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| Staci Lynn Barbosa and Jonathan Edward Vandergriff are accused of brutally "raping" their one-month-old son. |
Image: www.azleg.gov State Rep. Steve Court, R-Mesa, introduced a bill today that proposes a ban on alcohol sales and consumption at strip clubs and other adult businesses.
No happy hours at topless clubs for you -- not if State Rep. Steve Court, R-Mesa, has his way.
Court, the Legislature's majority leader, introduced a bill today that targets strip clubs and other adult-oriented businesses with a ban on alcohol and private rooms. The proposed law also aims to regulate the size of stages, redefine the terms "nude" and "seminude," and forces other changes for adult establishments.
Court tells New Times the idea for the bill was brought to him by groups interested in "maintaining decency in the community."
The Center for Arizona Policy, which often lobbies on religious or anti-abortion matters, was one of those groups, he says.
The bill hasn't been assigned to a committee yet, and Court isn't sure how much support it might have.
"This is kind of our first pass at this," he says. "We'll see how it goes."
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| The murders of Glenna and Lawrence Shapiro are the first murders in Paradise Valley since 2004. |
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| Scott Bundgaard: Valley PR honcho David Liebowitz is an "attack mutt." |
"Lie-bowitz, Gordon's attack mutt, is the story. Paid $100k to shill for democrat Mayor Gordon. Another rip off for taxpayers!," Bundgaard "tweeted" yesterday.
Leibowitz, who acted as the media liaison for Ballard during the fallout from the freeway fight, fired back.
A 30-year-old man was rushed to a hospital Thursday evening after a serious accident while jumping at the newly opened Sky Park Indoor Trampoline Park in Phoenix's Arcadia neighborhood.
"He was not breathing and had no pulse," says Captain Scott Walker of the Phoenix Fire Department.
Walker expects to get an update on the man's condition in a few hours.
The victim had reportedly jumped into the facility's foam pit before receiving the injury, he says.
Phoenix police had no information as of yet.
Latino Vote 2012 Election
The emerging Latino vote in Arizona is the focus of the Arizona Latino Research Enterprise and Raul H. Castro Institute's annual Town Hall gathering at Phoenix College.
Panels of experts and speakers at the Town Hall will examine the increasing influence of Latino voters at a national, state and local level, as well as the growing contributions of Latino youth -- as voters and community organizers.
That was also the theme of "Brown Wave," a New Times feature about young Latinos, including undocumented students, mobilizing west Phoenix voters and helping increase voter turnout by nearly five times.
But it wasn't just in Phoenix, helping turn the tide in two city council seats and the mayor's race. Election experts say Latino voters played a pivotal role in the recall of former State Senate President Russell Pearce.
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| Big win last night for Arizona over rival Cal but not with the overrated old-school boys pictured here |
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| This is Joe Arpaio's "grrrr" face (it's also the face he makes when you ask him about Mexican drug cartels infiltrating his office -- which is exactly what we asked him before snapping this photo). |
Jerald Newman was left bloodied and bruised after his arrest at a Buckeye Walmart on Black Friday. Witnesses say a cop was too rough with him.
Jerald Newman, the grandpa whose bloody arrest at a Walmart on Black Friday made national headlines, hasn't yet been charged on allegations of shoplifting and resisting arrest.
Buckeye police Lieutenant Jared Griffiths tells New Times that his agency did submit the charges to prosecutors. But the Maricopa County Attorney's Office sent the case back to the police agency for further investigation.
Griffiths says the agency plans to shore up the case and resubmit it next week.
"We have asked Buckeye to provide us with some additional information we need in order to make a charging decision," writes Jerry Cobb, spokesman for County Attorney Bill Montgomery, in response to an e-mail we sent him.
Witnesses at the Walmart claimed that Buckeye police officer Kevin Rorke was too harsh on Newman during the arrest.
The Maricopa County Sheriff's office demands -- again -- that the federal government turn over more proof of its claim that the office has practiced routine racial profiling.
In a letter sent to the U.S. Department of Justice today (see below), a private attorney hired by the sheriff's office says it would be "utterly impossible" to find that evidence in 2 million pages of records it turned over to the DOJ.
The DOJ obviously has a subset of those documents that it relied upon to make its findings, writes taxpayer-funded attorney Joseph Popolizio, and "to expect the MCSO to guess which documents on which the DOJ relied to reach its findings is patently unfair."
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| Is Joe Arpaio trying to scare off Mike Stauffer, his opponent in this year's election? |
Bloomberg View
Anti-union sentiments among Arizona's conservative politicos aren't letting up.
Four anti-union bills aimed at thwarting unions' existence in the public sector sailed out of the Senate's Government Reform committee on Wednesday.
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Arizona Lottery
Nothing like a bad economy to get people to line up for those lottery tickets.
State lottery officials say ticket sales in Arizona totaled $293 million between July 2011 to December 2011, nearly 9 percent over the same mid-term sales figures last year.
Arizona lottery officials parceled out the $293 million, and gave $65 million to the state, paid out $183 million to lucky winners and gave $19 million in commission to retailers who sold the tickets.
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| Jan Brewer's finger is getting way too much attention these days. |
Fox News host/Governor Jan Brewer's BFF Greta Van Susteren broadcasted a photo last night of the governor sticking her finger in the face of Pinal County Sheriff/Congressional candidate Paul Babeu.
Brewer's bestie even hams it up, noting that the governor is an "equal opportunity pointer."
The photo of Babeu, as you can see above, is quite similar to the photo of Brewer sticking her finger in the face of President Barack Obama that went viral last week. More on that here.
Brewer has since whored the photo out to raise money for her political action committee -- and Babeu, in a Joe Arpaio-esque act of perverse media slutiness, issued a press release bragging about his encounter with the business end of Brewer's finger.
OneCommunityAZ.com Trino Sandoval
Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is one step closer to completing his team of advisors with the appointment of Phoenix College faculty member Trino Sandoval as Senior Policy Advisor on Education.
Sandoval, who is "on loan" from Phoenix College, will take the lead on the Mayor's education agenda, which includes strengthening pre-school programs, expanding after-school programs, improving collaboration between high schools and colleges and seeking a greater university presence in Phoenix.
He will spend about two-thirds of his time in the Mayor's Office and continue teaching at Phoenix College. His salary will continue to be paid by Phoenix College. By borrowing experts in various fields, Stanton will be able to stack his team with advocates while remaining within his budget.
The Mayor's Office is still working on filling three positions -- a public information officer dedicated to the mayor and senior policy advisors who will serve as advocates for small business and the homeless. (The Mayor's Office previously had 19 staff positions, but is now down to 11 slots.)
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| The great Steve Nash during better times a few years ago. |
