Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 3, 2011

  "Recalling Russell Pearce"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2011

  "His Own Worst Enemy"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2011

  "Kissing His Political Career Goodbye"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 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?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2013 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  Phoenix Police Department Releases Report on Shooting Death of Zachariah Pithan

  published May 22, 2013

  The Phoenix Police Department released a report Wednesday on the shooting death of 22 year-old Zachariah Pithan by a Phoenix Police Officer on April 20, an incident the report characterizes as "just... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Foe Rebecca Jimenez Leads in Guadalupe Mayoral Race (w/Update: Jimenez the Winner)

  published May 21, 2013

  Please see update below. Former Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez's camp is partying tonight, celebrating what they believe may be a win over incumbent town Mayor Yolanda Solarez. See also: -Guadalu... More >>

• After Nine Months in Jail for Working Without Papers, Luz Ruiz Rascon Finally Will Go Free

  published May 23, 2013

  It took nine months of incarceration in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's notorious Estrella Jail, but what should have happened in August of last year,... More >>

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  Phoenix Police Officer Daryl Raetz's Body Circled by Nativist Buzzards

  published May 20, 2013

  The nativists are a parasitic lot. They gloat when someone is murdered by an "illegal immigrant," or any kind of immigrant, actually. In the Boston bombings, they made a feast of the two brothers,... More >>

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  Phoenix Cop Daryl Raetz Killed by Hit-and-Run SUV-Driving Scum (w/Update)

  published May 19, 2013

  ***Please see update below.*** There should be a special ring of Hell devoted to hit-and-run drivers, if there isn't already. Not to mention that it must take a special kind of SOB to hit a cop and ... More >>

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  Jan Brewer: Ignorant, Irrational, Prevaricating, Self-Serving Bigot

  published May 18, 2013

  They don't call her "GED Jan" for nothin'. Following U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell's ruling this week in Arizona Dream Act Coalition v. Jan Brewer, Brewer was quick to gloat and mischara... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Recall Suspends Paid Signature Gathering Campaign for Second Time

  published May 16, 2013

  The roller-coaster campaign to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio took another dive today. With just two weeks left before the recall's May 30 deadline, the on-again, off-again paid effort to gather signatur... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video

  published May 16, 2013

  Citizens for a Better Arizona president Randy Parraz makes two very important points in this new video from Dennis Gilman. The first has to do with what is possible. See also: -Joe Arpaio Shill C... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Sycophant Don Shooter Wants to Give Joe $1.5M of Your Money (Update: Shooter Amendment FAILS in Senate)

  published May 15, 2013

  Note: Please see update below. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's been doin' a bang-up job lately, and not just on that broken arm of hisr See also: -Don't Tread On Me, I'm DON SHOOTER!: S... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Fave Pay-triot John Philip Sousa IV Fires Back, Makes Bank Off Peddling Joe

  published May 15, 2013

  Nativist Nimrod and birther nutbar John Philip Sousa IV slays me with his whole, "Guess who my great-grandpappy wasr" song and dance, which he uses to sell his lame book about the original John Phil... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Flip-Flopping John McCain Is No Political Profile in Courage

  published May 16, 2013

  It wouldn't be a John McCain town hall without occasional off-color humor. "There was a poll, a poll that had to do with favorability,"... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Gets Mad Love from the Arizona Republic

  published May 13, 2013

  The Arizona Republic's editorial board must be patting themselves on the back right now. Why, they scored an editorial on the Gang of Eight's immigration bill from none other than recalled, disgrace... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Recall Re-Ignites Paid Petition Effort with 22 Days to Go

  published May 08, 2013

  With 22 days remaining, the effort to boot Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office has re-started the paid petition-gathering campaign it discontinued back on March 18. See also: -Joe Arpaio Fans Look a Lit... More >>

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  Bill Montgomery's Apartheid Policies Challenged by Puente's Carlos Garcia in Videotaped Confrontation

  published May 04, 2013

  Monty's head nearly explodes as he's challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on ... More >>

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  Bill Montgomery Screwed Up Tom Horne Complaint, Second Judge Rules

  published May 03, 2013

  I'm beginning to think Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should enroll in some remedial law classes. That's because now a superior court judge has agreed with an administrative law judge tha... More >>

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  Bill Montgomery's Victims Break: 14 Captured in Sportex Raid Plead Out Under Coercion

  published May 02, 2013

  Bill Montgomery's victims speak... Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's dirty, dangerous and sometimes dead... More >>

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  ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal (w/Update)

  published Apr 30, 2013

  Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. Please see update below. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration En... More >>

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  Did Phoenix Police Need to Kill Zachariah Pithanr

  published Apr 29, 2013

  During the uproar over the 2010 shooting death of South Phoenix resident Danny Rodriguez by former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman, I often wondered why two Phoenix cops could not subdue one... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip and Help Retire Him from Office

  published Apr 27, 2013

  I've been thinking about sending Sheriff Joe Arpaio a note expressing my deep concern for his health, and suggesting that he resign before the MCSO ends up being Phoenix's version of Weekend at Bern... More >>

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  Bill Montgomery: Victimizer of Undocumented Workers, Turns "Victims' Rights" Advocate in DC

  published Apr 25, 2013

  It's a requirement in Arizona, more than in any other state in the Union, that politicians be shameless hypocrites. And Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is no piker in this regard. See also... More >>

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  DPS Officer's Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months (w/Update)

  published Apr 24, 2013

  If you need an illustration of Arizona's diseased "attrition through enforcement" mentality, look no further than the case of Solaguahire Zenil, a local DREAMer, who is currently in the custody of U... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with 38 Days and Counting

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Respect Arizona, the group attempting to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, may yet prove the naysayers wrong. At a press conference Monday in downtown Phoenix, about 20 members of the group ga... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Joe Arpaio's Chili Cooked by Kyrsten Sinema, Randy Parraz, and Andrew Sherwood

  published Apr 19, 2013

  I'm heartened to see local Democrats unabashedly supporting the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is spearheaded by Respect Arizona, and assisted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, headed by... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Henchman Bill Montgomery Milks CIR While Separating Parents from Children

  published Apr 16, 2013

  Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is gettin' real popular with some in the pro-immigration reform crowd. Never mind that he collaborates with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in prosecuting undocumented w... More >>

• A Teen's Shooting Death Was Avoidable, Even If the Cops Call It "Justified"

  published April 18, 2013

  The kid had it coming. That's the impression conveyed by the press release from the Phoenix Police Department on the recent shooting... More >>