Michael Lacey has spent his entire professional life in the newspaper business. With his business partner, Jim Larkin, Lacey cofounded Phoenix New Times during the Vietnam War. The two men would go on to build Village Voice Media, a chain of weeklies…
The recent publication of a hyperbolic study that purported to show an “astronomical” level of demand for sex workers in the Hawaii was punctuated by an odd incident that prompted two law-enforcement agencies to investigate. On Friday, September 21, officers…
In light of the disappearance and increasingly apparent ghastly murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of a Saudi hit squad, will the McCain Institute for International Leadership cut its ties with Saudi Arabia and divest itself of…
The authors of a recent study of “sex trafficking” in Hawaii claim that online prostitution is rampant in the Aloha State. But critics say the study’s methodology is flawed, pointing out that the authors offer zero evidence of actual sex…
A federal judge in Phoenix, Arizona, handed defendants in the Backpage case a victory on Friday, October 12, when he denied a government motion to disqualify a prestigious contingent of First Amendment attorneys from the defense team. In a ten-page…
Attorneys for veteran newspapermen Michael Lacey, Jim Larkin, and their co-defendants in the Backpage.com case jousted with federal prosecutors in Phoenix over a government motion to disqualify a team of First Amendment lawyers from the prestigious firm of Davis Wright…
