Stephen Lemons

Embattled Pinal County prosecutor’s top investigator is disgraced cop Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller hired Richard Mueller to lead his investigators -- despite Mueller's long rap sheet.

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Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?

Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?

Guy took Charlie Kirk's name in vain...
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Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post Gila County Attorney Bradley Beauchamp fired an employee for the Facebook post last year. Was it protected speech?

Last year, a low-level employee of the Gila County Attorney's Office took a bathroom break and posted "Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk" on his personal Facebook. He got fired for it.

Now he's suing on free speech grounds.

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Diary #605 Probably every bibliophile suffers from that syndrome where they buy books and then take a very long time to get around to reading them.  I’m certainly no exception, but I also do it with DVD…

The self-appointed TV watchdogs who were so common in the late ’70s and early ’80s…raised a huge public stink about any show that might be too intense for a timid 6-year-old with a nervous disorder. maggiemcneill.com/2022/02/01/d...

Pinal County Attorney used Signal to skirt public records law Republican prosecutor Brad Miller denied that he has Signal on his phone, but Phoenix New Times has seen the messages.

When a New Times reporter asked to see his phone to confirm, Miller asked if he could look at the reporter’s phone. New Times immediately agreed to such an exchange, but Miller reneged on the mutual look-see.
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Glendale official asked for cash while blasting council ‘slush fund’ Lupe Conchas wants to end oversight-free city council stipends. At the same time, he asked people to send him money directly.

Glendale city councilmember Lupe Conchas has pushed for ending unaccountable city council "slush fund" stipends.

At the same time, he posted on Facebook to ask people to send him money directly via cash apps to help with home repairs.

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Pinal County Attorney used Signal to skirt public records law Republican prosecutor Brad Miller denied that he has Signal on his phone, but Phoenix New Times has seen the messages.

Last week, we asked Pinal County Attorney Brad Miller if he used Signal. He said no. We asked if Signal was on his phone. He said no.

Today, we have a story about Brad Miller using Signal to avoid public records disclosures.

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Arizona woman: Musk’s PAC owes me thousands for petition signatures The world's richest man paid $47 a signature during the 2024 election. One Arizona woman says his PAC stiffed her as much as $12,000.

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Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.

Perhaps they should rename the Streisand Effect the Sinema Effect.

After all, Kyrsten Sinema basically took the Chandler AI data center project from undercovered and likely to happen to dead as a doornail.

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Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.

Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.

Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote Sinema lobbied hard for the data center, but her involvement created exactly the opposition she tried to sweeping away.

It's official" Kyrsten Sinema is as good a lobbyist as she was a politician. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/chandle...

I really wish people could get it through their fool heads that "The Cloud" is really just a euphemism for "somebody else's computers."

Chandler data center project will use ‘unknown’ amount of water Backers of the project originally requested the ability to use more than 100 million gallons of water a year, emails show.

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Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.

When Kyrsten Sinema spoke in favor of an AI data center at an Oct. 16 Chandler City Council meeting, she failed to mention she was there as a paid lobbyist.

Now, Sinema may have created an opposition she hoped to avoid.

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Sheriff considered request to house ICE detainees in county jails Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan had at least preliminary discussions with immigration authorities.

NEW: Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan fielded a request from ICE to house detainees in county jails.

In one, Sheridan lamented a federal court order that prevents MCSO from partnering with ICE.

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Sheriff considered request to house ICE detainees in county jails Emails show Maricopa County Sheriff Jerry Sheridan had at least preliminary discussions with immigration authorities.

You know he wants to…
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Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.

When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.

Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center When the ex-senator threatened Chandler over a data center, she was working as a paid lobbyist. She might suck at it.

Emails reveal that Kyrsten “Revolving Door” Sinema has been lobbying for an AI data center in Chandler since at least June. She likes to diss NIMBYs, but her comments to the city council pissed them off big time, records show.
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How the sheriff’s office milked a racial profiling case for $163M What do a golf cart, cable TV and car washes have to do with following a federal judge's order to stop racially profiling?

“MCSO and Maricopa County had an incentive to allocate and overstate what should be regular operating costs to the Melendres Fund so that MCSO could bypass the State constitutional spending limit"
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He’s Tucson’s ‘mushroom man.’ The feds may deport him over paperwork Hernan Castro has a big following among Arizona mushroom enthusiasts. He's been in federal lockup since late May.

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Federal judge smacks Trump admin for bogarting Tucson murder suspect The Trump administration has refused to hand over a murder suspect facing charges in Tucson. A judge now says it has to.

Federal judge smacks Trump admin for bogarting Tucson murder suspect
Score one for Laura Conover
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So much for federalism, much less posse comitatus. "Trump deploys troops to Portland, authorizing ‘full force’ if necessary" wapo.st/4pKK5pq

As a resident of #Portland it is impossible to capture how unhinged this is. We are a low crime city and the ICE protest "siege" consists of one auxiliary ICE office that normally has at most a dozen weirdos debating what performance art they should use to block a single driveway

1 detainee dead, 2 critically wounded after shooting at Dallas ICE facility A shooter, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, killed a detainee and injured two others outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas after firing from a nearby rooftop Wedne...

What the world needs now is another Martin Luther King, Jr.
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AI will soon have a say in approving or denying Medicare treatments Taking a page from the private insurance industry’s playbook, the Trump administration will launch a program next year to find out how much money an artificial intelligence algorithm could save the fe...

AI weaponized against us www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/...

I know older people were conditioned to pick up the phone when it rings; I was well into my thirties when cell phones became ubiquitous. But that's a habit you really should unlearn.

When the phone rings, look at the caller ID. If it isn't someone in your phone directory, hit "ignore".

Murdered man’s family slams ‘shocking’ police communication failures "They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"

"They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"

Murdered man’s family slams ‘shocking’ police communication failures "They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"

"They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"
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Murdered man’s family slams ‘shocking’ police communication failures "They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"

David Denogean was murdered in 2022. Police ID'd a suspect in 2023.

No one told his family until we got the police report.

"They use that all the time: 'We dropped the ball.' That must be the department catchphrase instead of 'to serve and protect.'"

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