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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1992 Stories by Michael Lacey

• THE PURSUIT OF PAT CANTELME

  published December 30, 1992

  Amid the spectacle of Arizona's notorious law enforcement sting, AzScam, the most chilling facet of the undercover operation remains unobserved by... More >>

• THAT MUST HAVE BEEN ONE TOUGH PARAPLEGIC

  published November 4, 1992

  I wanted to see, face to face, what kind of punks attack and beat a wheelchair-bound paraplegic. There were two of them, a hatchet-faced piece... More >>

• IN CHINA, NO RIGHTS TO LIFE

  published September 23, 1992

  The man from China sat in his chair and wept. Thousands of miles from his homeland, Quan Lu had been answering questions in an airless room in... More >>

• WHAT ABOUT THE FAMILY VALUE OF BROTHERLY LOVE?

  published September 2, 1992

  Pastor Fred Pettison moved his congregation to midtown Phoenix after his church on the south side was destroyed by a fire bomb. These things... More >>

• THE GOVERNOR'S 800-POUND GORILLA

  published July 29, 1992

  Last month the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour devoted a segment to Arizona. The idea of the broadcast, loosely speaking, was to discuss the sheer wonder... More >>

• ROOTING FOR THE NEWS

  published May 13, 1992

  The romantic mirage of small-town life is bucolic contentment. This is one of life's sadder delusions. In remote Arizona, the disputes are... More >>

• ROOTING FOR THE NEWS

  published May 13, 1992

  That's certainly one viewpoint. But it ignores entirely the faculty's feeling that its members had no say in campus matters. And Dr.... More >>

• ON THE ENEMIES LIST

  published May 6, 1992

  Here's an interesting way to begin your day. Lie awake in bed before the sun comes up thinking about explaining to the woman who cares for... More >>

• A BUNCH OF NAME-DROPPERS

  published April 15, 1992

  Over a period of time, I have become more than just skeptical of County Attorney Richard Romley and his partner in the AzScam sting,... More >>

• A WORD TO THE WISE: DON'T GET SICK

  published April 1, 1992

  On April 15, Leona Helmsley will report to prison. One of those desperate dowagers who wipes on the cosmetics with a catcher's mitt, the... More >>

• THE BUS STOPS HERE

  published January 29, 1992

  Abraham Cox, a precocious 7-year-old, attends a progressive school in Tempe. On this particular Friday evening, inside Tanner Chapel A.M.E.,... More >>