Email Author Ray Stern

Awards

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 8, 2010

  "Gold Rush"

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 25, 2010

  "Chronic Future"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Valley Fever

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 15, 2009

  "Concrete Bungle"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  SCA Scandal

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published July 19, 2007

  "Money for Nothing"

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published May 31, 2007

  "What Happened in Vegas..."

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published May 31, 2007

  "What Happened in Vegas..."

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published February 8, 2007

  "Gotcha!"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 16, 2006

  "ICE Meltdown"

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2008 Stories by Ray Stern

• Governor yanks Arpaio's immigration funding

  published May 13, 2008

  By Ray Stern Much of the money for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's immigration-enforcement efforts lately has poured out of a special pool of state money. But New Times has learned that Governo... More >>

• Light sentence predicted for Cold Stone heiress

  published May 07, 2008

  By Ray Stern Savannah Sutherland, daughter of the founders of Cold Stone Creamery, hired top-notch attorneys after she plowed into a small motor scooter late one night while drunk, killing another wo... More >>

• Chopper Pilot Says UFOs probably balloons with flares

  published Apr 22, 2008

  By Ray Stern Red lights in the sky above Phoenix looked like flares dangling beneath helium balloons to a police helicopter pilot who was in the air last night when the sightings occurred. Phoenix p... More >>

• Air Traffic Controllers Who Saw UFO Muzzled by FAA

  published Apr 22, 2008

  By Ray Stern Air traffic controllers in the main tower of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport saw last night's bizarre spectacle of red lights flying across North Valley skies, but the Federal A... More >>

• Alternative fuels aren't solving Phoenix's air-pollution problem, and it's doubtful that they will anytime soon

  published April 17, 2008

  A few years ago, the city of Phoenix owned about 1,400 light trucks and cars that can run on compressed natural gas as part of its effort to... More >>

• Border Patrol checkpoints near Yuma nab hordes of pot users headed back from the beach

  published March 13, 2008

  The small sedan slowed as it approached the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on a deserted section of Interstate 8 east of Yuma. The car contained... More >>

• In its war for new members, a labor union is using dirty tricks to turn Hispanics against Bashas'

  published January 24, 2008

  The young labor union advocate is addressing the small crowd of immigrant neighbors in the carport like a fired-up schoolteacher. "How... More >>