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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2007 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• WITH A WHIMPER, NOT A BANG: Judge Anna Baca unseals court records; Dennis Wilenchik takes a powder.

  published Oct 24, 2007

  No surprise today that Judge Anna Baca unsealed all the records of the grand jury in the New Times case. Actually, according to her, there was technically no grand jury yet, so the stuff wasn't really... More >>

• Who's Sorry Now?

  published October 25, 2007

  Looking pale and uncharacteristically gun-shy, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas approached the podium in his office's eighth-floor... More >>

• ROSY RED HERRING: Why County Attorney Candy "Babyface" Thomas is a freakin' opportunistic moron willing to endanger his kids for political gain.

  published Oct 24, 2007

  Check this video of Tuesday's press conference by County Attorney Andrew Thomas, featuring his fake outrage about the Arizona Republic having a link online to a County Recorder document listing his ad... More >>

• Yours Truly battles Darrell Ankarlo on air regarding Sheriff Joe Arpaio

  published Oct 22, 2007

  Ankarlo not only digs smooching the Sheriff's butt, he also enjoys the occasional snack. I didn't really have time to be on KTAR today, engaging in verbal fisticuffs with the Mormon-owned radio sta... More >>

• CANDY'S CAPITULATION: Video of Andrew "Candy" Thomas' crow-munching press conference this afternoon.

  published Oct 19, 2007

  Enjoy this delicious video of County Attorney Candy "Babyface" Thomas admitting to a major eff-up yesterday in the effort to prosecute New Times by using his private attack-schnauzer Dennis Wilencheck... More >>

• IN YOUR FACE! FURIOUS PUBLIC BACKLASH FORCES COUNTY ATTORNEY ANDREW THOMAS TO DROP CASE AGAINST NEW TIMES.

  published Oct 19, 2007

  County Attorney Thomas, admitting major mistakes and backing off the criminal prosecution of New Times. In a stunning capitulation to an overwhelming public backlash, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew... More >>

• UPDATE: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MIKE LACEY AND JIM LARKIN RELEASED FROM SHERIFF'S CUSTODY, VOW TO FIGHT ON.

  published Oct 19, 2007

  VVM Executive Editor Michael Lacey talking to reporters earlier this a.m. after being released from MCSO custody. Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey was released from PHX's 4th Avenu... More >>

• BREAKING NEWS: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MICHAEL LACEY AND JIM LARKIN ARRESTED!

  published Oct 19, 2007

  New Times founders Jim Larkin (left) and Michael Lacey (right), now under arrest. Plainclothes Maricopa County Sheriff's officers arrested New Times founders, Village Voice Media Executive Editor M... More >>

• SMACKDOWN! Judge Edward Burke bitchslaps Dennis Wilenchik & Andrew Thomas.

  published Oct 18, 2007

  The iron fist in the velvet glove: Smoothie Judge Burke crushes the C.A. and Wilenchik's 10.1 motion like it was an empty Pepsi can. In a quick ruling on yesterday's 10.1 hearing in which County A... More >>

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• Do Svidanya, Joe

  published October 18, 2007

  It's official. The former Soviet Union's freer, kinder, and safer for the indigent and the sick than Maricopa County. What other conclusion... More >>

• County Attorney Andrew "Babyface" Thomas and hired muscle Dennis "Demon Dog" Wilenchik being investigated by AZ State Bar.

  published Oct 16, 2007

  Candy "Babyface" Thomas, minus his Dirty Sanchez mustache. Amazing that the Arizona Capitol Times buried this story on page 8 of their current issue: "State Bar files ethics complaint against County... More >>

• KEYSTONE KOPPERS: The skinny on the fake plot to whack Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

  published Oct 15, 2007

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• The "Mother" of all catfights: Mothers Against Drunk Driving vs. Mothers Against Illegal Aliens.

  published Oct 12, 2007

  MAIA's Michelle Dallacroce, the closest thing the nativists have to Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich. Being that I'm both pro-inebriation and what the anti-illegals crowd likes to call a champion of... More >>

• Motion from Demon Dog Dennis Wilenchik and Candy "Babyface" Thomas shot down by Judge Barbara "Badass" Mundell.

  published Oct 11, 2007

  What outlandish legal maneuver will the Wily Wilenchik pull nextr The presiding judge of the Maricopa County Superior Court, Judge Barbara "Badass" Mundell has shot down an unprecedented bit of lega... More >>

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• Pitiless P-Town

  published October 11, 2007

  Someone cue Gene Pitney: It ain't pretty, a town without pity. And Phoenix has been that town for the family of Carol Gotbaum, the... More >>

• KTAR's redneck fans ready to starve themselves if Mexicans don't pick their food.

  published Oct 09, 2007

  PHX radio station KTAR 92.3 FM's a real conundrum. As far as reporting local, breaking news, they do a pretty good job sometimes. And they have an increasingly solid Web site, with interesting stories... More >>

• Former County Attorney Rick Romley endorses Dan Saban for Sheriff. (w/UPDATE)

  published Oct 08, 2007

  Just got this press release from the Saban camp announcing that former Republican County Attorney Rick Romley is endorsing now-Democrat Dan Saban for Sheriff in '08 over Sheriff Joe Arpaio. I'm on dea... More >>

• Law is WAR: Video of Dennis "the Menace" Wilenchik vs. Judge Timothy "The Hair" Ryan (now w/improved video)

  published Oct 08, 2007

  Round one of the Wilenchik-Ryan donnybrook. (We've improved the video a bit on these. Don't know why Round 2 is so choppy, but at least the sound is better.) For fans of scintillating courtroo... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's necropsies on DMX's doggies. The resultr A crock of canine poo.

  published Oct 07, 2007

  Doesn't the MCSO have something better to do than play with DMX's dead pit bullsr Apparently not. Friday, I picked up a copy of the necropsies (doggy autopsies) done on the three dead canines found ... More >>

• Sgt. Andy Hill on surveillance footage of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest: More video exists.

  published Oct 06, 2007

  Phoenix police spokesman Sgt. Andy Hill just got back to me on the existence of further video of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest last Friday. Bottom line: There is some. This was Hill's response to my que... More >>

• Update from the Phoenix PD on Noah Gotbaum's calls concerning his wife.

  published Oct 05, 2007

  Sgt. Andy Hill of the PHX PD just released the following statement regarding the transcripts of phone calls made by Noah Gotbaum concerning his spouse Carol Anne Gotbaum. This was a mass e-mail sent o... More >>

• Follow-up on the police report, with new photos of Carol Gotbaum and her family.

  published Oct 05, 2007

  Carol Gotbaum with her three children Ella, Nathaniel and Tobias. Carol with husband Noah and their kids. Here's the update on the police report I promised, along with some new photos released by ... More >>

• Press conference and video of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest.

  published Oct 04, 2007

  I made the PHX PD press conference today where Sgt. Andy Hill showed surveillance footage of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest and gave details of the events leading up to her death. Above is a clip... More >>