Phoenix Business Journal: “Retailers may like the House’s latest tax bill, but real estate developers and venture capitalists hate it. U.S.-based multinational corporations and small professional services firms that operate as S corporations also are upset.”
Arizona Republic: “For two years, supervisors and other officials have complained about the high legal costs for Maricopa County tied to their internal power struggle. Now, some of those same people have filed legal notices asking for millions in damages because of the emotional stress caused by the political warfare.”
Phoenix New Times: “It wasn’t enough . . . to file three felony charges against [Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Gary] Donahoe, despite a complete lack of evidence. . . . Last year, drunk on the conspiracy theory that all county officials were corrupt and that county judges were shielding them, Arpaio and Thomas went nuts. They charged Supervisors Don Stapley and Mary Rose Wilcox with cases so weak that a wiser prosecutor is on the record saying that she saw no evidence of a crime.”
Phoenix New Times: “On April 27, Janet Napolitano pronounced that the border separating the United States from the Republic of Mexico is more secure than ever. . . . But Napolitano’s words rang hollow to those who live at or near the border in Cochise County . . . . The executive and legislative branches of the federal government have set up Cochise County for disaster by not coming up with a border policy to effectively handle what’s known as “‘llegal immigration’.”
Phoenix New Times: “Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who recently slipped Sand Land’s Hispanic population an ice pick to the kidney by vowing to ‘vigorously defend’ the law if and when the feds file suit. See, Goddard, a Democrat, wants to be governor, just like his daddy was long ago. But since Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed SB 1070 on April 23, she’s shot past Goddard in the polls, as if someone spiked her prune juice with crystal meth.”