Prescott has been hit by political vandalism. Sometime between late Sunday night and early Monday morning, political signs on Whipple Street near downtown Prescott were defaced with graffiti and knocked down by one or more unknown vandals. In a year of unprecedented political unrest and civil disorder across the country, Prescott has not been spared. A City
With the coronavirus spreading out of control and Arizona cities beginning just last month to require residents wear masks in public, a few hundred people gathered in Scottsdale to make clear they didn’t approve of the heavy hand of government telling them to cover their faces. A city councilman, Guy Phillips, came to the podium
“Capitalism,” the dominant economic system in the global political economy, is defined by Merriam-Webster as “an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” This is an excellent
On July 18, 2020, around 10:45 PM, YCSO was contacted about a missing 16-year-old autistic male who had separated from his hiking companion and had not been seen since 7:30 PM. The missing teen was expected to return to a trail head in the Groom Creek area, but never showed. Deputies learned the teen had
A stipulation in a Kentucky police contract prohibited officials from initially firing the officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s death in Louisville. The disciplinary history of a Chicago police officer who fatally shot Laquan McDonald had been deleted under the department’s contract, so officials didn’t know about the officer’s previous bad behavior. A Seattle officer fired
The Arizona Department of Transportation advises drivers to plan for two weeks of daily alternating lane closures and delays of approximately 30 minutes on north- and southbound State Route 89 between Ponderosa Park Road (milepost 308) and Walden Boulevard (milepost 294) while crews complete striping work. The work is scheduled from 6 a.m. to 6