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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2008 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• The Bird pecks aways at the white hip-hop poseurs in P-town

  published January 17, 2008

  WIGGA, PLEASE Comedian D.L. Hughley once quipped that everybody wants to be black 'til the... More >>

• County Attorney Andrew Thomas, George Borjas, and getting the report you pay for...

  published Jan 14, 2008

  Harvard economics prof George Borjas, raking it in at $625 per hour... You get what you pay for, and County Attorney Candy "Lil' Joe" Thomas definitely got what he paid for with our money when he hi... More >>

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott in Hondurasrrr

  published Jan 12, 2008

  Deputy dawgs in Paradise: from left, Sheriff Joe's "Cheney" David Hendershott; Bay Islands Police Commissario Julio Benitez; retired MCSO Deputy Roger Marshall; and Captain Jim Miller. With the MC... More >>

• Grand Kleagle of local KKK supports Ron Paul for Prez, as does just about every other crackpot...

  published Jan 10, 2008

  Ron Paul, the Christ of the pod people; photo from his campaign Web site. What is it about Congressman Ron Paul that draws nearly every Klan member, Hitler-worshipper, tax-resister, John Bircher and... More >>

• More local neo-Nazis and such: Fritz Berg, Dana Arnold, and Jerry Harbin, with color commentary by "Shawn Hughes," aka, Scott Hume!

  published Jan 08, 2008

  Local NSM rep Scott Hume, alias, "Shawn Hughes" at one of the Pruitt's protests in December. Well, NSM-PHX acting unit leader Scott Hume (alias "Shawn Hughes") has jerked most of his stuff off the W... More >>

• Math-Challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can't Account for the $41 Million He's Cost Taxpayers

  published January 10, 2008

  Nothing makes this mallard madder than Tyra Banks after someone's said her booty's too big than having the truth-twisters over at the... More >>

• Another neo-Nazi in the nativist woodpile: "Scott Hume," alias "Shawn Hughes."

  published Jan 04, 2008

  ****PLEASE NOTE: Since I posted this item last night, some of the pages linked to below have been taken down. I anticipated this possibility, and so have screen shots of everything. Next week, I'll se... More >>

• Sources say local ICE honcho Alonzo Pena headed for revolving door (w/UPDATE)...

  published Jan 04, 2008

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• Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott takes a legal swipe at Rick Romley...

  published Jan 03, 2008

  Jabba the Hendershott, Arpaio's portly Dick Cheney... What I can never figure out about Maricopa County is that the public officials who by all rights should be under the freakin' magnifying glass a... More >>

• Darrell Ankarlo rags on Buffalo Chip; Salvador Reza threatens to close Macehualli; Rusty Childress' ongoing hypocrisy.

  published Jan 03, 2008

  Buffalo chips, ahoy! Even Ankarlo finds this guy "icky," and that's saying something, coming from KTAR's ick-meister pooh-bah... (Note the pistol, folks. Armedr Absolutely. Dangerousr Hey, no more th... More >>

• More Anderson's lameness, apparently...And a message from panic! promoters re: their Radiohead release party.

  published Jan 01, 2008

  The panic! release partyr It won't be at Anderson's... Here's a message from the folks at panic!, which apparently had a pending club date at the now defunct Anderson's Fifth Estate. The mass e-mail... More >>