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

• THE STEALTH IRAQI

  published May 18, 1995

  Jawad Hashim raises his chin slightly, looking directly into the video camera recording his statement. Droves of lawyers hover. They all want... More >>

• PAYING OUR RESIDUESDECADES AFTER MASSIVE PESTICIDE APPLICATIONS, DDE IS STILL SHOWING UP IN DAIRY PRODUCTS

  published May 11, 1995

  Thirty-seven years ago, state and federal agriculture officials launched a massive attack on the pink bollworm, spraying the powerful insecticide... More >>

• HAVE WE COMMITTED A "VEGGIE HATE CRIME"?

  published May 11, 1995

  The heavy spraying of DDT and its impact on dairy herds is well-known to Arizona farmers, but not to the public. And a new law passed by the... More >>

• WANNA BUY A $70 MILLION LAKE?SALES-TAX-BACKED BONDS WILL JUMP-START TEMPE'S STALLED RIO SALADO PROJECT

  published April 27, 1995

  Flush with millions of dollars of surplus tax revenue, Tempe will soon place a $70 million bet that developers will flock to its long-sought Rio... More >>

• WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

  published April 20, 1995

  Gary Giordano is convinced that a decadelong grand conspiracy involving the most powerful business and political interests in the state is finally... More >>

• FOULING THE POOL

  published April 6, 1995

  Fast. Extremely fast. Wide lanes. Deep gutters. No waves. Perfect water temperature. And most important: clean... More >>

• ANATOMY OF A GREASED BID

  published March 16, 1995

  Months before a lucrative state contract was offered for public bid, Governor Fife Symington and former top aide George Leckie conspired with an... More >>

• POLICE PROBE PLANNING PANEL

  published March 9, 1995

  The normally sleepy Deer Valley Village Planning Committee has become a whirlwind of political intrigue that pits current and former members... More >>

• VILLAGE OF THE DAMMED

  published February 23, 1995

  Harvey Howell, a ranch hand for most of his adult life, lives in the middle of the quiet vastness of the Coconino Plateau, a high desert... More >>

• UNION NUKED AT PALO VERDENLRB FILES COMPLAINT OVER CONTRACTOR'S REFUSAL TO HIRE UNIONISTS

  published February 16, 1995

  For 15 years, Linda Hayes had the mettle to toil as an ironworker at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station. She was there in 1980,... More >>

• TAKING A QUACK AT PUBLIC RELATIONSTALKING DEAD DUCKS AT THE PALO VERDE NUCLEAR PLANT

  published February 2, 1995

  The two-lane asphalt road stretches southward across the desert, eerily blending at the horizon with three steam plumes that surge 2,000... More >>

• CHARITABLE TAKING THE ARIZONA DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY EATS UP 95 PERCENT OF ITS BUDGET WITH SALARIES AND OVERHEAD. CANCER VICTIMS GET THE LEFTOVER CRUMBS.

  published January 26, 1995

  Jerry Brock slowly leans over and to his right, stretching slightly to reach the candy jar stashed behind his office desk. Very... More >>

• FEDS PROBING COUNTY BOND SALES

  published January 12, 1995

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether Maricopa County's massive budget deficit precipitated a series of... More >>

• LET THE SWEATER BEWARE

  published January 12, 1995

  Ruth Brown joined LA Fitness Sports Club last spring expecting to regularly exercise in the pleasant surroundings of the spacious and... More >>

• AN ENTERPRISING DEFENDANT

  published January 5, 1995

  When we last checked on Dean Mark Brewer, he was sitting in Maricopa County Jail on $314,000 bail, charged with 132 counts of theft in... More >>