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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2009 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• The Anti-Arpaio Haymarket Squares Storm the Cronkite Building (Video)

  published Dec 04, 2009

  Because I was upstairs at the Cronkite School building this past Monday watching Sheriff Joe get blistered by the journalism profs, then sung off the stage by the Freddie Mercury impersonato... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's Boy Adam Stoddard: Is He in the Lower Buckeye Jailr

  published Dec 04, 2009

  There's beaucoup speculation out there about the location of MCSO detention officer Adam Stoddard, the poor, poor deputy (sniff) who's been jailed for contempt of court by Judge Gary Donahoe following... More >>

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  Ron Paul's "Ronulans" Go Gaga Over Documentary For Liberty

  published Dec 03, 2009

  Whenever Congressman Ron Paul shuffles off this mortal coil, he'll have no dearth of hagiographers. Indeed, he already has plenty, like the makers of the documentary For Liberty, who have produced a s... More >>

• Sheriff Joe's Bigoted Deputies Harass an Activist in Video from September

  published Dec 02, 2009

  Back in September, shortly after MCSO's South Phoenix anti-immigrant sweep, I blogged about a 2006 letter signed by Sheriff Joe to the head of Phoenix Copwatch acknowledging the constitutional right o... More >>

• Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

  published December 3, 2009

  QUEEN FOR A DAY The ironically dubbed "First Amendment Forum" at ASU's Walter Cronkite... More >>

• He Never Flinched: A U.S. Citizen Was Detained by the MCSO and Then Testified Before Congress About His Being Racially Profiled

  published December 3, 2009

  Editor's note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Foes Score: Acquitted Activists Win Legal Fees from County Attorney

  published Dec 01, 2009

  Call it the cost of clapping. Five anti-Arpaio activists were awarded legal fees Monday by Justice of the Peace C. Steven McMurry in a case that involved four of them being arrested for applauding at ... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Meet the Press Moment Interrupted to the Tune of Bohemian Rhapsody

  published Dec 01, 2009

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio's circus came to ASU's Cronkite School of Journalism Monday night, only to be cut short by the sounds of a pro-immigrant ditty, sung to the tune of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody.The eve... More >>

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  CBS 5's Joe Arpaio Follow-Up, and the Pressure on the ASU Profs to Perform Tonight

  published Nov 30, 2009

  If CBS 5's follow-up to its October Joe Arpaio special didn't pack the combination punch of the first episode, it did bring home the notion that anyone can get caught up in Arpaio's web of cynical, tr... More >>

• Joe Arpaio to be Honored with Award Named for Wing-Nut Paul Weyrichr

  published Nov 27, 2009

  Like you needed further evidence of Joe Arpaio's involvement with far right extremists, Arpaio recently stated on his Twitter account that his contributions to wing-nuttery will be acknowledged this D... More >>

• Tater Tots and a Video from the Nativists Featuring Yours Truly

  published Nov 27, 2009

  On this day after Thanksgiving, I want to show my appreciation to the nativist knuckleheads who've helped me fill endless blog items with reports on their stupidities and racist deeds. Witho... More >>

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  "Senator" Janet Napolitanor "President" Sarah Palinr No Thanks, Say Cronkite Poll Respondents

  published Nov 25, 2009

  Sand Landers want former guv and now-DHS czar Janet Napolitano to keep polishing her chair in D.C. And not as a U.S. Senator. That's what a new Cronkite-Eight poll reveals. In a hypothetic... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Supporter Jim Gilchrist Takes Swipe at Ron Paul "Fanatics" and Every Other Nativist on the Planet

  published Nov 25, 2009

  The one thing you can always count on with minutemen, nativists and neo-Nazis is more backstabbing than backstage at a Miss America Pageant. This video from VronRN2 of a conversation between... More >>

• CBS 5 Follows Up on Joe Arpaio Report Wednesday, Channel 12's Joe Special a Disappointment

  published Nov 24, 2009

  I just spoke with CBS 5/KPHO news producer Gilbert Zermeno, part of the award-winning team that put together the recent, blistering report on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power that ran at the e... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio "First Amendment Forum" at ASU Cronkite School To Be Protested by Student Activists

  published Nov 24, 2009

  As mind-numbingly impossible as it is to imagine, Sheriff Joe, avowed enemy of a free press and brown people everywhere, will be the guest speaker at the ASU Cronkite School of Journalism's "First Ame... More >>

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  FBI Reports Hate Crimes Up in Arizona, Phoenix, and Maricopa County

  published Nov 23, 2009

  The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 percent. Locally, hate crimes were... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Best in Field Against Terry Goddard for Governor's Race Rasmussen Reports

  published Nov 23, 2009

  Arizona voters apparently love racial profiling and corruption. That's the conclusion I'm drawing from newly released Rasmussen poll numbers showing that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio does... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Deputies Admit Destroying Evidence in Racial Profiling Lawsuit

  published Nov 21, 2009

  In a stunning revelation recently made public as part of the ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an MCSO sergeant has admitte... More >>

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  John McCain and J.D. Hayworth in Dead Heat in Rasmussen Poll, but Will Foghorn Leghorn Take the Plunger

  published Nov 20, 2009

  A new Rasmussen Reports poll just out shows KFYI lip-flapper and former congressman J.D. Hayworth in a dead heat with U.S. Senator John McCain for the 2010 GOP primary nod. Hayworth is within t... More >>

• Salvador Reza Discusses Joe Arpaio on GRITtv, and Dennis Gilman's Video on Nazis in Arizona

  published Nov 20, 2009

  Dennis Gilman's outdone himself yet again in his latest video, this time focusing on the November neo-Nazi march to the state Capitol, and the links between the Nazis and the nativists. It's a creepy,... More >>

• Blue Boy Video: See the Creation of the African-American Face That Was Too Much for an Arizona Town

  published Nov 19, 2009

  Thanks to New Times Web Editor Jonathan McNamara, you can now watch Phoenix muralist Francisco Garcia creating the Blue Boy image that so freaked out the little town of Pine-Strawberry, Arizona, that ... More >>

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  Holocaust Denier David Irving's Uberbabe Assistant Jaenelle Antas Ready to Bounce According to Hacked Emails

  published Nov 19, 2009

  I haven't given much thought to Holocaust-denier David Irving since July, when I covered his appearance at the Phoenix diner Jerry's. There he spoke to a group including local neo-Nazis such as Harry ... More >>

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  Mike Harris' Neo-Nazi Dalliance: Photos, Screenshots, Video

  published Nov 18, 2009

  The lead item in my Bird column this week, titled "SS IGNORANT," is about 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris and his flirtation with white supremacy. Read the article for all the grit... More >>

• ABC's Nightline Admits They're in Town for Joe Arpaio's Sweep, Denies Coordination; and Graffiti on Joe's Jailsr

  published Nov 17, 2009

  Joe claims ABC just happened to be in town when the sweep started in this Channel 3 piece Following up on my blog post of yesterday, wherein I quoted sources telling me that Arpaio's latest ant... More >>

• A Former Arizona Gubernational Candidate Flirts With Facism; Plus, a Grade School in Pine Paints Over an African-American Face on Its Mural

  published November 19, 2009

  SS IGNORANT Supposedly intelligent, respectable people do some really dumb stuff sometimes.... More >>