maricopa

Andrew Thomas for what they did (and in Arpaio's case, is still doing) to indigent defendants in Maricopa county.

So you don’t have a supply issue in maricopa city (which is a whole separate water district..

In Maricopa County, each city has discretion to operate a system of circulators or shuttles.

Too often, political pressure leads to overzealous enforcement of criminal statutes, not reasoned enforcement (see, e.g., Maricopa County).

Also a prosecutor could face disbarment and then political repercussions which is what happened in Arizona to Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas.

Stephen Richer has many great tweet threads showing how the Maricopa system works.

In the primaries, it made Washtenaw County MI look like Maricopa County.

What 51% of voters in Maricopa County apparently want is unacceptable.

Aranda is a janitorial supervisor at the Maricopa County courthouses.

Getting onto my hobby horse: The Pima and Maricopa tribes were able to create massive agricultural surpluses from pre-Columbian times to the early 19th century thanks to the Salt River.

In 2024 in Maricopa County, AZ we had a two page ballot because the legislature added 20+ initiatives to try and implement laws the governor had vetoed.

I'd prefer some of them have nothing more deadly than a water pistol (especially the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office - headed by the country's most corrupt un-indicted law enforcement official).

Ct., Maricopa Cty.): "The court noted that the relief plaintiff sought—an additional hand count of ballots—was not legally available due to the suit’s numerous procedural defects.

The author dismisses 905M gallons in Maricopa County as "only 0.12%" of county use, but in a desert already overdrawing groundwater, that's 905M gallons unavailable for human needs.

> The author dismisses 905M gallons in Maricopa County as "only 0.12%" of county use, but in a desert already overdrawing groundwater, that's 905M gallons unavailable for human needs.

If criminals picked jurisdictions based on criminal justice systems, presumably there would have been pretty much no crime in places like Maricopa County, Arizona under "Sherrif Joe", but as it happens criminals rarely appear to weigh the impact of getting caught very much.

I'm hesitant to name names, though; if you're curious, and you can find a public court registry (most canadian provinces have them online), start looking up the names of the current or former chiefs of police, wardens (Maricopa County, AZ is great for this).