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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2002 Stories by John Dougherty

• Unlikely Unabomber

  published December 19, 2002

  A lawyer for a man accused of plotting to kill Sheriff Joe Arpaio will use the entrapment defense to challenge what was one of the top county... More >>

• Drinking Buddies

  published December 12, 2002

  Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson's raucous nightclub on South Seventh Avenue quietly won an unusual reprieve last month from the state... More >>

• Polygamy Puzzle

  published October 24, 2002

  The author of a purported Attorney General's Office memo describing widespread criminal activity in the polygamous community of Colorado City... More >>

• Cover-Up (Arizona Attorney General internal memo)

  published October 3, 2002

  Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano's office is covering up information documenting extensive and ongoing criminal activity including rape,... More >>

• Getting the Shaft

  published October 3, 2002

  FLAGSTAFF -- A decade-long, high-stakes financial and environmental struggle that stretches from a 1,000-year-old Hopi village to Southern... More >>

• Hookin' for Dollars

  published August 29, 2002

  Candy Gail Wilson knows how to work the street. The prominent Scottsdale businesswoman long ago mastered the art of manipulating emotions to... More >>

• Triple Crown?

  published August 15, 2002

  It could be the perfect location for the Arizona Cardinals football stadium. There's plenty of parking already built. Most of the site is... More >>

• Smoke Signal

  published July 4, 2002

  WHITERIVER — The Rodeo-Chediski fire has inflicted a blow upon the White Mountain Apache more powerful than death itself. The... More >>

• Romancing the Genome

  published June 6, 2002

  Richard Mallery is a master of the art of the deal. A Fullbright Scholar and Stanford Law graduate, Mallery is entranced with the power of... More >>

• Guard Slack

  published May 23, 2002

  Phoenix aviation department officials are considering canceling an $800,000-a-year contract for a security services company owned by Phoenix city... More >>

• Crack Addicts, Political Shenanigans and Indian Relics

  published May 9, 2002

  David Therrien had a simple proposal for real estate developer Dixon "Duke" Cowley. In July 2000, Therrien says he approached Cowley seeking... More >>

• Wily Coyote

  published April 25, 2002

  The Spike has tried for years to get Phoenix Coyotes owner Steve Ellman to return phone calls about his wily financial maneuvers... More >>

• On Guard

  published April 4, 2002

  Department of Public Safety Sergeant Rudy Buck is truly an army of one. Buck has the impossible assignment of making sure the thousands of... More >>

• Exalted Ruler

  published March 28, 2002

  At 1:35a.m. on a hot July night last summer, an undercover state liquor agent shelled out $7 to a doorman named Willie to gain access through the... More >>

• Caught Off Guard

  published March 28, 2002

  Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson's private security business is under state investigation for sending unlicensed security guards to Sky... More >>

• National Football Cartel

  published January 31, 2002

  It's Super Bowl weekend, and, as usual, the Arizona Cardinals are nowhere near the playing field. Despite the absence of their team, Cardinals... More >>

• Un-Urban Development

  published January 31, 2002

  The possibility of locating a third major sports venue in downtown Phoenix is triggering opposition from a loose coalition of artists, historic... More >>