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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2009 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  Joe Arpaio Showed Up Uninvited to Joe Biden Function, According to the White House

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Sounds like Joe Arpaio's been fibbing on Twitter, at least according to the White House. Vice President Joe Biden was in town for a meeting with local Dems in downtown Phoenix, and according to... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Stages Anti-Immigrant Sweep for Out-of-State Camera Crew; Plus, Arpaio Meets with Joe Bidenr (w/Updates)

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Sheriff Joe's PR flacks are working overtime. They just sent out a press advisory on a new countywide anti-immigration dragnet beginning today. What they don't tell you in the statement is that... More >>

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  Hillbilly Hootenanny: Nativist Jabronis Occupy the Arizona State Capitol for Yet Another Hatefest

  published Nov 16, 2009

  Who're worse, behavior-wise, the nativists or the neo-Nazisr Sure, neo-Nazis are nefarious and nuts. But the nativists make the neo-Nazis look urbane by comparison. And in some ways the nativists are ... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's "First Amendment Rights" Defended by Janet Napolitano

  published Nov 13, 2009

  In a speech today before the Center for American Progress, the think-tank that essentially acts as the Obama administration's gray matter, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano sp... More >>

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  "Salon Bandit" Joe Watson Faces 25 Years to Life, Trial Date Set for December 14

  published Nov 12, 2009

  Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Susan Brnovich has set a "firm trial" date of December 14 in the case of alleged "Salon Bandit" and former New Times scribe Joe Watson. Brnovich ordered all subpoe... More >>

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  Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That's Not Necessarily a Good Thing

  published Nov 11, 2009

  I'm not going to weep any tears for CNN's erstwhile token nativist Lou Dobbs, who resigned on air Tuesday, handing a victory to Latino groups who've sought his ouster through the Basta Dobbs campaign,... More >>

• Naui's Video of Saturday's Neo-Nazi March to the Capitol

  published Nov 11, 2009

  California videographer and activist Naui Ocelotl Huitzilopochtli captured some cool footage of Saturday's Nazi march and demo at the Arizona state Capitol, including a little confrontation with a swa... More >>

• A Skinhead-Collaring Cop, Nazis at the State Capitol, and a Lesbian Nativist Reveals Homicidal Fantasies Toward Mexicans

  published November 12, 2009

  SKIN BUSTERS I'm not the type for formal to-dos. The dress code kills me. Last time I wore a... More >>

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  Transgender Nativistsr MySpace for T-Girls and the Curious Case of Lynne Stevens

  published Nov 09, 2009

  Lynne Stevens has always been one of the odder figures in the local anti-immigrant movement, mainly because she doesn't fit the profile of angry old coot, as personified by her peer, convicted public ... More >>

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  The Anarchists Own the Nazis, and the Nazis Cause a Car Wreck as They Amscray

  published Nov 08, 2009

  Some 150 anarchists and other counter-demonstrators showed their mettle yesterday afternoon against a troop of around 60 neo-Nazis, mostly from out-of-state, who marched from 12th Avenue and Adam... More >>

• J.T. Ready's Star Turn, and the Plan for Tomorrow's Nazi March to the Capitol

  published Nov 06, 2009

  If you haven't seen J.T. Ready on the boob tube lately, you haven't been watching TV. Seems like the wannabe Ernst Roehm of the East Valley has been getting his moment in the media sun defending the v... More >>

• The Difference Between a Nativist Tea Party and a Neo-Nazi Rallyr Swastikas

  published Nov 06, 2009

  There's no great irony in the fact that a week after the neo-Nazi anti-immigration rally at the Arizona state Capitol this Saturday, there will be another anti-immigration rally at the Capitol on Nove... More >>

• Anarchists vs. Nazis at the Arizona Capitolr The "Phoenix Class War Council" Talks the Talk

  published Nov 04, 2009

  There's one group talking a big game about confronting the neo-Nazi scum at the state Capitol this Saturday: the anarchists, the traditional foes of goosesteppers going all the way back to the Spanish... More >>

• Does U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke Have the Stones to Take on Sheriff Joe?

  published November 5, 2009

  BURKE'S BUMBLE CBS 5's... More >>

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  Neo-Nazi NSM Scum at the Arizona Capitol: Should Sane People Give Them the Time of Dayr

  published Nov 04, 2009

  Let's not mince labels, here: The neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement members who'll be rallying at the state Capitol this coming Saturday afternoon are lowlife degenerates. And I don't just mean tha... More >>

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  Lou Dobbs' Account of Gunfire Incident "Chuckled" at by New Jersey Police Spokesman

  published Oct 31, 2009

  AlterNet scribe Isabel Macdonald's scored again. You'll recall her as the Brooklyn-based journalist who along with cameraman Mark Read captured Arpaio losing it a few months back. This, during an inte... More >>

• MCSO Deputies Swipe Defense Attorney's Docs, MCSO Says Deputies "Acted Appropriately"

  published Oct 30, 2009

  Like we needed more evidence of the insidious culture of corruption that pervades the entire Maricopa County Sheriff' Office: Check out this video from Channel 12 News, as reported on by Joe Dana. Acc... More >>

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  Ex-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias on Joe Arpaio: "I Would Seek an Indictment" (w/Video)

  published Oct 30, 2009

  CBS 5's nearly 10-minute segment on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power last night did not disappoint. Essentially, reporter Morgan Loew and producer Gilbert Zermeno laid out all of the major... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Cries Wolf, Links Self to Lou Dobbs Threat, Slanders Activists

  published Oct 30, 2009

  Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"r That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks... More >>

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  ABC 15 Flubs Joe Arpaio Poll Results, Arpaio's Numbers Countywide, Not Statewide

  published Oct 29, 2009

  Everyone's seen the recent Cronkite/Eight numbers showing that Sheriff Joe Arpaio remains popular in Maricopa County, with a 61 percent approval rating overall, and a 65 percent positive rating of tho... More >>

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  Minuteman Chris Simcox's 2007 Female Trouble

  published Oct 28, 2009

  In doing research on Chris Simcox -- the minuteman posterboy currently waging a quixotic campaign for the 2010 GOP U.S. Senate primary nod against the ancient, lizard-skinned Senator John McCain -- I ... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Target of FBI Probe, Says Channel 5 in Report to Air Thursday

  published Oct 28, 2009

  CBS 5's tantalizing promo for their Thursday report Set the DVR this Thursday night for KPHO CBS 5's 10 p.m. newscast, which will feature an eight minute mini-documentary on Sheriff Joe's abuses of p... More >>

• The MCSO Retaliates Against a Guadalupe Activist; Plus, John Huppenthal Spews Bogus Stats During a Prejudice Party at the Arizona Capitol

  published October 29, 2009

  LOCAL HEROES Ever since the... More >>

• Zip-Tied at 12: A Permanent Resident and His U.S. Citizen Son Are Bound by the MCSO for Being Brown and Living Next to a Drop House

  published October 29, 2009

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

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  Zack de la Rocha Returns to Phoenix January 16 to Lead National Day of Action

  published Oct 27, 2009

  The third time's the charm, and according to civil rights leader Salvador Reza of the Puente Movement, the pleasure will be ours January 16 as Rage Against the Machine/One Day as a Lion front... More >>