Email Author John Dougherty

Awards

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published July 27, 2006

  “Scammer From the Slammer”

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published July 20, 2006

  “No Power for the Powerless”

• 2007 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published April 27, 2006

  “Cash Cabal”

• 2006 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Polygamy in Arizona"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Polygamy in Arizona"

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1994 Stories by John Dougherty

• MURDERING THE TRUTH

  published December 29, 1994

  As the centerpiece of a high-profile investigative series, the Arizona Republic published a story suggesting Arizona Boys Ranch employees had... More >>

• BUYING A GILA MONSTER

  published November 24, 1994

  Just a couple of miles north of Interstate 8, where the freeway cuts through some of southwest Arizona's harshest desert, lies a narrow... More >>

• THE BEST OF FIFE

  published November 3, 1994

  As election day nears, so dawns the realization that by this time next week, we might not have Governor J. Fife Symington III to kick around... More >>

• A NEW CHAPTER IN THE ESPLANADE SAGA

  published November 3, 1994

  Last spring, the state's largest daily newspaper launched an expensive legal challenge to force the federal Resolution Trust Corporation to unseal... More >>

• COURT OF NO RESORT

  published October 20, 1994

  While Tempe attorney Barbara Ross was preparing to represent a client in a civil trial, her former husband was busy, too. He was quietly... More >>

• MANUFACTURING GOOD WILL

  published September 29, 1994

  "Here we go!" exclaims Phoenix Mayor Thelda Williams, cutting a yellow ribbon and watching it flutter to her feet. Ribbon... More >>

• THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

  published September 29, 1994

  These are troubled times for University of Arizona astronomers. Their 15-year effort to build a $200 million, seven-telescope... More >>

• CIGNA NURSES A GRUDGE

  published September 22, 1994

  The calls started rolling in early last Thursday morning. CIGNA employees were calling to say that someone had emptied the New... More >>

• WARNING CIGNA

  published September 15, 1994

  La Donna Sell was talking to her son when she set down the phone to answer the door. Suddenly, she fell to the floor, as one spasm after... More >>

• VENERABLE VULNERABLE

  published September 8, 1994

  Guided by moonlight, we easily slide through a seam in the chain-link fence surrounding the property and head for the back door of the grand old... More >>

• A LAME DUCK IN HOT WATER

  published August 11, 1994

  John Thul walks to the back of his nearly completed $8 million sheet-metal-stamping plant and gazes at the undeveloped rangeland stretching for... More >>

• FOLLOWING THE MONEYA NEW COURT FILING CLAIMS DEAN BREWER LOOTED CHARTER TITLE VERY THOROUGHLY, INDEED

  published August 4, 1994

  It was New Year's Eve 1991. And Dean Brewer wanted a little cash. Like he had so many times before, Brewer tapped into Charter Title Agency... More >>

• SHAME AND FORTUNE

  published July 7, 1994

  Towering trees line the twisting country lane leading to the top of Seminary Ridge in the horse country of Lutherville, Maryland. At the crest... More >>

• SORRY, YOU'VE BEEN RE-ENGINEEREDPALO VERDE LAYS OFF HUNDREDS, OUSTS UNION TRADESMEN, IN STREAMLINING EFFORT

  published June 22, 1994

  Arizona Public Service Company is quietly laying off hundreds of workers at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station and replacing 200 union... More >>

• THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULDN'T

  published June 8, 1994

  Operating problems continue to mount at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. It seems Arizona Public Service Company engineers have had... More >>

• MONITOR LAGGARDS

  published June 8, 1994

  When it comes to collecting samples of airborne radioactive dust, more is not merrier for the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. Internal... More >>

• SECRETS OF THE PALO VERDE INN

  published June 1, 1994

  Early last Wednesday morning, a determined caravan of workers from Arizona Public Service Company trundled into the dusty, decrepit desert town of... More >>

• BOY, IS ED'S FACE SCARLETAGENCY DIRECTOR SOLVES PROBLEM, REVIEWS LITERATURE IN ONE AMAZING MEMO

  published May 11, 1994

  A management crisis is sweeping the rank and file at the state Department of Environmental Quality. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with... More >>

• THE NUKE GETS TAX BREAKS WHILE THE COUNTY FLOUNDERS

  published April 27, 1994

  An illustration of an atom is one of the four symbols emblazoned on Maricopa County's official government seal. It is there to reflect the... More >>

• DANGEROUS GAMES, YOUR MONEYA NEW TIMES INVESTIGATION

  published April 27, 1994

  Early last year, then-Maricopa County manager Roy Pederson found himself sitting across the table from two men who are not easily lost in the... More >>

• TOTALLY GROWTHIN PRESCOTT, ANTIDEVELOPMENT FORCES GO ON THE OFFENSIVE

  published April 13, 1994

  Prescott is in an uproar because its own Chamber of Commerce motto, "Everybody's Hometown," is coming to pass. The problem is, not all residents... More >>

• TRADE SECRETS

  published March 30, 1994

  Last October was crunch time for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ross Perot had been babbling about sucking sounds. No one knew whether... More >>

• TRADE SECRETS

  published March 30, 1994

  Last October was crunch time for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ross Perot had been babbling about sucking sounds. No one knew whether... More >>

• TRADE SECRETS

  published March 30, 1994

  Last October was crunch time for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ross Perot had been babbling about sucking sounds. No one knew whether... More >>

• TRADE SECRETS

  published March 30, 1994

  Last October was crunch time for the North American Free Trade Agreement. Ross Perot had been babbling about sucking sounds. No one knew whether... More >>