By The Admin on January 26, 2012
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer says she meant no disrespect when she pointed a finger at President Barack Obama while talking on an airport tarmac.
But she says it was disrespectful toward her when he abruptly walked off Wednesday to shake spectators’ hands.
Brewer and Obama had an intense discussion at the airport in Mesa, Arizona. Brewer was [...]
Posted in Arizona, Featured, White House
By The Admin on January 23, 2012
President Barack Obama is praising Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords as an “inspiration” and “the very best of what public service should be.”
Giffords announced Sunday that she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt last January.
Obama praised Giffords for “a dedication to fairness, a willingness [...]
Posted in Arizona, Congress
By The Admin on January 18, 2012
Jurors in the trial of two white supremacist brothers accused of bombing a black city official in Scottsdale on Tuesday heard audio tapes of the men using racial slurs and pointing out the bombing site to a government informant.
Identical twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon have pleaded not guilty in the 2004 bombing, which injured [...]
Posted in Arizona, Race
By The Admin on December 26, 2011
Newly documented policies and practices shaped by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio that have created a “civil rights crisis” for the state’s 6.4 million Hispanic residents are being framed by community leaders as mimicking actions of segregationists, including southern sheriffs and state governors, who used force to subjugate blacks during their freedom struggles across the South [...]
Posted in Arizona, Race
By The Admin on September 7, 2011
Haven’t we seen this episode before?
A stand-up comedian loses his cool and, in a wince-inducing spectacle caught on tape, peppers a heckler of a different color with machine-gun rounds of ugly and racist language. The words are meant to hurt, bully and demean, but mostly intended to put the audience member in his place by [...]
Posted in Arizona, Race
