I could have investigated any number of important topics this past weekend for today’s column. Instead, I opted to spend Saturday night researching the quintessential downtown Phoenix experience
The execution of Ronald Phillips, who raped and beat to death a 3-year-old Ohio girl, became part of the conversation about how we kill our killers. Arizona must answer this question before its next execution.
In 1973, columnist Art Buchwald provided Nixon supporters a handy list of responses to questions from nasty liberals. It seems appropriate to borrow some of it here. (I am not a crook.)
It’s what I asked him to do in a “Dear John Letter.” I didn’t expect him to take me so literally.
These aren’t presidential position papers. These are the ramblings of a man who only five years ago was tweeting about the love affair between the stars of the movie Twilight.
How does standing in line at the DMV to change the address on your driver’s license compare to the Trail of Tears and slavery?
Of course not, at least in a biological sense. But what else is there new to talk about as Sheriff Joe finally goes on trial today?
Okay, we can all agree that Obamacare wasn’t perfect, but what’s the rush? Get it right this time.
By the time I arrived here in 2013, Psycho’s Janet Leigh was dead and so, it seeemed, was downtown Phoenix.
Whether at a restaurant or bar, the worth of the meal is so much more than the quality of the food and drink
Stephen Lemons, columnist for the Phoenix New Times, bids farewell to friends and enemies.
Critics of the listings’ behemoth Backpage.com pull out the long knives for its erstwhile owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin.
Phoenix anarchist Beth Payne says the left-wing John Brown Gun Club will not fire the first shot against right-wing militias.
A member of the Arizona Liberty Guard has Nazi symbolism on his Facebook page, though he insists that he is not a neo-Nazi.
Department of Child Safety Director Greg McKay is true to his cop roots with a memo okaying secret recordings and lie-detection software.
Perennial candidate for office Kelli Ward gets excluded from the March4Trump rally, crashes it anyway, then keeps talking on Facebook. Armed militia at March4Trump identified by Southern Poverty Law Center.
Nativists, bikers, militiamen, Trumpkins and alt-righters, oh, my!
State Senator Sonny Borrelli’s SB 1142 would equate protesting with organized crime, and he believes Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez would approve.
It’s a story about small kindnesses, big policies and how it’s so puzzling why we undermine public education.
Not every Hillary Clinton supporter is putting on a pink pussy hat and protesting.
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of essays that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. So often we talk about border towns as if geography were all that defines them. While that is initially true, geography is…
Don’t let the doorknob hit you on the way out. That’s the message to former Arizona Corporation Commission Chairwoman Susan Bitter Smith from both state Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Governor Doug Ducey. In a letter dated December 21, Ducey accepted Bitter Smith’s resignation, which she had made effective January…
