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 - 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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2010 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• Russell Pearce's Police State Bill SB 1070 Goes to Committee of the Whole and Third Read Tuesday

  published Apr 12, 2010

  The state House has just posted the agendas for its Committee of the Whole and Third Reads for Tuesday: Russell Pearce's police state legislation SB 1070 is the first order of business. Pearce ... More >>

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  Russell Pearce, Hold Up! Sheriff Ralph Ogden of Yuma County Speaks Out on the Cost of SB 1070

  published Apr 12, 2010

  Yuma County Sheriff Ralph Ogden is urging legislators to hold off on passing state Senator Russell Pearce's immigration bill SB 1070, saying that his county would have to pick up the tab for tr... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Falsehoods, Inaccuracies and Inventions on Channel 12's Sunday Square-Off

  published Apr 11, 2010

  Watching state Senator Russell Pearce defend his police state bill SB 1070 on Channel 12's Sunday Square-Off with Brahm Resnik, I was reminded of what state Representative Daniel Patterson (D-Tu... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Promises Anti-Immigrant Sweep in Three Weeks, and Russell Pearce Struggles to Get His Police State Legislation Passed

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Look out Latinos, whether or not you're a citizen, or otherwise here legally. Sheriff Joe's announced that his next anti-immigrant dragnet will occur within the next three weeks, according to... More >>

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  No Concealed Carry Permits Neededr Worry About the Paranoid White Men

  published Apr 09, 2010

  Arizona is a state of cowardly little white men with handguns. They need their guns to prove their manhood. Without them, they have nothing but fear.This is one reason why Sand Land remains so benight... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's State-Funded Vigilante Force, and the Democrats Who Rolled Over for It

  published Apr 08, 2010

  State Senator Russell Pearce, along with his colleague state Senator Al Melvin, have added an amendment to a bill that creates an anti-immigrant vigilante force on the Arizona-Mexico border, and grant... More >>

• David Cavazos, Phoenix City Manager, Says Endangered Career Criminal Squad Will Remain (w/Update)

  published Apr 07, 2010

  The men of the Phoenix Police Department's Career Criminal Squad will be able to continue their work, investigating violent, street-level hate crimes according to City Manager David Cavazos.The squad,... More >>

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  Glenn Beck Invades Glendale on God Tour, Would Thomas Jefferson Have Approvedr

  published Apr 07, 2010

  First it was WrestleMania, now Glendale will be playing host to another form of white trash entertainment, though boring and preachy by comparison.This Saturday, April 10, wingnut lip-flapper extraord... More >>

• Geraldo Rivera Features Joe Arpaio, Mary Rose Wilcox and Marshmallow-Mouthed Bigot Russell Pearce

  published Apr 06, 2010

  Arpaio, Wilcox and Pearce on GeraldoIn case you missed it, here's video from Geraldo Rivera's March 29 show on Fox, where he takes on Sheriff Joe for the umpteenth time, and features footage of Marico... More >>

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  Robert Krentz's Murder Exploited by Nativists, While Shawna Forde Is Conveniently Forgotten

  published Apr 05, 2010

  The dastardly murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz has sent the nativists into public paroxysms of jingoist ecstasy. Tom Tancredo, J.D. Hayworth and others of that ilk are exploi... More >>

• Easter Bunny Disables Photo Radar for Several Hours: Catch the Video by Jason Shelton

  published Apr 05, 2010

  Peter Cottontail's hoppin' mad about photo radar... These anti-photo radar activists rock like Amadeus. Back in December, it was a passel of renegade Santas attacking photo radar cameras in Tem... More >>

• Joe Arpaio and the Feds: Grand Jury Investigating SCA Account, Possible Extortion Charges, Reports Channel 12

  published Apr 02, 2010

  Joe Dana's report on the ongoing federal grand jury probe of ArpaioChannel 12's Joe Dana reported last night on the federal grand jury investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Chief Deputy David Hendersho... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Secret Immigration File: Rants, Threats, and Hate Site Literature

  published Apr 02, 2010

  During Sheriff Joe Arpaio's December deposition in the ongoing racial-profiling lawsuit Melendres vs. Arpaio, the sheriff revealed that he had kept a personal file on immigration-related mat... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Police State Bill Passes MAPS Committee (Again); All Persons in Arizona Could Be Required To Prove They Are Not Illegal

  published Mar 31, 2010

  State Senator Russell Pearce's police state bill, SB 1070, passed the House Military Affairs and Public Safety committee again today, after a three hour session of testimony, with state Representative... More >>

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  Russell Pearce for Sheriffr Yes, It Could Get Worse than Joe Arpaio

  published Mar 30, 2010

  There's been a whiff of brimstone in the air with the rumor that state Senator Russell Pearce, the most bigoted public servant in Arizona (and that's saying a lot), has been actively lobbying Maricopa... More >>

• Councilman Michael Johnson Cozies up to the Nation of Islam; and the Fault Line Between Brown and Black in Maricopa County

  published April 1, 2010

  MICHAEL X? Of all the ironies in the fallout from Councilman Michael Johnson's alleged... More >>

• Barack Obama's Quota on Non-Criminal Aliens: 400,000 Per Year, Get Them Where You Can

  published Mar 29, 2010

  Gilman's latest on Obama's hypocrisyYou might as well put a bounty on their heads. The undocumented, I mean. Though Barack Obama came to power dismissing as ludicrous the idea that we can "deport... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Critic Daniel Patterson Booted from MAPS Committee. Whyr Because He Questioned Pearce.

  published Mar 29, 2010

  Is it a mere coincidence that state Senator Russell Pearce's chief critic on the House Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee, Representative Daniel Patterson of Tucson, has been removed from th... More >>

• Joe Arpaio on False McDonald's Arrest: Take All Brown People into Custody, Release Citizens Later

  published Mar 27, 2010

  Arpaio shrugs off his arrest of an innocent American girlIf you're Hispanic in Maricopa County, Sheriff Joe's goons have probable cause to arrest you on suspicion of being undocumented. Hey, they can ... More >>

• Jesse Jackson Speaks of the Shared Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics to Puente's Sandra Castro

  published Mar 27, 2010

  Puente activist Sandra Castro's interview with Rev. Jesse JacksonI want to turn your attention to these two videos by Sandra Castro, an activist in Sal Reza's Puente Movement, which is based here in P... More >>

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  Janet Napolitano Gives Lip Service to Immigration Reform at ASU, while Partnering with Joe Arpaio

  published Mar 26, 2010

  About 50 protesters from groups such as Puente and the newly formed LUCHA (Living United for Change in Arizona) demonstrated against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano as... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's Nativist Attorney Kris Kobach Gets $300 Per Hour, Plus Expenses, Plus Air Fare, to Advise MCSO

  published Mar 25, 2010

  Kris Kobach, the far right-wing nativist attorney Sheriff Joe Arpaio's hired to train the MCSO in immigration matters, is receiving $300 per hour, plus expenses, including airline tickets to and from ... More >>

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  Eric Holder on Joe Arpaio Probe: DOJ Expects "Results," Investigation Ongoing

  published Mar 25, 2010

  With demonstrators outside the Phoenix federal courthouse clamoring for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today characterized the Department of Justice investigation i... More >>

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  CBS 5 News Reports on the Fight to Save the Career Criminal Squad

  published Mar 25, 2010

  CBS 5's Peter Busch did a segment for last night's news on the fight to save the Career Criminal Squad, a squad of four detectives and one sergeant that goes undercover to investigate street-level hat... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Indictment Called for by Mary Rose Wilcox in New Video, and Puente's Protest of Eric Holder

  published Mar 24, 2010

  Video of Mary Rose Wilcox in D.C. by videographer Dennis GilmanTelling the crowd at the big immigration rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C. that Sheriff Joe runs Maricopa County like a "police state,"... More >>