The article, “Marked for Death,” appeared in Westword on May 25, 2000. It reported how USP Florence, a high-security penitentiary located 100 miles southwest of Denver, had become the most violent prison in the entire federal system — rocked by a series of inmate-on-inmate assaults and murders, ruled by gangs, […]

The Gila River Indian Community threatened Thursday to pull out of Arizona’s Drought Contingency Plan, citing the advancement of a bill in the Arizona Legislature that it said threatened its water rights. The tribe, which is contributing significant amounts of water to help implement the Drought Contingency Plan inArizona, said […]

An Arizona businessman who owned shooting ranges reportedly fired two shots at his wife after threatening her during a verbal altercation, according to a Chandler Police Department report. He then turned the gun on himself. Continue Reading Police and paramedics responded to Boe Bergeson’s home in Chandler on Saturday night […]

Sheila Polk sure put the “mad” in Reefer Madness with her recent filing in the highly important cannabis concentrates case now under review by the state Supreme Court. The pot-hating prohibitionist prosecutor, now serving her fifth term of office as Yavapai County Attorney, actually compares products containing cannabis extracts to […]

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey failed to keep roads safe with his free-wheeling autonomous vehicle rules, says a $10 million claim against the state by the family of the woman killed by an Uber self-driving car last March. The claim was filed on September 18, 2018, but released this week to […]

Robert “Bobby” Wilson had worked as an adjunct law professor at the Maricopa County Community College District for more than 20 years before his boss told him in August he was being fired. Wilson, a former candidate for the Arizona Senate, was miffed at the abruptness of the termination, and […]

Arizona Representative John Kavanagh mocked another state lawmaker’s secular invocation during the daily floor session on Monday by introducing God as his “guest” for the proceedings. God, Kavanagh said, was in the House gallery, “as he is everywhere.” Kavanagh’s snarky remarks drew an emotional response the following day from Representative Athena […]

An Arizona Walmart location terminated an employee in 2016 who held a valid medical-marijuana card after a drug test came back positive. But now a federal judge has ruled that because Walmart could not prove the employee was impaired at work, the company violated the nondiscrimination provision in the Arizona Medical […]

A decade after the recession cut its budget and staffing to the bone, the state agency tasked with making sure Arizona has a solid water supply is 10 years behind in key elements of groundwater management, according to a recent report by the state auditor general’s office. The Arizona Department […]