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

• Arizona Republic Columnist E.J. Montini's Dull-Witted Sympathy for the Redflex Speed Cameras

  published Dec 09, 2008

  Ipso schmucko can't fathom why the hoi polloi hate the photo enforcement cameras.The Arizona Republic's smug, smarmy scribbler E.J. Montini is clueless (yet, again) as to why so many of the Republic's... More >>

• The Bird Praises CameraFraud.com and Aerosol Art While Urging State Democrats to Grow a Pair

  published December 11, 2008

  FIRING WEEG Whenever this canary contemplates the difference between state Republicans and... More >>

• The New York Times Calls a Napolitano-Less Arizona a "State of Fear"

  published Dec 08, 2008

  It loves the Napster a little too much...The New York Times has one thing correct. Once Janet Napolitano has boarded her flight for D.C., Hispanics in Arizona are right to be fearful of a ramped-... More >>

• Who's Afraid of CNN's Rick Sanchezr Governor Janet Napolitano

  published Dec 08, 2008

  Embedded video from CNN VideoArpaio defending Nappy on Rick Sanchez's CNN broadcast. Why won't the Napster go on CNN anchor Rick Sanchez's afternoon showr Following President elect Barack Obama's... More >>

• Video of Alleged Photo Radar Attacker Travis Munroe Townsend

  published Dec 05, 2008

  Right off the bat, I have to say that in this video Travis Munroe Townsend, 26, the alleged attacker of a Glendale photo enforcement camera (and, if guilty, an American hero, in my opinion), doesn'... More >>

• Yet Another Reason Janet Napolitano Should Be Blocked: The Chandler Roundup

  published Dec 05, 2008

  What will it take before the pro-immigrant crowd starts a real campaign to stop this womanr Hispanic leaders in Arizona and elsewhere need to start raising hell over the nomination of border hawk Ja... More >>

• Tucson Extremist Roy Warden's Upcoming "Rally" to "Impeach" AZ Supreme Ruth McGregor

  published Dec 04, 2008

  Roy Warden: Este pendejo, indeed...Anti-immigrant nutjob and Mexican flag-burner Roy Warden's coming to town Wednesday, December 10 for a "rally" to "impeach" Arizona Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth ... More >>

• Dems Don Bivens, Maria Weeg Get Love from Sonoran Alliance; Sean McCaffrey Leaves AZ GOP

  published Dec 03, 2008

  Maria Weeg, aka, "the Weeg-ster": Her resemblance to erstwhile Dukakis campaign aide Susan Estrich, is striking.It's gotta be cold comfort for Arizona Democratic Party Chairman "Dandy" Don Bivens and ... More >>

• Gov. Ed Rendell on Janet "No Life" Napolitano and the Assumptions That Follow

  published Dec 03, 2008

  CNN's Campbell Brown "Cutting Through the Bull" concerning Janet. Well, not completely... So the blogging and talk radio world is all over Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for his off-mic comment abo... More >>

• "Alleged" No Longer: Nativist Buffalo Rick Galeener Pleads Guilty to Urinating in Public

  published Dec 02, 2008

  Buffalo Rick Galeener, guilty of taking an illegal al fresco whiz.In a surprising turn of events in the pending bench trial of nativist wackjob and noted Yosemite Sam-lookalike Buffalo Rick Galeener, ... More >>

• Walloping Janet Napolitano for Her Prop 102 Stance, The Word-Wrangling Wren Looks to Harvey Milk for Inspiration

  published December 4, 2008

  BENEDICT NAPOLITANO This nutty nightingale was tooling down the road the other day in his fabulous... More >>

• Janet Napolitano Heads to Homeland Security, Joe Arpaio Dances a Jig

  published Dec 01, 2008

    Part One of Amy Goodman's recent Democracy Now! segment on Janet Napolitano. Part Two from the same Democracy Now! show. If you want a quick video primer on why today's official pick of Gov.... More >>

• Eight Year Old St. Johns Boy Is Poster Kid for Gun Laws

  published Dec 01, 2008

  If there's anything the tragedy in St. Johns should teach you, it's that if you plan to spank your eight year old 1,000 times, you may not want to show him how to shoot a rifle. Either that, or you mi... More >>

• Pissed Off Arizona Democratsr It's About Damn Time...

  published Nov 28, 2008

  The thing that's annoyed me most post-November 4 is the way state Dems seem to be shrugging and taking their losses locally on the chin. Rather than being infuriated that the state Democratic Party ef... More >>

• Sen. Barry Goldwater, Anchor-Grandbaby

  published Nov 25, 2008

  An excerpt from Bill McCune's 1991 documentary, Barry Goldwater: An American Life.Someone recently sent me this YouTube clip from Bill McCune's excellent bio-doc Barry Goldwater: An American Life, wh... More >>

• The Dirty on Nik Richie, Post-it Note Ninjas, and SCA-Gate — All Within This Owl’s Talons

  published November 27, 2008

  HOO' DA MAN? Okay, this naughty nightingale will come clean with you bird brains. Once in a long... More >>

• Gay-Bashin' Westboro Baptist Church Punks Out of Glendale Picket

  published Nov 24, 2008

  Just a few of the folks WBC missed out on meeting Saturday night.I was expecting a hatefest, a yellathon, maybe even some fisticuffs. Instead, it turned into a love-in.I'm talking about the threatened... More >>

• The Dirty's Hooman Karamian, a.k.a., Corbin Grimes, a.k.a., "Nik Richie" Wusses Out

  published Nov 21, 2008

  Hooman Karamian, the wannabe Perez Hilton... Sometimes, God sends you free room service. That's what it felt like a couple of days ago when Hooman Karamian's flack with the mega firm of 5W PR called... More >>

• Fear of a Black Prez and Crazy White Folks with Guns

  published Nov 20, 2008

  Why worryr As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white peopler Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun st... More >>

• Road Rage: DPS Photo Enforcement Cameras Blocked with Post-It Notes

  published Nov 19, 2008

  Freedom's Phoenix has the scoop on the growing Post-it note rebellion against DPS' new photo enforcement cameras. Say you wanna revolutionr I know I do every time I take the 51 through town and have... More >>

• Deez Nutz: Philip Berg, Barack Obama Birth Certificate Challenger and 9/11 Nutjob

  published Nov 18, 2008

  Get over it, nutbars. Come January 20, he'll be the Prez, and there's nothing you can do about it. Weird how the extremes of the far right and far left end up playing patty cake with each other in t... More >>

• Neo-Nazis Gather at Mesa Library Saturday, Then Rendezvous at Amazing Jake's (w/UPDATE).

  published Nov 14, 2008

  Jesse Curnow, organizer of the local chapter of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition. Ever want to shake hands with your friendly, neighborhood neo-Nazir Well, here's your chance. This Saturday aftern... More >>

• Fox Reality Channel to Air Lame Arpaio Reality Show in December.

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Anything to get the boob on the boob tube, eh, Joer Say you're sick of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's aged, authoritarian blowholer So much so that the mere sight of his flaccid turkey neck and oily pate caus... More >>

• Mothers Against Illegal Aliens' Michelle Dallacroce Calls It Quits, for Now.

  published Nov 13, 2008

  FOX News regular Michelle Dallacroche says she's shutting down MAIA due to lack of funds. I owe nativist firebrand Michelle Dallacroce a wiener. And I mean that in the sweetest way possible. Ever s... More >>

• The Bird Claws at State Democrats and Likens the GOP's SCA-gate to the Granddaddy of Political Scandals

  published November 13, 2008

  LOCAL LOSERS A bucket of warm spit. That's the phrase Franklin D. Roosevelt's veep, John... More >>