches up with George Lindell, the “Jew S.A.” guy from the recent Trump rally in Phoenix, who discusses his controversial political, religious, and racial views.

The Arizona Democratic Party wants a federal judge to block the state’s Republican Party from an alleged effort to send out red-shirted Donald Trump supporters to hassle voters on election day. Exactly how many Trump supporters will heed calls by the Republican presidential candidate or state party to act as…

Candidate for JP Leonore Driggs got her rivals booted from the ballot and is running unopposed, but some are criticizing the way the mother of five is presenting herself to the public.

With less than a week until election day, Hillary Clinton will campaign in Arizona.

Tony Ryan and Jack Wilborn are voting “yes” on Proposition 205, the initiative to legalize marijuana in Arizona, and they’re encouraging others to do so, as well. Especially law-enforcement officers like them. “If law enforcement wants to improve community relations, they need to vote yes on 205,” says Wilborn, a…

Arizona Democratic lawmaker Cecilia Velasquez pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one misdemeanor count of misusing food stamps, despite previous denials and accusations of a “political witch hunt.” Velasquez, one of two State Representatives for Legislative District 29 in Litchfield Park,  originally pleaded not guilty back in June, when she was…

Did Jan Brewer put her foot in her mouth this past Friday? A lot of Arizona Latinos think so.  In an interview with the Boston Globe this past Friday, the former Arizona governor was asked whether she thinks Latinos will play a significant role in helping Hillary Clinton win Arizona, a…

When Governor Doug Ducey announced his appointment of David Farca to lead the Arizona-Mexico Commission last year, he attributed his choice to Farca’s “exceptional entrepreneurial experience.” But records in an ongoing lawsuit in Maricopa County Superior Court against Farca and ToH Design Studio, his Scottsdale interior-design and furnishings company, put a negative…

“Warn the young and the innocent: I’m about to get obscene.” That’s the untraditional opening line in a new campaign video from the guy who might just be Arizona’s most untraditional candidate, Democrat Mikel Weisser. Often seen wearing a baseball cap and peace sign or Bernie Sanders’ buttons while stumping for…

The owner of five Phoenix-area Mexican restaurants was sentenced to a year and a day in prison on Monday for tax fraud related to her hiring of undocumented workers. Isamary Diaz, 56, began Armando’s Mexican Food restaurants with her husband in 1986, later running the businesses herself after their divorce. She began…

Take a deep breath. The end of what may be the strangest, most unpredictable election season in all of American history is in sight, people! Tonight marks one of the final milestones: the third presidential debate.  Chris Wallace of Fox News will moderate, which should make for some very interesting…

Governor Doug Ducey plans to move forward immediately on recommendations from a task force that he created to clear a backlog of rape kits that have gone untested for years. Released in a report on Monday, the Sexual Assault Evidence Collection Kit Task Force’s recommendations include passing legislation to require that…

From the hot-mic recording of Donald Trump bragging about sexual assault to the new WikiLeaks revelations about Hillary Clinton’s Wall Street speeches to last night’s bizarre 90-minute debate, it’s fair to say this weekend was a game changer in the 2016 election campaign. But as prominent Republican figures like Senator…

In this year’s presidential election, some are saying the Republican-tilting state of Arizona could go Democrat for the first time in two decades — and that Latino voters will play a key role in whether that happens. Latinos make up 22 percent of Arizona’s eligible voters, and most lean Democratic. They usually…

“When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over — and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.” That was Donald Trump, speaking at…

An Arizona employer is stiffing a small-business owner on a completed job, affecting dozens of low-income employees. Sounds like the kind of greedhead Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families is targeting with its campaign to raise the minimum wage, right? Wrong — the employer is Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy…

More than 10,000 people schlepped to the Prescott Valley Events Center Tuesday to see Donald Trump in the flesh. Fans started lining up for the rally — Trump’s sixth appearance in Arizona — at 9 p.m. Monday. There wasn’t enough room inside, so several thousand watched the Republican presidential nominee…

La edición de 2016 Lo Mejor de Phoenix del New Times ya está disponible, con una serie de ensayos que exploran cómo nuestra proximidad a México hace que este sea un lugar mejor para vivir. Muy a menudo hablamos de ciudades fronterizas como si la geografía fuera todo lo que…

It was quite a public-relations coup for that dinosaur of daily newspapers, the Arizona Republic. Last week, it seemed as though everyone in the country was talking about how a “conservative newspaper” or a “conservative editorial board” had endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time in its 126-year…

Despite public outcry and two congressional letters asking for a delay to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed ban on the herbal remedy kratom, the DEA remains poised to make the head-shop staple a Schedule I drug, adding it to the same category of illicit substances as heroin, LSD, and…

Churches aren’t supposed to endorse federal candidates, but it’s easy to see from a recent political screed which way a Tempe Catholic church pastor wants his flock to vote. Pastor John Bonavitacola, leader of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Tempe, doesn’t refer to the candidates by name in his…