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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2010 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  Russell Pearce Sues in Bid To Rig Redistricting

  published Dec 30, 2010

  Well that didn't take long. As anticipated, state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce and his so-far compliant wingman state House Speaker Kirk Adams, are taking to court their bid to rig Arizona's ... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Buffaloes CNN with Nativist Bull on 14th Amendment

  published Dec 30, 2010

  I wish that when CNN news anchors have on a practiced prevaricator like state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce to discuss something as specific as the 14th Amendment's guarantee of birthright cit... More >>

• Russell Pearce Shot Down on Bid To Rig Redistricting

  published Dec 29, 2010

  State Senate President-elect Russell Pearce and state House Speaker Kirk Adams were handed a defeat this morning in their efforts to interfere with the nominees to the Independent Redistricting Commis... More >>

• Russell Pearce Wants To Rig Redistricting (Surprise, Surprise)

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission won't be independent if state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce has anything to do with it.Already, Pearce, with the assistance of state House Speake... More >>

• Russell Pearce and the Neo-Confederate Cause

  published Dec 28, 2010

  Having recently returned from spending Christmas in my native North Carolina, an obviously older state than the almost-but-not-yet-100-year-old state of Arizona, I was struck by a sense of hi... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Son Joshua Pearce: Mesa Police Won't File Charges in Child-Abuse Allegation

  published Dec 22, 2010

  State Senate President-elect Russell Pearce's son Joshua Trent Pearce recently was under investigation by the Mesa Police Department for allegations of possible child abuse. Mesa PD s... More >>

• Richard Mellon Scaife's Cash Pays For Judicial Watch's Ideologically Motivated Lawsuits

  published December 23, 2010

  WINGNUT WATCH If you follow Phoenix politics, then you are familiar with the activities of... More >>

• DREAM Act Demise: Republicans, the Enemies of Christmas

  published Dec 20, 2010

  I've always wondered who the Republicans hate more: Latinos or gaysrNow that the DREAM Act has failed a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate, while the effort to end Don't Ask Don't Tell succeeded, I guess... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Shakes Down Scores of Lobbyists, Legally

  published Dec 16, 2010

  To cop a line from the Notorious B.I.G., "Gimme the loot! Gimme the loot!"That's what Republican state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce might as well be saying with a recent e-mail announcing a f... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's E-Mails To Me on the Subject of J.T. Ready

  published Dec 15, 2010

  As I promised in this week's Bird column concerning state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce's involvement with neo-Nazi J.T. Ready's spiritual life as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Lat... More >>

• Sean Gaines Gets 25 Years in Skinhead Slaying, While Patrick Bearup Remains on Death Row

  published Dec 15, 2010

  Someone contacted me recently, wondering whether or not I support the death penalty. I told them I do not, but not because I think it's such a bad idea to give the needle to those who are dead-to-righ... More >>

• When Valley Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Converted to Mormonism, Guess Which Prominent Politico Ordained Him an "Elder"

  published December 16, 2010

  THE COMPANY HE KEPT It begins with denials, repeated over time, by state Arizona Senate... More >>

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  Zack de la Rocha, Soundstrike, Donate Food, Toys To Arizona Families

  published Dec 13, 2010

  For those who have kvetched about the boycott of Arizona over SB 1070, here's an interesting riposte: Zack de la Rocha's musicians-boycott, Soundstrike, along with other groups such as Puente, the Nat... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Slapdown: Judge Rejects Request To Seal Depositions in Melendres

  published Dec 10, 2010

  Judge G. Murray Snow, the federal judge in the three-year-long racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, has rejected a motion by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers to se... More >>

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  Russell Pearce, Bigot, Claims President Will Need "Papers" to Visit Arizona

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Pearce tells a bigot-boy joke at a Judicial Watch panel on immigration Chalk up another racist remark from Sand Land's neo-Nazi-hugging state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce. In D.C. to at... More >>

• John McCain vs. DREAM Act, Pt.2: Passes House, Senate Vote Today (w/Update)

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Dream a little DREAM with me...See an update on the status of the DREAM below.The haters were defeated in the U.S. House yesterday, and the DREAM Act passed 216-198.Today, the fight goes to the U.S. S... More >>

• John McCain vs. DREAM Act: Vote Expected Today

  published Dec 08, 2010

  Time's a wastin', people. Hit those phones. Hit 'em hard. The DREAM Act, proposed legislation that would legalize the status of undocumented students brought here when they were young, is being discu... More >>

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  Dimitri Rozenman's Guilty Verdict in Murder-for-Hire Case Vacated by Judge

  published Dec 07, 2010

  Has tobacco titan Dimitri Rozenman, convicted earlier this year of plotting to kill his wife and her family, scored a new trialr That might be the result of Judge Kristin Hoffman's decision... More >>

• Andrew Thomas May End Up Disbarred, But He Really Belongs in a Prison Cell

  published December 9, 2010

  CHICKENS COME HOME Embattled ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' recent, crybaby... More >>

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  Andrew Thomas' "Reckless, Four-Year Campaign of Corruption and Power Abuse"

  published Dec 06, 2010

  A "reckless, four-year campaign of corruption and power abuse." That's how retired Judge Charles E. Jones categorized the evidence against ex-County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his one-tim... More >>

• John McCain's Cowardice, the DREAM Act, and the Fasters

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Three days into her pro-DREAM Act fast outside the Phoenix office of Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, 23-year-old Dulce Juarez has a message for the ex-maverick."You supported the DREAM Act once,"... More >>

• Chris Simcox: Broke and Demanding Spousal Support from Estranged Wife

  published Dec 02, 2010

  How the not-so-mighty have fallen. According to a recent filing in his pending divorce, former minuteman leader and one-time dark horse U.S. Senate candidate Chris Simcox claims he's eking by on $1,00... More >>

• Trent Franks' Latest: Barack Obama's "Ideological Commitment" to "Weaken America"

  published Dec 01, 2010

  The fun comes about 53 seconds in The lefty blog Political Correction is pimping this video of Arizona Congressman Trent "Hoof-in-Gob" Franks on the House floor warning the American public of the "id... More >>

• Don Bivens Should Say Bye-Bye as Democratic Party Chair in 2011, but Who Should Replace Him?

  published December 2, 2010

  THERE SHOULD BE BLOOD Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens needs to exit stage right,... More >>

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  Russell Pearce, Enemy of the U.S. Constitution

  published Nov 30, 2010

  Pearce regurgitates a nativist whopper on the "original intent" of the 14th Amendment during an October presser Of all the grotesque lies spewed by the nativist right in its effort to undo birt... More >>