PHOENIX - Just as Arizona Republican Party Chairman Randy Pullen was concluding a meeting this morning at the Arizona Republican Party headquarters, h...
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
If Sheriff Clarence Dupnik gets his way, children in Arizona schools may be asked to answer questions that have nothing to do with reading, writing and arithmetic.
Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics
PHOENIX - Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued an official statement late Friday afternoon denying allegations by Meghan McCain, daughter of form...
Dawn Teo | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
PHOENIX - At a news conference today, Chris Simcox, founder of the Minutemen, formally announced his intention to challenge John McCain for his Arizon...
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 04.30.2009 | Media
This week's special NOW on PBS investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a hard-line sheriff from Maricopa County, Arizona, received an unprecedented avalanche of responses from NOW viewers.
AP | Posted 04.27.2009 | Home
COTTONWOOD, Ariz. — A bobcat has attacked three people in the central Arizona community of Cottonwood, including two men who were bitten by the ...
Randall Amster | Posted 04.05.2009 | Green
It's one thing when the desert is bereft of water, but the marshlands? The nation's agricultural leader? Major cities? Whole continents? And this is only the beginning.
International Herald Tribune | Randal C. Archibold | Posted 03.27.2009 | World
PHOENIX: The raging drug war among cartels in Mexico and their push to expand operations in the United States has led to a wave of kidnappings, shooti...
Randall Amster | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics
Obama came to Arizona to announce a relief plan. Simply by his presence, he's shown that he's aware of our plight, and that he won't sit idly by as the legislature from foreclosures on our future.
Francine Hardaway | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business
No, I don't want to move in with my daughters. I want to ask you to re-finance my mortgage at the current value of my house at a 4.2% rate, like everyone in Congress is suggesting.
Sally Kohn | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
What better way to welcome immigrants to America, where everyone is supposedly innocent until proven guilty, than march them in chains to a temporary concentration camp encircled with a high-voltage fence.
Randall Amster | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics
They say it's a dry heat out here, but at the end of the day, the Arizona legislature's shortsighted budget fix is fundamentally all wet.
Chris Bearde | Posted 03.06.2009 | Comedy
It has been stated that Sarah Palin sent her congratulations to Michael Steel and invited him to come visit Alaska as soon as he gets a visa.
Dawn Teo | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics
Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Russell Pearce and AZ House Appropriation Committee Chair John Kavanagh are advocating for huge cuts in education funding across Arizona.
Treehugger.com | Posted 02.16.2009 | Green
Mesa, Arizona has decided that rather than whip out the weedwhackers and chainsaws, they're going to employ goats to do their thing and clear out 30 a...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics
Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?
Randall Amster | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
By most accounts, Jane Napolitano's been a competent and capable governor, which is something of a rarity in the annals of Arizona.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
The Mexican/U.S. Border is a complicated, difficult issue that ain't gonna be fixed by platitudes and walls; we desperately need a long-term approach that addresses all sides.
Graham Bensinger | Posted 01.28.2009 | Entertainment
Nash is a 6'2, white, non-dunking, Canadian. He may be the least physically gifted point guard in the NBA, yet he's a two-time Most Valuable Player.
Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.28.2009 | Politics
Like a restricted country club that would rather die than change, the Republican Party is marginalizing itself for the sake of the white men who run it.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
GM is selling off, one-by-one, piece-by-piece, memory-by-memory, the GM Heritage Collection. Finding out felt like I'd taken a punch to the gut.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 01.18.2009 | Style
While retailers across the country struggle to survive some shops in Tucson are counting their blessings in the form of pesos.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.18.2009 | Business
Even Bush doesn't want to go down in history as the man who oversaw the destruction of GM, Ford and Chrysler (I hope), and I'd guess Obama wishes he could install his own new team now and fire Paulson.
Angela Kelley | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
"Smile, You're Under Arrest"--that's the name of a new reality TV show starring none other than Sheriff Joe Arpaio of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Of...
Dawn Teo | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics