Email Author Amy Silverman

Awards

• 2012 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published January 20, 2011

  "Unbalanced"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Shadow Dwellers"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - National Mental Health Association Media Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published November 5, 2009

  "Losing Erica"

• 2010 - Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, published October 8, 2009

  "Saving Alex"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 17, 2009

  "Suicidal Tendencies"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published September 11, 2008

  "Mommy Dearest"

• 2009 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published August 7, 2008

  "Postmodern McCain"

• 2009 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published October 16, 2008

  "Love the War, Neglect the Warrior"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 7, 2008

  "Postmodern McCain"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 14, 2008

  "The Daily Show"

• 2007 - National Council on Crime and Delinquency/Prevention for a Safer Society Award, published November 2, 2006

  "Teenage Wasteland"

• 2006 - Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards, published November 25, 2004

  "Up the Down Staircase"

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1997 Stories by Amy Silverman

• Sandra D-Minus

  published December 18, 1997

  Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools Sandra Dowling used county staff to help research and write papers for her master's degree and to work... More >>

• Hee-Haw Politics

  published December 4, 1997

  The old Democrat answers the phone at state party headquarters. He takes a message for party chairman Mark Fleischer. Ask Fleischer, says... More >>

• Jafet Coronado's Good Samaritan

  published November 13, 1997

  Samaritan will be the pre-eminent nonprofit healthcare system in the Southwest. --from Samaritan Health System's Mission Statement The... More >>

• A Fine Mess

  published October 9, 1997

  In his first State of the State address in 1992, Governor J. Fife Symington III--as new chief executives are wont to do--anointed himself the... More >>

• Best of Fife Vol. II

  published September 11, 1997

  Editor's note: In 1994, New Times printed Volume I of "The Best of Fife." The New and Improved Volume II incorporates the best of... More >>

• Board Games

  published August 28, 1997

  The governing board of the Maricopa County Regional School District convenes monthly. A quorum call is never necessary. And no one ever... More >>

• DONKS!

  published July 24, 1997

  Brian Dickerson and Lyle Miller own a dog. The two men moved in together four years ago, and the Dalmatian puppy was a birthday gift from... More >>

• Is Motorola Harboring Diversity or Disrespect?

  published June 19, 1997

  In the summer of 1993, Motorola's Scottsdale-based Government Systems Technology Group treated its employees to an in-house video. Along with... More >>

• The Pampered Politician

  published May 15, 1997

  Journalist Michael Lewis may be the supreme cynic in an age of press cynicism. His aloofness for political hoopla set the tone of his coverage of... More >>

• Prosecutors Change Their Minds

  published May 8, 1997

  In a 180-degree turnaround, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has decided to prosecute a man who allegedly raped, beat and choked Kim Boyden... More >>

• Mrs. Good Retch

  published April 24, 1997

  Many states around the country have launched antitobacco campaigns, but none has captured the imagination--or turned the stomachs--of television... More >>

• Ascent of a Woman

  published April 17, 1997

  Early in February 1988, House Majority Whip Jane Hull paid an unofficial visit to the office of Secretary of State Rose Mofford to warn her that,... More >>

• Not Victim Enough

  published March 27, 1997

  Logan struck up a conversation with Kim Boyden, over her Stoli on the rocks and his Black Russian. The two had a lot in common. They'd both grown... More >>

• Alien Victory

  published March 13, 1997

  Oscar Fuchslocher is still behind bars at a U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service detention center in Florence, but a federal court decision... More >>

• Possessed!

  published February 13, 1997

  The cornflower-blue, kid-leather Donna Karan handbag dangles from her fingers. "I don't want it. I don't need it. I don't even particularly... More >>

• Anchor's Away, Cat's a Stray

  published February 6, 1997

  Things have gotten downright catty in June Thomson's old neighborhood. The former KSAZ-TV, Channel 10, news anchor left her home in the... More >>

• Scenes From a Slaughter

  published January 23, 1997

  For the last decade of the 116-year life of the Phoenix Gazette, staff--and, perhaps, readers--devoted far more time to conjecture on the... More >>

• Closed Door Policy

  published January 9, 1997

  Oscar Fuchslocher first came to the United States from his native Chile in 1989, as an exchange student at Ironwood High School in Glendale. He... More >>