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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1994 Stories by Michael Lacey

• THE HIGH PRICE OF HEROISM

  published December 29, 1994

  The two men walked into the Subway sandwich shop with their weapons hidden. Both carried large, serious knives and they demanded all the... More >>

• INSURANCE COMPANIES WANT TO WRONG OUR RIGHTS

  published November 3, 1994

  After a certain age, you don't get weepy over country-music laments or wonder at the integrity of politicians. But even if you've got the... More >>

• SLEEPLESS IN PHOENIX

  published November 3, 1994

  It's 3 a.m. What were only minor problems in the daylight are nightmares in the dark. Who can sleep with thoughts closing in like... More >>

• THE POLICE STRANGLEHOLD ON ED MALLET'S FIANCEE

  published October 13, 1994

  The chairs in the dirt yard are draped with children openly eyeing me. They are too young and innocent to bother masking their... More >>

• WHY THIS YOUNG MAN'S DEATH MATTERS

  published August 11, 1994

  He is dead and he is cremated, but the tragedy of Michael Despain's short, troubled life is not over. In death, Michael has achieved an awful... More >>

• TO THE COPS, SOME CRIMES JUST SEEM LESS IMPORTANT THAN OTHERS

  published July 28, 1994

  When the flames from the arson fire were put out last month, investigators discovered human remains in the upstairs bedroom. While dental records... More >>

• CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY AND DEDICATED TO WHAT?

  published July 7, 1994

  Jeffery Lynn Blain, at 37, has heard more than one man's share of bad news, yet he does not give in to self-pity or succumb to depression. He... More >>

• THE LIFE BEHIND A RACIAL MISTAKE

  published June 8, 1994

  Nothing like it has ever occurred in Arizona. Last Thursday, Judge Stanley Goodfarb stood in a courtroom, stripped of the familiar comfort he... More >>

• SHE WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS

  published February 2, 1994

  Thanks to a breach in Governor Fife Symington's security, I now know the nature of his executive secretary's testimony before the grand jury last... More >>

• OPEN RECORDS PREVENT A POLICE STATE

  published January 26, 1994

  I look at police files for a living. So I've got a problem with a proposed State House bill that would lock up those reports. And because the... More >>

• OPEN RECORDS PREVENT A POLICE STATE

  published January 26, 1994

  I look at police files for a living. So I've got a problem with a proposed State House bill that would lock up those reports. And because the... More >>

• OPEN RECORDS PREVENT A POLICE STATE

  published January 26, 1994

  I look at police files for a living. So I've got a problem with a proposed State House bill that would lock up those reports. And because the... More >>