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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1995 Stories by John Dougherty

• When Revolution Meets Reality

  published December 28, 1995

  When congressional Republicans explain their ambitious plan for reforming the federal government--the Contract With America--they often use state... More >>

• First Interstate Blank Check

  published December 14, 1995

  First Interstate Bank cut Governor J.Fife Symington III two generous deals on more than $3 million in overdue loans, despite having evidence that... More >>

• Sentence: 90 Days of Pain

  published December 7, 1995

  The .38-caliber "snake shot" ripped into the back of Bayard Horton's left hand on that night in August, leaving more than 50 metallic pellets... More >>

• A No-Refund Policy

  published November 23, 1995

  A ttorney General Grant Woods failed to force Governor J. Fife Symington III's 1994 reelection campaign committee to refund excess contributions... More >>

• Fif'e Slow Dance With Debt

  published November 9, 1995

  Debt has long been an addiction of Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington III. Symington's fondness for borrowing dates back more than 23... More >>

• A Sitting Duck

  published November 9, 1995

  Governor J. Fife Symington III's personal financial statements submitted during his sworn debtor's exam October 31 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court are so... More >>

• Countdown to Indictment?

  published October 26, 1995

  With bankruptcy hearings on one side, and a federal criminal indictment looming ever closer on the other, Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington III's... More >>

• Phoenix's Freebie for Fife

  published October 19, 1995

  The City of Phoenix turned a blind eye to Governor J. Fife Symington III's financial troubles by failing for more than two years to demand... More >>

• Collateral Damage

  published October 12, 1995

  Governor J. Fife Symington III apparently prepared conflicting financial statements in 1990--one showing that he personally controlled blue-chip... More >>

• Kickback Story Irks Symington

  published October 12, 1995

  Governor Fife Symington threatened to sue New Times last week over a story stating that he had paid a kickback in connection with a $10 million... More >>

• PAYING THE PIPERA KICKBACK RAISES NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT SYMINGTON AND THE MERCADO

  published October 5, 1995

  A partnership headed by J. Fife Symington III made an apparently illegal payment to a pension fund investment manager who agreed to make a $10... More >>

• A HISTORY OF FAILURE

  published October 5, 1995

  Fife Symington's partnership with Chicanos Por La Causa to build the Mercado retail and office center in downtown Phoenix was hailed by community... More >>

• CITY COMPLICITYPHOENIX'S CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL DID THEIR SHARE TO KEEP VOTERS FROM HAVING A VOICE IN STADIUM

  published September 28, 1995

  Remember Jim Bruner? He chaired the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and cast the deciding vote in February 1994 to impose a $238 million... More >>

• THE HOUSE THAT YOU BUILT

  published September 21, 1995

  Let's daydream for a minute. It's opening day, 1998. Nearly 50,000 fans are tightly packed into Bank One Ballpark's dark green seats,... More >>

• A TRIM FOR WELLTON-MOHAWKIN A VICTORY FOR ECOLOGISTS, FEDS DENY FUNDS FOR IRRIGATION DISTRICT'S GILA RIVER CHANNEL

  published August 31, 1995

  Environmentalists fighting to restore a stretch of the lower Gila River to its historic biological splendor have found an unlikely ally in the... More >>

• INSIDE INFORMATIONDEFEATED ARIZONA POL CREATES NATIONAL VOTER DATA CENTER

  published August 24, 1995

  Nine years ago, U.S. Senate candidate Richard Kimball implored Arizona journalists to "follow the money" that was flowing into his opponent's... More >>

• HAVE A NICE TRIPDEADHEADS MAKE ONE MORE PILGRIMAGE--TO SAY GOODBYE

  published August 23, 1995

  It's time to hit the road. One last time. Calls are made. Entanglements broken. The appointed time for departure comes and goes. A... More >>

• WINDFALL FOR ACCIDENT VICTIMSRULING OPENS DOOR FOR ADDITIONAL CLAIMS AGAINST INSURERS--AND HIGHER PREMIUMS

  published August 23, 1995

  An obscure state Supreme Court ruling may allow auto accident victims to collect additional large settlements from their insurance carriers. ... More >>

• THE MACKING OF A MYSTERYGRAHAM COUNTY SHERIFF RICHARD MACK'S INVESTIGATORS MADE SO MANY MISTAKES THAT NO ONE MAY EVER KNOW HOW STEPHANIE PROFFITT DIED

  published August 10, 1995

  It was a new moon, so the desert was dark and shadowless on that warm mid-August night two years ago. A little after 3:15 a.m., a Ford... More >>

• ANALYSIS:SLIM PICKINGS AG'S PROJECT SLIM PROBE HASN'T TARGETED SYMINGTON, DESPITE EVIDENCE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT

  published July 20, 1995

  Given the opportunity last week to go head-to-head with Governor Fife Symington, Attorney General Grant Woods flinched. Not only did... More >>

• SEIZE AND DESTROY OMISSIONADOT LETS VANDALS STRIP HUNDREDS OF CONDEMNED HOMES IN PARKWAY CORRIDOR

  published July 13, 1995

  It's Dumpster-diving paradise. And the best thing is you don't have to dive into a smelly garbage can. Thanks to lax security by... More >>

• NONE DARE CALL IT REASONARIZONA IS A HOTBED OF CONSTITUTIONALIST DISSENT, AND HERE ARE FOUR WHO FUEL THE PATRIOT FLAME

  published July 6, 1995

  It didn't take long for the investigation of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building to wind its way back to the nation's 48th... More >>

• JERRY-RIGGEDCONTRARY TO WHAT HE TOLD THE COUNTY, COLANGELO IS PREDICTING STRONG, EARLY PROFITS FOR BASEBALL INVESTORS

  published June 22, 1995

  Will Jerry Colangelo and the Arizona Diamondbacks struggle to make a buck in their new, taxpayer-financed stadium? Or will they turn a huge profit... More >>

• STADIUM STANDOFFDOWNTOWN PROPERTY OWNERS WON'T GO WITHOUT A FIGHT--OR BETTER PRICES FROM THE STADIUM DISTRICT

  published June 8, 1995

  Land owners inside the downtown stadium site say their properties can't be condemned because the facility is being built to benefit private... More >>

• A FAKE IN THE LIFEFOR DRAMA'S SAKE, NPR NEWS EMBELLISHES A PHOENIX POLICE DISPATCHER'S WORKDAY

  published June 1, 1995

  "It's a new day," Phoenix Police Department 911 operator Tracy Lorenzano tells millions of people listening to National Public Radio's popular,... More >>