Email Author Robert Nelson

Awards

• 2006 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 24, 2005

  "Cross to Bare"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published October 13, 2005

  "Mold Attacks!"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 7, 2005

  "Altar Ego"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published August 25, 2005

  "Hardball"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published April 21, 2005

  "About Face"

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2001 Stories by Robert Nelson

• Lab Rats

  published December 20, 2001

  TUCSON -- First there was a Harvard, then came a "Harvard of the South," a "Harvard of the Midwest" and a "Harvard of the Plains."Indeed, great... More >>

• Peacenik Nazis

  published November 29, 2001

  The phone message instructed me to call a different number if I was a member of the "Jew media."Considering his worldview, Matt Hale probably... More >>

• Fan Fare

  published November 8, 2001

  My 9-year-old son, Andrew, covered his eyes as the bottom of the ninth inning began Sunday night. I sunk into the couch and looked toward the... More >>

• News From Left Field

  published November 1, 2001

  Yankees are angels, Diamondbacks are terrorists, Giuliani says NEW YORK -- Faced with flagging national support for his "Yankees Are... More >>

• Schmidt Happens

  published September 20, 2001

  Mad dog publicist and unsavory martyr David Hans Schmidt is free at last, free at last. Schmidt was released from county jail just before... More >>

• Big Bong Theory

  published September 13, 2001

  Welcome to metro Phoenix, or as we like to call it, Amsterzona, the desert dope oasis where vacationers can enjoy super-sized Quad Ganja Lattes... More >>

• Contract Killers

  published August 23, 2001

  In 1989, CIGNA Healthcare of Arizona informed policyholders it would no longer cover long-term speech and physical therapy. Three-year-old Ryan... More >>

• Pay Back

  published August 23, 2001

  In late June, David Hans Schmidt placed a birthday card on the grave of his infant son Ben, who died eight years ago at birth.A month later,... More >>

• Spleen Man

  published July 26, 2001

  David Hans Schmidt cackles gleefully every time he sees the 13-inch surgical scar down the belly of Jefferson Davis McGee.It's just such a... More >>

• Taco Belle

  published July 12, 2001

  Margarite Faras tried to fight the endemic corruption in the tribal government of the San Carlos Apache. For her effort, her political enemies... More >>

• Judge Knot

  published June 28, 2001

  As one of Arizona's most influential lobbyists and business leaders, Marty Shultz isn't accustomed to getting his political butt kicked. In... More >>

• Care Tactics

  published May 24, 2001

  Nikos Michas was only 5 when his father left town. From then on, it was just Nikos and his mother Alyce against the world.Alyce spent as much... More >>

• Highway to Hell

  published May 17, 2001

  Rayann could stay mad at anybody in her life except Brandon O'Bier. Brandon had this sweet cowboy plain talk and unbowable optimism and screwball... More >>

• Unrung Heroes

  published May 10, 2001

  If the alt-fuel program is the great hurricane of bureaucratic snafus, the state's on-call employment policy is at least a tropical... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's Balloon Payments

  published April 5, 2001

  Hitmen hurriedly stabbed Jaime Sanchez four times, then dashed for anonymity among the other inmates on the sixth floor of Madison Street... More >>

• Web Feat

  published March 15, 2001

  Joe Arpaio has been trying to shut Jim Cozzolino up for the last two years. Last week, the sheriff finally found a way to do it.On March 7,... More >>

• Shock Treatment

  published February 22, 2001

  The three fundamental C's of Arizona -- copper, cotton and cattle -- have a new partner. California power.Twenty massive power plants are under... More >>

• Power Trip

  published February 22, 2001

  Arizona's first merchant plant will fire up this summer near Kingman. If this plant is any indicator of things to come, Arizona is in deep... More >>

• Whistle Stops

  published February 22, 2001

  Accusations of subterfuge and sabotage are once again swirling around proposed legislation to improve Arizona's whistle-blower protection for its... More >>

• Council Fires

  published February 1, 2001

  The San Carlos Apache Tribal Council, famous throughout Indian country for the frequency of its political meltdowns, has apparently started the... More >>

• Dorm Warning

  published January 25, 2001

  ASU's Manzanita residence hall is a 15-story salute to the wondrous versatility of duct tape.The tape is two and three layers thick on ducts... More >>

• Par Tee On!

  published January 18, 2001

  Being a responsible college student, Larsh Kellogg generally avoided getting drunk before noon on weekdays.But really special occasions... More >>