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"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "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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2007 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• Weekend Roundup: Nativist Elvis Presley rocks Paradise Valley Mall; Anderson's becomes Tranderson's....

  published Dec 30, 2007

  Why were the nativists at the Paradise Valley Mall Saturdayr "Why notr" sputtered American Freedom Riders founder Danny Smith in reply to my query. Hey, it's still a free country, kinda-sorta. And the... More >>

• Latest issue of SPLC's Intelligence Report outs PHX "Odin," slams FAIR, and details alleged, attempted murder of Amanda Crow by fellow skins.

  published Dec 28, 2007

  The latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report is out. The quarterly mag is practically a must-read for those following hate groups in AZ, the immigration issue, and how the... More >>

• Gary Peter Klahr sues Mayor Phil Gordon over attempt to alter PHX PD Operations Order 1.4.3.

  published Dec 26, 2007

  Citizen Klahr, still fightin' the good fight, in a pic from a 2002 New Times profile of Klahr. Whatever you may think of the oft-controversial and always colorful Gary Peter Klahr, civil libertarian... More >>

• A Joe Arpaio Christmas at Pruitt's: Bigotry and hate aplenty.

  published Dec 24, 2007

  Jeez, what fell in my eyer Did that come from The Bird!r Ah, the Christmas season, so full of joy and goodwill towards one's fellow man. But not at the PHX Pruitt's protests, boyo, where the Prince ... More >>

• Roger Sensing: The Eveready jackass who just keeps on losing...

  published Dec 21, 2007

  Amateur Mel Tillis impersonator and furniture-peddler Roger Sensing, acting like a pinche cabron, as usual, as he talks to Salvador Reza. (Photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.com.) The m... More >>

• Lefty Linda Valdez disappoints; plus, wing-nut Robert Robb's neo-Nazi fans!

  published Dec 20, 2007

  Tired ol' lefty Linda Valdez of the Repugly disappoints today in her "quick hit" against Salvador Reza and the protests at Pruitt's. I guess she got the top-down memo telling all of the Repugly's writ... More >>

• Self-Mutilation

  published December 20, 2007

  Jornaleros rise early. At the crack of dawn on a cold Sunday morning, there are about 30 or so day laborers milling about at the Macehualli... More >>

• Lil' Casey Newton pulls out kneepads for Mayor Phil Gordon; Santa's papers get checked at Pruitt's.

  published Dec 17, 2007

  Salvador Reza at this Saturday's protest on Thomas. Is the Republic's City Hall suckup, lil' Casey Newton, gunning for a job on Goober's staffr He might as well be, the way he's turned into a mouth... More >>

• WHERE WAS GOOBERr Mayor Phil Gordon weenies out yet again, skips Town Hall Meeting at South Mountain High.

  published Dec 15, 2007

  The Mayor's panel, getting an earful while Hizzoner hides out... Is Mayor Phil Gordon afraid of Hispanicsr You've gotta wonder, especially when a mostly Hispanic crowd of about 1,000 persons shows u... More >>

• FILTHY, FILTHY LUCRE: Andrew Thomas wants your dough, as Thomas' former intern digs for dirt on Gerald Richard.

  published Dec 14, 2007

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• Why Robert Robb's a fatuous fat-head, and Roger Sensing's no angel.

  published Dec 12, 2007

  Tell me about the rabbits again, George... Goofy, giraffe-necked doofus Robert Robb is easily The Arizona Republic's most fatuous scribbler. And with competition like E.J. "Puddin'Head" Montini and ... More >>

• Hen Party

  published December 13, 2007

  Anyone surprised Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon's turned clucker on Phoenix Police Department Operations Order 1.4.3, folding like a cardboard... More >>

• New York Times article and slideshow on Pruitt's clash in Phoenix.

  published Dec 10, 2007

  I'm on deadline today, so I barely have time to breathe, but here are a couple of things I felt I should point you to re: everyone's favorite topic: illegal immigration. First off, check this opinion... More >>

• County Attorney Candy Thomas rips off graffiti artist for truancy campaignr

  published Dec 10, 2007

  The original, legal art the County Attorney's office appropriated for its anti-truancy propaganda. "This crime sponsored by truancy"r A less-than crafty canard. A close up of the section used in... More >>

• Judge Anna Baca K.O.'s Sheriff Joe Arpaio on jail visitation hours.

  published Dec 07, 2007

  Judge Baca, keepin' the Sheriff in line: You go, girl! Poor Sheriff Joe. He claims he's running out of money, and has to cut corners all over the place, though he still finds the moolah to chase ill... More >>

• Suffer the children: St. Joseph's and the sad death of Joe Arvizu.

  published Dec 06, 2007

  North High student Joe Arvizu, who passed this Monday morning... Joe Arvizu's funeral took place yesterday in a small town near the Mexican city of Agua Prieta, across the border from Douglas, Arizo... More >>

• Dropping like a hot rock: Sheriff Joe Arpaio's numbers go further south; Terry Goddard whips Candy Thomas' keister in test election.

  published Dec 06, 2007

  Despite today's analysis from Arizona Republic reporter Yvonne Wingett that "Arpaio is still a rock star as far as politicians go," a new Rocky Mountain Poll shows that Sheriff Joe's numbers have slip... More >>

• Kentucky-Fried Joe

  published December 6, 2007

  You know it's bad when Nickel Bag Joe doesn't sell out in Sun City West. Yep, The Bird made the trek to the mythical land of geezers on... More >>

• GOOBER CAVES: Mayor Phil Gordon bows to violent extremists, seeks to ditch Operations Order 1.4.3.

  published Dec 04, 2007

  Have the extremists won the the dayr Almost. Only a blue-ribbon panel stands between them and total victory in this city. During his campaign for reelection, Mayor Phil Gordon correctly asserted tha... More >>

• The impending bloody Christmas at Pruitt's.

  published Dec 03, 2007

  These children could be killed in the crossfire... White supremacist Damon Ashenfelter (third from left), one of the several extremists present on Saturday. The sign held by the first man on the le... More >>

• Janet "Manet" Napolitano: The PC Grinch Who's Afraid of Christmas.

  published Nov 29, 2007

  Manet, the PC Grinch who's afraid of Christmas... How in the hell did Janet Napolitano become Governor of this stater Her major accomplishments while in office have been: 1) staying in the closet de... More >>

• Judge Baca smacks down Dennis Wilenchik and the County Attorney's office in the case of the New Times grand jury subpoenas.

  published Nov 29, 2007

  Dennis Wilenchik, taken to the woodshed by Judge Anna Baca. As she promised in court on Monday, November 26, Judge Anna Baca yesterday reiterated in a detailed minute entry that former special prose... More >>

• Jokes you won't hear at the Joe Arpaio roast...

  published Nov 28, 2007

  If you ask me, Joe likes playing with puppies a little too much... This canine is older and wiser... By now, most folks have surely heard of the Joe Arpaio roast local Republicans are holding in S... More >>

• Disorderly conduct charge, er, reappears against Ray Stern; Disagreements officially verboten in Michele Iafrate's offices by order of the Selective Enforcement Unit!

  published Nov 27, 2007

  Ever see a lawyer who doesn't like to arguer Well, now you have, Michele Iafrate, the alleged legal beagle whose complaint re: Ray Stern got him cited for "disorderly conduct." Since the posting of ... More >>

• Judge Baca says Dennis Wilenchik did not comply with law; some docs still missing from New Times grand jury file.

  published Nov 27, 2007

  In a hearing held late Monday a.m. following up on the New Times grand jury imbroglio, Superior Court Judge Anna Baca concluded that, "Mr. [Dennis] Wilenchik as special prosecutor did not comply with ... More >>