Missed your chance to vent to about the chaos and delays of last month’s Presidential Preference Election in Arizona? Then head out to one of three public hearings in the Phoenix area starting on Monday and give Arizona Secretary of State Michelle Reagan a piece of your mind. She and…
Few Americans speak with such frankness about political correctness, radical Islam, and Donald Trump as comedian Bill Maher. Through his standup act and his long-running HBO talk show Real Time with Bill Maher, the avowed liberal and sacred-cow-killer has zero problem making his lefty pals feel uncomfortable as he challenges…
Arizona must continue allowing undocumented immigrants with work permits and protection from deportation to apply for driver’s licenses, a three-judge U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled. The judges affirmed a permanent injunction blocking former Governor Jan Brewer’s executive order that denied driver’s licenses to undocumented young immigrants who receive…
Arizona’s Republican voters may have overwhelmingly picked Donald Trump during last month’s presidential primary, but a new report says Ted Cruz still has a few tricks up his sleeve. In an article published in the Washington Examiner, members of the Cruz campaign discussed their strategy for packing Arizona’s delegate seats…
The fallout’s still coming down from the bungled March 22 Arizona Presidential Preference Election: Besides the fact that yet another protest took place at Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan’s office, it turns out the feds are investigating — sort of. On Monday, county officials revealed that a letter was…
A long-anticipated field presentation scheduled today by the Arizona Forestry Division for the families of 19 incinerated Granite Mountain Hotshots – during which relatives are to be taken to the site where their loved ones perished — has been sharply criticized for failing to accurately portray what happened. During the…
Capping off two weeks of fury over the March 22 messy presidential preference vote in Maricopa County, a group of frustrated citizens will make one last effort to get their voices heard and maybe stall the certification of the results. Secretary of State Michelle Reagan is expected to sign off on…
As a way to recognize the legacy of Cesar Chavez, Glendale has dedicated a street after the civil rights icon. Glendale officials held a ceremony today where they formally renamed a section of 59th Avenue, from Glendale to Orangewood avenues, to Cesar Chavez Boulevard. The ceremony was held a day after…
Jose Miguel Barboza can’t vote because he is undocumented, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting civically engaged. The 23-year-old has dedicated much of his time over the last few years to registering Latinos to vote and convincing them that their vote matters. Lately, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and…
Beginning today, Arizona residents can replace their driver’s licenses or identification cards with the state’s new voluntary travel identification card that complies with the federal REAL ID Act security requirements. The Arizona Department of Transportation says the card will be needed to access such as airports, restricted federal buildings, and…
New Times blew it, dear readers. In a March 22 article entitled “How to Vote in Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election Today,” it states that voting that day would be “super-easy.” As the whole world now knows, voting in that election in Maricopa County wasn’t “super-easy.” It was a complete cluster-f#$%. If there’s…
Leading Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have been competing with each other over who has the toughest stance on immigration. They’ve called for more deportations and aggressive immigration enforcement. But a new survey finds most people in Arizona do not agree with those views. The survey released…
A mysterious box removed from a power pole in Phoenix last week may have been a police surveillance camera, but Salt River Project won’t go into detail about it. Phoenix resident C. O’Brian alerted New Times to the weird “black box” in an e-mail last week and sent along the…
The fallout of last week’s bungled Presidential Preference Election in Arizona continued this week as officials and angry voters packed a hearing at the State Capitol. Many of the voters were among those who spent hours in line last Tuesday waiting to vote. Yesterday, they spent hours giving election officials…
Nicole Galvan has to feed her greyhound June by hand, one kibble at a time, because she only has one tooth. The nonprofit that rescued the dog from a commercial breeding facility where she was kept in a cage just six inches longer than her body had to remove all…
Non-Latino Arizonans have a soft spot for immigrant kids, if a new poll commissioned by a children’s advocacy organization can be believed. According to a telephone survey of voters in six states paid for by the non-profit group First Focus, a majority of non-Latino Arizonans support birthright citizenship and have…
The Arizona Diamondbacks are threatening to sue Maricopa County unless they’re allowed to escape their lease because the county won’t pay for $187 million in Chase Field renovations. In a letter obtained by 12 News (below) that was sent from the county to the team’s executive officer, Derrick Hall, County Supervisor Clint Hickman…
The wait times in Maricopa County for voting in Tuesday’s Presidential Preference Election varied greatly in some areas, sometimes between nearby polling locations, a county report shows. The sheer scarcity of polling locations was one problem. Where they were located was another. Eighteen of 60 locations — nearly a third —…
Several hundred people, rallying under cries to “boycott racism” and “stand on the side of love,” descended on the Arizona State Capitol to protest a string of legislative proposals they’ve dubbed “anti-immigrant.” Carlos Garcia, director of the migrant rights group Puente Arizona, said he organized the protest, along with a…
Phoenix City Council members have voted to restore prayer at the beginning of their formal meetings, but the invocation will have to be given exclusively by individuals serving as chaplains for the city’s police and fire departments. The vote comes nearly two months after the City Council decided to have…
A group of about 40 people gathered outside of Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell’s Office today, angry at the seven-term Republican politician and demanding change. Some held signs like “Hey Hey Ho Ho Helen Purcell has to go!! Feel the Bern!” and “Stop Voter Suppression.” Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, meanwhile, called…
With less than a month before the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments over a deportation-relief program for undocumented parents that has been on hold for more than a year, a new study finds Arizona is one of the states with the most U.S. citizens living with family members who’d…
