FROM MICHAEL LACEY Jim Larkin’s passing has torn at my heart. I knew him for over 40 years as we pursued stories across America, literally from sea to shining sea. He began a newspaper in high school; journalism was quite…
See judge’s order, here: Unprompted by the parties in the case, federal Judge Diane Humetewa suggested severing the upcoming trials of ex-Backpage owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin from their fellow defendants. In an order filed Thursday in federal court…
If Arizona State University gave degrees in gaslighting, Cindy McCain and her lackeys at ASU’s McCain Institute would have long ago earned their PhDs in public chicanery. Case in point: A recent op-ed authored by two McCain Institute flunkies and…
Today, a coalition of organizations committed to sex workers’ rights denounced an ongoing statewide media campaign by the Arizona Governor’s Office promoting a dangerous, disproven myth: that the Super Bowl serves as a magnet for sex trafficking and prostitution. In…
At the first glimpse of anti-sex work researcher Dominique Roe-Sepowitz on screen, a round of boos erupted from the audience at Tucson’s Screening Room on Friday, where they were watching a preview of director PJ Starr‘s upcoming documentary, Manifesting Monica…
Forget smoking guns. In an appellate brief filed recently at the Ninth Circuit, defense attorneys in the Lacey/Larkin case offer a series of flaming bazookas, detailing the prosecution’s unabashed intent to force the defense to move for a mistrial (and…
If you think humanity is far from the days of burning witches and examining animal innards for omens, check out the Jan. 14 edition of cable news show Dan Abrams Live, in which veteran TV reporter Dan Abrams interviews former California…
She’d known all along. Cindy, Senator John McCain’s widow, knew all about the infamous Epstein and, apparently, so did everyone around her. “We all knew about him. We all knew what he was doing,” said McCain. WAIT A SECOND. Cindy…
Multimillionaire beer heiress Cindy McCain doesn’t have to work for a living, leaving her plenty of time to travel the world spreading misinformation and hysteria about human trafficking. The latest stop on Cindy’s Moral Panic Express? Salt Lake City, for…
Give Arizona’s brewski queen her due, Cindy McCain knows how to goose a yarn, even when the tale’s taller than the Philadephia ’76ers’ Serbian center Boban Marjanovic. During an interview with Washington Post reporter Roxanne Roberts for a glowing profile…
