Stephen Lemons

Stephen Lemons covers Arizona news and politics for New Times with support from the grant-funded Arizona Watchdog Project. You can contact him at stephenlemons76@yahoo.com.

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Joe Arpaio’s 94th birthday party was rife with scuzzy has-beens

By Stephen Lemons

Rachel Mitchell holding a microphone

How Maricopa County’s top prosecutor got her loudest critic disbarred

By Stephen Lemons

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Petersen calls Glassman a ‘criminal,’ gay-bashes Kris Mayes at debate

By Stephen Lemons

mike von gold

Rodney Glassman’s brother sued by former business partner

By Stephen Lemons

a photo of warren petersen next to a photo of rodney glassman

Petersen allies pushing decades-old, unproven sex claim about Glassman

By Stephen Lemons

todd lyons speaks at a conference

The most ghoulish things we saw at the Phoenix Border Security Expo

By Stephen Lemons

a black and white close up of a man's face. he wears sunglasses, which are in color and show the reflection of an exotic dancer on a stripper pole

How Scottsdale cops botched a probe into a strip club drugging scheme

By Stephen Lemons

a man in a suit speaks at a podium, flanked by two other men -- one in a polo and another in a police vest

Pinal County Attorney’s top investigator body-slammed Black teen

By Stephen Lemons

Google claws back money from Turning Point-aligned PAC in SRP election

By Stephen Lemons

kris mayes and tom horne in side-by-side photos

Mayes, Horne sued for bungling ESA fraud prosecution of innocent man

By Stephen Lemons

a man in a suit and a close-cropped haircut looks down while seated in a crowd

Embattled Pinal County prosecutor’s top investigator is disgraced cop

By Stephen Lemons

brad miller and kris mayes

Mayes may probe Pinal County Attorney over Signal use, misusing funds

By Stephen Lemons

charlie kirk speaking at a podium

Gila County Attorney sued by man axed for ‘Rot in Hell Charlie Kirk’ post

By Stephen Lemons

pinal county attorney brad miller at a pro-ICE press conference

Pinal County Attorney used Signal to skirt public records law

By Stephen Lemons

brad miller

Right-wing Pinal County Attorney hit with sex discrimination claims

By Stephen Lemons

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Glendale official asked for cash while blasting council ‘slush fund’

By Stephen Lemons

elon musk

Arizona woman: Musk’s PAC owes me thousands for petition signatures

By Stephen Lemons

a sign showing kyrsten sinema putting on a rubber glove as a man labeled "chandler residents" bends over

Thumbs down: Chandler kills Sinema-backed data center in 7-0 vote

By Stephen Lemons

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Chandler data center project will use ‘unknown’ amount of water

By Stephen Lemons

jerry sheridan

Sheriff considered request to house ICE detainees in county jails

By Stephen Lemons

kyrsten sinema against a matrix-ish background with dollar signs on her eyes

Kyrsten Sinema is getting paid to push for a Chandler data center

By Stephen Lemons

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