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

• ACORN Subpoena at Odds with Joe Arpaio's Statements; MCSO Claims ACORN Was Served Properly

  published Sep 18, 2009

  ACORN's passed along to me this subpoena that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's been bragging about to the media, and though it's a clear fishing expedition on the part of Arpaio's attorney in the... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's Deputies Harass Activists with Cameras, but Arpaio Acknowledged Observers' Right to Film in 2006

  published Sep 18, 2009

  Sheriff Arpaio's boys in beige have begun a war within a war against those who observe them -- activists armed with video cameras who listen to police scanners during Arpaio's racial profi... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Subpoenas ACORN Records in Desperate Attempt to Snuggle on TV with Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, Anyone

  published Sep 17, 2009

  Maricopa County Sheriff's Office press releases are known for being as dependable as dispatches from the Flat Earth Society. But this latest one informing the public about Sher... More >>

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  Phoenix NORML Rallies for "Prince of Pot" Marc Emery, Hawks Pin-Up Calendar of Cheeba-Smokin' Gals

  published Sep 17, 2009

  Tasty bud, cool babes and a cause you can believe in: Now that's a movement, people. And you can join up this Saturday at 24th Street and Camelback where Phoenix NORML (National Organiza... More >>

• "Declare Your Independence with Ernie Hancock" Features Yours Truly as Guest

  published Sep 17, 2009

  I took up Phoenix libertarian Ernie Hancock's invite to be on his Webcast Wednesday morning, after much prodding from Hancock and his supporters. Alas, I couldn't make it into the studio. (... More >>

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  Anti-Steven Anderson Protest Sunday, September 13: Christopher Broughton Joins the Demonstrators

  published Sep 16, 2009

  I've been under the gun recently, so I haven't had time to post pics and give a little report of what happened this past Sunday at Tempe's Faithful Word Baptist Church, home of the Obama-m... More >>

• Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

  published September 17, 2009

  HE'S A WINNER! Allow me to be the first to congratulate Maricopa County Sheriff Joe... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Hosted in Houston by Two Nativist Extremist Groups, Receives "2009 Bull Connor Award" from Activist

  published Sep 14, 2009

  I don't know about the devil goin' down to Georgia, but Sheriff Joe did go down to Houston this weekend to pimp the pack of bogus yarns in his 2008 tome Joe's Law. You know, the one wherein h... More >>

• Scottsdale's Eric Luke Arteaga Twitters Wish To Shoot Barack Obama and Others (w/Update and Response from Eric Luke)

  published Sep 13, 2009

  I'd be inclined to overlook this "Eric Luke" -- a Scottsdale musician-hipster, and apparent frame shop employee (nothing hip about that), who recently Twittered a wish to shoot the President ... More >>

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  Arizona Tea Party Puddin' Heads; Plus, Russell Pearce Says Joe Arpaio Won't Run for Guv, Despite Business Journal Report

  published Sep 12, 2009

  Obama is a Nazi. Obama is a commie. Obama is a pirate. (Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum.) Obama is a socialist. Obama is the Joker from The Dark Night. (You know, Heath Ledger) Yadda-yadda-yadda.... More >>

• 9/11 "Troof," Ed Begley, Jr., and Why Van Jones Needed to Go

  published Sep 11, 2009

  Ed Begley, Jr. disowns his past troofer connections, while discussing Van Jones' political seppuku Eight years following the 9/11 attacks, with a new president under our belts, all lefties still cli... More >>

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  Darrell Ankarlo Returns Part-Time to KTAR: Did the Hate Jock Get Some Sense Slapped Into Him By That Car Wreckr

  published Sep 10, 2009

  Ethics-twister, Mexican-basher and tireless self-aggrandizing lip-flapper Darrell Ankarlo, winner of the 2008 New Times Best Bigot Award for constantly being down on the brown during ... More >>

• Steven Anderson's Three Alarm Baptist Church: Barry Lynn of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State Weighs In

  published Sep 10, 2009

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  Laine Lawless Met with Shawna Forde and Accomplice Hours After Arivaca Killings, Says Report

  published Sep 09, 2009

  Mexican flag-burnin' nativist Laine Lawless may have some 'splainin' to do. According to a report in the Everett, Washington Daily Herald, the newspaper that's been the most dogged in following their ... More >>

• The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon (w/Update)

  published Sep 08, 2009

  Ever get the feeling we're in the midst of some mass psychosis regarding the President of the United States on the part of those who hate his gutsr For example, anti-Obama groups regularly use ... More >>

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  Steven Anderson Flips Out, Admits Business and Church Share an Address, Says He's Been Contacted by U.S. Secret Service (w/Update)

  published Sep 06, 2009

  Weirdness of weirdness. I was only hoping to do one blog post today, but fate took another turn. I ended back up in Tempe, thinking protest organizer Leonard Clark might be doing another anti-... More >>

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  Steven Anderson, Leonard Clark's Pastor Protest, and Anderson's Fire Alarm Business Address

  published Sep 06, 2009

  It was love vs. hate, round one, down at the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe this morn, as about 125 soldiers of love, led by local progressive activist Leonard Clark, took on the Pastor ... More >>

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  Salvador Reza and the Puente Crew Celebrate One Year Protesting Joe Arpaio at Wells Fargo with Mariachis and Ice Cream Cake

  published Sep 04, 2009

  With mariachis, dancing, ice cream cake, and even a brief appearance by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza and fellow activists celebrated one year of near-daily protests at... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Considers Run for Guv According to Phoenix Business Journal, David Hendershott Considers Exile in Honduras

  published Sep 04, 2009

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be considering a run for Governor of Arizona, according to Phoenix Business Journal reporter Mike Sunnucks. If he does so, Chief Deputy David Hendershott might... More >>

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  Over 183 Migrant Deaths, 13 Arraigned for Leaving Water: No Better Time to See 7 Soles

  published Sep 03, 2009

  rPedro Ultreras' stark, uncompromising film 7 Soles (7 Suns) may be the most timely film out now. The movie depicts a band of Mexican migrants enduring a living nightmare to cross the Sonoran ... More >>

• Steven Anderson's Yuma City Warrant for "Disorderly Conduct," and RP4409's Moronic Misuse of the Word "Nazi" (w/Update)

  published Sep 03, 2009

    Watch this, and tell me truthfully, who do you feel for, these two guys, or the nudnik operating the camerar Look, I'm no fan of the U.S. Border Patrol. Or of checkpoints. Or of police po... More >>

• Wannabe Timothy McVeigh Types Welcome: The Neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition's Phoenix Fall Wing Ding

  published Sep 02, 2009

  Like you needed more proof that white supremacists are lame and talentless Are you painfully white, and hate Jews, diversity, Mexicans, and black folk (though not necessarily in that order)r&nb... More >>

• Sunday Service at Obama-Hater Pastor Steve Anderson’s Tempe Church, and Details of Inmate Marcia Powell’s Autopsy

  published September 3, 2009

  CORPUS DELICTI We already know the real cause of death of Marcia Powell, the... More >>

• Anti-Vaccine Ron Paul Insaniacs (aka, "Ronulans") Rousted by Phoenix PD, and Man Could I Care Less

  published Sep 01, 2009

  Well, at least they weren't using old bedsheets this time around Normally, I could give a flip if someone hangs a banner off a freeway overpass. But these Ron Paul-worshipping hosers so annoy me wit... More >>

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  Marcia Powell's Autopsy Report Rules Cage Death in ADC Custody an "Accident"

  published Aug 31, 2009

  The Maricopa County Medical Examiner's Office has released the autopsy report and toxicology results for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old woman who died May 20 after being confined to a human cag... More >>