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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1996 Stories by John Dougherty

• The Mexican Connection

  published December 26, 1996

  The taxi comes to a halt on a two-lane paved road bisecting Villa Juarez, a bustling, peasant farming town in the heart of one of Mexico's most... More >>

• Might He Be Innocent

  published November 14, 1996

  O.J., DeLorean, North -- and Symington? At first blush, the federal government's 23-count criminal indictment against Arizona Governor J.... More >>

• The U.S. Forage Service

  published October 31, 1996

  There's not much to sustain life--water, grass or other feed--on the eastern flank of the Four Peaks Wilderness Area, 60 miles east of... More >>

• Children of Synanon

  published October 10, 1996

  The story sounds diabolical. For more than a decade, a Tucson nonprofit drug-treatment center called Amity, Inc., had slowly developed a... More >>

• An Accounting Nightmare

  published September 26, 1996

  Last Friday's settlement between the Big 6 accounting firm of Coopers & Lybrand and federal prosecutors delivers a powerful legal blow to Governor... More >>

• Snaking Away

  published September 19, 1996

  Volunteers: Expect to spend 5 plus hours/day radio-tracking and 8 hours searching for (rattle)snakes. Field conditions and work loads are... More >>

• Official Secrecy Acts

  published September 5, 1996

  Governor J. Fife Symington III is all but surrounded. Creditors who allege he committed fraud are seeking to prevent him from erasing $25... More >>

• Thomson Grabs Cox

  published August 29, 1996

  Times have long been tough at the Valley's No. 2 daily newspaper chain, the East Valley's Tribune Newspapers. They may be about to get... More >>

• Fire in the Nuke

  published August 8, 1996

  Two fires at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station earlier this year have once again raised safety concerns at the nation's largest nuclear... More >>

• One That Got Away?

  published August 1, 1996

  Nearly three years after state regulators discovered $8.1 million missing from Charter Title Company escrow accounts, the company's former owner... More >>

• It's My Courtroom, and I'll Try Like I Want To

  published July 25, 1996

  In the drab Cochise County office building that houses his courtroom, Judge Ramon R. Alvarez is having a discussion in chambers. Courtroom decorum... More >>

• The Chubby Grocer Lashes Out

  published July 11, 1996

  Suddenly, Eddie Basha is mincing no words. The East Valley grocer lost his 1994 gubernatorial race against Governor J. Fife Symington III... More >>

• $285,000 Points of Light

  published June 27, 1996

  George Leckie's fund-raising expertise helped put J. Fife Symington III in the Governor's Office. Leckie is once again seeking donations, but this... More >>

• The Governor and the Lawyer

  published June 20, 1996

  Aftershocks from Governor J. Fife Symington III's 23-count federal indictment are shaking foundations at the state's most powerful law firm. ... More >>

• An Indictment Primer

  published June 20, 1996

  At 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, June 13, the sound from four knocks on the inside of a wooden door bounced down a long hallway on the seventh floor of... More >>

• Slow Strokes

  published June 13, 1996

  Long Beach, California. The 1976 Olympic swimming trials. Hoisting his 20-month-old son above his head, Gary Hall swims a victory lap and salutes... More >>

• Tapering to the Peak

  published June 13, 1996

  Competitive swimming at its highest levels contains a certain measure of magic. Superpowered performances happen only when a great number of... More >>

• Honey, Would You Pass the Money?

  published June 6, 1996

  Although Governor J. Fife Symington III and his wife, Ann, claim to maintain separate assets, Arizona's first couple frequently commingled... More >>

• Governor Deposed

  published May 30, 1996

  Governor J. Fife Symington III was backed into a corner. Confronted with evidence that he deceived his lenders--and Arizona voters--about his... More >>

• Scrum of the Earth

  published May 23, 1996

  It was a tired and hoarse group of fellows that boarded an early evening Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Phoenix a few Sundays... More >>

• Feds Target Fife's Lawyers

  published May 23, 1996

  The state's largest law firm has been dragged into the federal criminal investigation of Governor J. Fife Symington III's finances. ... More >>

• Locked in Masquerade

  published May 16, 1996

  One simple fact has gone unmentioned during the recent furor about the overcrowding crisis at Arizona's juvenile corrections facilities: The... More >>

• For Their Eyes Only

  published May 2, 1996

  Governor J. Fife Symington III's Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is moving further from the public eye with each passing week. Agreements to seal... More >>

• Parking Mirage

  published April 25, 1996

  It took only a few minutes for the Phoenix City Council to deliver what some would consider a $40 million gift to the growing empire of Phoenix... More >>

• Park Rancher

  published April 18, 1996

  The afternoon sunlight glimmers across Wet Beaver Creek as kingfishers squawk and swoop, angry about an intrusion. A wide cattle trail soon... More >>