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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2012 Stories by Stephen Lemons

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  FEATURED STORY

  Arizona's Top Ten News Stories of 2012

  published Dec 31, 2012

  All in all, 2012 hasn't been that bad of a year. Some good stuff transpired, and some of it happened because New Times' scribes made it happen. Usually to some very deserving recipients. The great ... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Top Ten Reasons for Wanting to Be a Neo-Confederate

  published Dec 29, 2012

  Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks it's an honor to be called KKK, rememberr So why is anyone surprised that in 2011 he accepted the Sons of Confederate Veterans' J. Edgar Hoover Law and Order Award, appar... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Scores Lame Summary Judgment Against Sal Reza in Federal Court (w/Update)

  published Dec 28, 2012

  You could say Russell Pearce beat the lawsuit (for now), but lost his career. Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Martone sided with recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's "Wee Man" Rob Haney Crushed Like a Bug

  published Dec 27, 2012

  Outgoing Maricopa County Republican Party Chair Rob Haney, slavish BFF to recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has had his wrinkled, leprechaun fanny handed to him by the no... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Mad Elf Rob Haney: Sued on Christmas Eve

  published Dec 26, 2012

  What two things do Maricopa County GOP Chairman Rob Haney and erstwhile Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong have in commonr Each despises democracy, and each boasts a brain dipped in formal... More >>

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  Bill Montgomery's Ghost of Christmas Present: Injustice

  published Dec 24, 2012

  If there were a law against keeping parents from their children for no good reason on Christmas, or any other day, then Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, and many of his functionaries, would... More >>

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  NRA's Wayne LaPierre and Neo-Nazi Agree on Sandy Hook Solution: More Guns

  published Dec 21, 2012

  It's dang encouraging to learn that the National Rifle Association's top propagandist Wayne LaPierre is practically on the same page as Maricopa, Arizona neo-Nazi Harry Hughes regarding what the nat... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  John McCain Meets Neo-Nazi and Onetime J.T. Ready-Sidekick Harry Hughes

  published Dec 21, 2012

  Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes is like the National Socialist Movement's version of the traveling gnome in those Travelocity.com commercials. See also: -Why Authorities Could've Prevented J.T. Ready's Murde... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio's Birther Bud Tom Morrissey Punks Out of GOP Chair Race; Russell Pearce Could Still Play Spoiler to Bob Graham

  published Dec 20, 2012

  GOP blogging badass Jeff Vath of PolitocoMafioso fame was the first to report the news that Arizona Republican Party Chair Tom Morrissey is punking out on his bid for re-election at the party's Janu... More >>

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  Terry Goddard Wants to Be AG Againr Puh-lease

  published Dec 19, 2012

  For Terry Goddard, it must be tough going from Mayor of Phoenix to state Attorney General to gubernatorial candidate to, um, Central Arizona Water Conservation District board member. To be accurate... More >>

• Tom Horne May Triumph in Court, but Don't Count on a Win on Election Day

  published December 20, 2012

  Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne's lawyers,... More >>

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  Tom Horne's Hearings Rescheduled: Will the AG Beat the Rapr

  published Dec 18, 2012

  Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne's lawyers, who are battling both Horne's misdemeanor fender-bender charg... More >>

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  Jan Brewer Times Threer Ten Reasons Jan Should Run for an Unconstitutional Third Term

  published Dec 17, 2012

  Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped... More >>

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  Sandy Hook Slaughter: Adam Lanza's Mom, Ron Barber's Wisdom and Bob Lord's Petition

  published Dec 16, 2012

  Just like many of you, I've been transfixed this weekend watching the TV news coverage of the slaughter of the innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And like a bad... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Won't Do His Job, So Marshal David Gonzales Does It for Him

  published Dec 14, 2012

  What would it be like, I wonder, if Maricopa County had a sheriff who just kept his head down and did his job, rather than what we currently have, a corrupt gasbag who only cares about getting his c... More >>

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  Tom Horne and John Huppenthal's Ethnic Studies War: Fate of MAS in Federal Judge's Hands, Yet Again

  published Dec 13, 2012

  DA Morales of Three Sonorans fame channels Isaiah (beard and all), and gives the TUSD board an Old Testament-style tongue-lashing Will the anti-Mexican machinations of Arizona Attorney General Tom Ho... More >>

• S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery's Nativist Panderings

  published December 13, 2012

  Nativism, as a force in this state and beyond, must be crushed like a fat, hairy tarantula beneath a boot heel. So while I admire the... More >>

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  Medical Marijuana in Arizona a "Charade," and What's Wrong with That, Exactlyr

  published Dec 11, 2012

  See also: -Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State's First Authorized Medical-Marijuana Dispensary This is near-heresy to say in my current position as a scribe for an alternative publication, but w... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Leprechaun Rob Haney Flips Out, Invalidates LD 25 Election, Calls the Coppers

  published Dec 10, 2012

  I wish I'd been at the November 29 meeting of Legislative District 25 Republicans for the election of new officers and state committee-persons. All the haters were there, and the haters had their as... More >>

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  Top Ten Tom Horne Trucker Hat Slogans

  published Dec 07, 2012

  See also: -Arizona AG Tom Horne's Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid So Arizona Attorney General Tom "Hit-and-Run" Horne's got a Cuban cougar on the taxpayer's payroll with whom he can enjoy a ... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Arizona AG Tom Horne's Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid

  published December 6, 2012

  Picture Elmer Fudd as the lead in Oliver Stone's Nixon, and you've got Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in a nutshell. Truly,... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Slimy Bro Lester Pearce Censured and Fined by Commission on Judicial Conduct

  published Nov 28, 2012

  Irish wolfhound Tom Ryan lets the Pearces have it, and Judge Pearce nearly scraps with Dennis Gilman (@ 3:32) in this classic video from 2011 Add another scalp to the lodge wall. Recalled, disgraced ... More >>

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  Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Approves 2012 Election Canvass

  published Nov 26, 2012

  Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Elections Director Karen Osborne presented the official 2012 canvass to the Board of Supervisors today, and the BOS approved it after a discussion of the c... More >>

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  Black Friday Walmart Protests: A Frontline Report by Dennis Gilman

  published Nov 26, 2012

  Gilman's report from the front lines Wobblies, Unitarians, Occupy folks, and assorted concerned citizens converged on at least two Walmart locations in the Valley on Black Friday to protest the way t... More >>

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  Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair Ann Wallack Not Running for Re-Election

  published Nov 23, 2012

  Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair Ann Wallack will not be running for re-election this year when county Dems meet on Saturday, December 8 to elect new officers. Wallack, who has served as MCDP... More >>