Email Author Michael Lacey

Awards

• 2011 - Clarion Awards/Association of Women in Communications, published December 9, 2010

  "What's Mom Worth?"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 18, 2007

  "Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published June 16, 2005

  "Thunder Road"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 17, 2005

  "I Could Just Slap Him"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published December 29, 2005

  "Unequal Justice"

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1991 Stories by Michael Lacey

• BAG IT, BISHOP

  published December 25, 1991

  Bishop Thomas J. O'Brien, his bad purple plumpness himself, recently asked all Catholics to boycott Smitty's grocery chain because the supermarket... More >>

• FREEDOM RIDER

  published November 27, 1991

  I sat in the church pew while others discussed the dead man. It was Saturday and cool, the noon air so crisp in the desert that it didn't... More >>

• OFFICER DOWN

  published September 11, 1991

  I watched as they unloaded the shooting victims from the ambulance. One after another they were gently lowered to the pavement and then... More >>

• CAUGHT UP IN THE ACT

  published August 14, 1991

  Like a parent who has forgotten his child's name, Dr. Marc Baker tells me for the dozenth time that he is not a member of Earth First!. ... More >>

• THE EARTH'S STORM TROOPERS

  published August 7, 1991

  Ending his weeks of testimony with the sort of outburst you might expect from a witness who had Tourette's syndrome, paid FBI informant... More >>

• MEAN MISTER MUSTER

  published July 31, 1991

  After a bellyful of paid informant Ron Frazier and undercover FBI agent Michael Fain, it's possible to lose sight of what a great... More >>

• VOICES OF THE LAMBS

  published July 24, 1991

  Jane Chapman's life was wonderful. After college, there was Stanford Medical School, then she and her husband David migrated to... More >>

• FOR LOVE AND GLORY

  published July 17, 1991

  ®LS2¯Moonlight and love songs Never out of date Hearts full of passion, jealousy and hate Woman needs man and man ... More >>

• WHEN A SNITCH TAKES THE STAND

  published July 10, 1991

  There was not a sound in the courtroom as the witness identified himself. "My name is Ron Kermit Frazier." The prosecution... More >>

• THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH AND THE FBI

  published July 3, 1991

  Last week the fifteen good people in the jury box watched a parade of FBI agents step into the witness stand. This jury, like all juries,... More >>

• WHAT THE EVIDENCE WILL SHOW

  published June 26, 1991

  In Washington, D.C., a gentleman boards a jet and flies across the country to Arizona. This man is a lawyer from a city of lawyers. He is Mr.... More >>

• OF FIREBRANDS AND FILES

  published June 19, 1991

  This is where you want your children to grow up. Prescott. It is clean. It is beautiful. It is peaceful. ... More >>

• IMAGINING A

  published June 12, 1991

  Last week Owen Shackelton Jr., an investigator with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), refused to be interviewed. Referring all... More >>

• SPIES AND SAVAGES

  published June 5, 1991

  The arrest of the militant environmentalists of Earth First! on May 30, 1989, included charges of terrorism directed at nuclear power... More >>

• SABOTAGING THE SABOTEURS

  published May 29, 1991

  That rarest commodity, a saboteur with a sense of humor, wrote the Arizona media in the second week of November 1987. A letter... More >>

• A BISHOP'S ABUSE

  published May 8, 1991

  My wife's question at the dinner table gave me pause. Like everyone else, we'd been discussing the outrageous events swirling around... More >>

• INTERNAL AFFAIRS

  published May 1, 1991

  Second of a series You might say that Ambrose McCree is obsessed with the beating handed out to Rodney King by the Los Angeles... More >>

• WHO'S JIVIN' WHO?WHAT'S THE REAL STORY ON RACIAL VIOLENCE BY PHOENIX POLICE?

  published April 24, 1991

  True or false? Reverend Oscar Tillman is a civil rights opportunist in the flamboyant tradition of New York's Al Sharpton. Yes... More >>

• The Grafters

  published February 13, 1991

  Just when I was beginning to tire of CNN's coverage of "attrited" warehouses in Iraq, Phoenix Police Chief Ruben Ortega unwrapped his ... More >>

• THE KILLING FIELDS

  published February 6, 1991

  The television in the saloon was tuned to CNN as the first wave of American bombers struck Baghdad. The crowd, mostly men, gathered... More >>