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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2011 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  Tom Horne's Office Farmed Ethnic Studies Legal Work to Contributors

  published Dec 30, 2011

  As reported in a previous blog, Administrative Law Judge Lewis Kowal recently upheld Arizona Schools' Superintendent John Huppenthal's finding that Tucson Unified School District's Mexican American St... More >>

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  Ethnic Studies at TUSD on the Ropes Till Federal Judge Rules

  published Dec 29, 2011

  Los Tigres del Norte, apparently not to Judge Kowal's liking...Is there any doubt save in the most muddled of noggins that Arizona's Latino population continues to dwell beneath the bootheel of a host... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio's Obituary, with Funeral Service Schedule

  published Dec 28, 2011

  The Atencio family has released the following obituary and schedule of funeral services for their late family member Marty. The public can send flowers and cards in care of the address below for Heri... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio in MCSO's "Safe Cell": Mike Manning Comments

  published Dec 27, 2011

  Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the vi... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Latest Victim Marty Atencio: MCSO Video of His Detention

  published Dec 24, 2011

  Video of the Atencio tragedy, taken by videographer Dennis Gilman from hours of MCSO footage. Please note: There is no sound. Last week, Marty Atencio's brother Mike told me that he and his family bel... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Expectant Mom-Shackling Earns Him Another Lawsuit

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Living in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Maricopa County is like living in a medieval version of the movie Groundhog Day, where each morning one awakens with further reminders that we do not live in the civili... More >>

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  Marty Atencio Dead, Blood Tests Show Him Free of Illicit Drugs, Lawyer Says

  published Dec 21, 2011

  Yesterday, the family of Ernest "Marty" Atencio, who was brutally Tased in Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Fourth Avenue Jail last week, removed their loved one from life support.  According to the f... More >>

• Arpaio Corruption: The Feds Have Spoken, But Justice Won't Be Served Until the Sheriff's Indicted

  published December 22, 2011

  Jack MacIntyre is paid more than $120,000 a year to justify and rationalize the ill deeds for which his boss, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ultimately is... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's Latest Victim: Phoenix Police Issue Statement

  published Dec 19, 2011

  The following is a statement issued by Phoenix Police Department spokesman Steve Martos, regarding the arrest of Ernest "Marty" Atencio.Martos states that Atencio was arrested for assault after displ... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio and MCSO "Murdered" Ernest "Marty" Atencio, Says Family

  published Dec 18, 2011

  A distraught Mike Atencio, on his way to the hospital to watch his brother Ernest "Marty" Atencio die, told me today that he and his family believe his brother was "murdered" by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's t... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Latest Victim Rushed to Hospital (w/Updates, Including Victim's Name, Mugshot and More)

  published Dec 17, 2011

  Note: For Updates, including the name and mugshot of the victim, see below.Following on the heels of a report by the U.S. Department of Justice condemning the MCSO for engaging in "discriminatory poli... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Jails Off Limits to Federal Immigration Detainees, John Morton Tells Bill Montgomery

  published Dec 16, 2011

  In case Sheriff Joe Arpaio missed the gist of the fiat handed down Thursday by U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ending Arpaio's 287(g) jails agreement, John Morton, Director... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Hammered by Politicians, Activists Praising DOJ Report

  published Dec 15, 2011

  Flanked by community activists and fellow elected leaders at her El Portal restaurant in central Phoenix, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox held aloft the recently-released U.S. Department o... More >>

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  Russell Pearce, Crybaby Loser, Can't Yet "Forgive" Jerry Lewis For Whuppin' Him

  published Dec 14, 2011

  In a grotesque mix of Freudian projection, denial, all-out hubris and crass hypocrisy, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce has told the Arizona Capitol Times that he's trying to "forgive" Jerry L... More >>

• ALEC, Phoenix Cops, and Video of Demonstrators at the Westin Kierland

  published Dec 14, 2011

  The Stones' "Street Fighting Man" comes to mind...Intriguing video by activist/videographer Dennis Gilman of the fray at the ALEC conference between demonstrators and Phoenix police. While it's hardly... More >>

• Don't Bet on Arpaio Resigning Over the El Mirage Botched Sex-Crime Cases

  published December 15, 2011

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio pulled yet another ho-hum raid on a restaurant franchise recently, hunting illegal immigrants. At a Si Senor Mexican eatery... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Resignation Sought at Board of Supervisors Meeting Wednesday

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Call it the revenge of Randy Parraz. The man who organized the end of former state Senate President Russell Pearce's Career is returning -- MacArthur-like -- to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisor... More >>

• Joe Arpaio Resignation: Online Petition Demands Sheriff Take a Powder

  published Dec 09, 2011

  It's pile-on time for that infamous ignorer of sex-crimes cases, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and, boy, does the near-80 autocrat ever deserve the abuse.Democratic Congressmen and state legislators are callin... More >>

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  Jan Brewer's Top Sycophant, SRP Lobbyist Russell Smoldon, and ResistALEC's "Sleeping Dragon"

  published Dec 08, 2011

  One unfortunate aspect of the occupation of the Salt River Project's Tempe headquarters last week was that the activists involved were not able to pull off a similar action at the Westin Kierland Reso... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Resignation Drive Endorsed by Congressman Ed Pastor

  published Dec 08, 2011

  Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona's 4th District has joined the ranks of Sand Land politicians calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's resignation over the MCSO's mishandling of more than 400 sex crimes cases... More >>

• A Hotshot Phoenix Attorney Finds Love Behind Bars

  published December 8, 2011

  Phoenix attorney Carmen Fischer has a thing for bad boys. Really bad boys. You may vaguely recall her name making headlines in 1999... More >>

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  Jan Brewer's Scorpion Lies, Part I

  published Dec 07, 2011

  See any "screaming kids" chained to the state Capitolr  Obviously, there's limited room in New Times' print edition to attack all the lies, myths, falsehoods, and half-truths promulgated by Gover... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Case: Summary Judgment Hearing Set for December 22

  published Dec 02, 2011

  If there were Black Hole of Calcutta for bad sheriffs, is there any doubt that Joe Arpaio would be in itr Arpaio, the biggest un-indicted criminal in Arizona, is responsible for so much malfeasan... More >>

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  Jan Brewer's Arrogant Bull at ALEC's GOP-Corporate Love Fest

  published Dec 01, 2011

  I kept waiting for her nose to start sprouting. Because when you tell whoppers like Governor Jan Brewer did at the American Legislative Exchange Council's opening luncheon at the Westin Kierland Resor... More >>

• Jan Brewer's Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints Her as a Tough-as-Nails Governor

  published December 1, 2011

  As most Arizonans know, Governor Jan Brewer's maiden name is Drinkwine. Wags had plenty of fun with that — and with Brewer's... More >>