Stephen Lemons
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Phoenix, AZ, United States
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Cindy McCain to Head U.N. Food Program Despite Checkered Past
Politico reports Cindy McCain will head the U.N. World Food Program, in spite of a checkered past marred by opioid theft and white saviorism. → Read More
Cato Inst.: How Pols 'Jawboned' Backpage, Punishing Noncompliance
A Cato Institute paper on the government's bullying of social media touches on Backpage; the full story is far more chilling. → Read More
Feds' Misconduct Warrants Dismissal, Argues Lacey/Larkin Appeal
Prosecutors ignored a judge's repeated orders to stay away from inflammatory material in the Lacey/Larkin trial, thereby goading a mistrial. → Read More
Reason Magazine Crushes Maggy Krell's Claim of Taking Down Backpage
Elizabeth Nolan Brown steamrolls Maggy Krell's book, "Taking Down Backpage," smashing Krell's claim that she destroyed the listings giant. → Read More
Once Upon a Time ... in Tempe: The Early Days of Phoenix New Times
Fifty years ago this week, the Kent State Massacre inspired a band of 20-something rebels to found Phoenix New Times. → Read More
South Phoenix Mom-and-Pops Worry About Lost Business If Prop 105 Fails
Whether 105 passes, I plan to spend more time eating my way through south Phoenix and soaking up the barrio vibe down there while it lasts. Should the voters say no to the initiative, it should be incumbent on all those in favor of the project to do likewise. → Read More
As Gannett Mulls Monstrous Merger With GateHouse, Republic Staff Mulls Union
The Arizona Republic's parent company, Gannett, is reportedly in talks to merge with another media giant, GateHouse, while the Republic's reporters consider joining a union. → Read More
Bisbee Blogger Once Again Clobbers Cochise County Prosecutor
On June 13, a three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the former publisher of the Cochise County Record. → Read More
Commentary: In the Battle Between Gannett and Digital First Media, Root for Neither
Would you rather be eaten alive by wild boars, or dismembered slowly, with appendages being sliced off year by year until your disembodied noggin is left to rot in the desert sun? Between those two fates, you'd have to choose the latter, which is why anyone who cares about Arizona journalism grudgingly favors... → Read More
Mueller Report Aside, Julian Assange's Arrest Is a Danger to Us All
In the wake of the arrest of Julian Assange, too many on the left want to punish the WikiLeaks founder for hurting Hillary Clinton's campaign, forgetting the greater good he did before 2016 → Read More
Experts: ASU's $140M Return on $28M 'Investment' in Omni Deal Screws K-12
The school is protesting an amended complaint Brnovich filed in state tax court last week — the latest volley in the AG's ongoing crusade to bring university president Michael Crow's vaunted "New American University" to heel. ASU released a statement accusing the pugnacious Republican of "cherry-picking" facts... → Read More
Mark Brnovich Aims to End Michael Crow’s Crony Capitalism, and That’s a Good Thing
Arizona State University president Michael Crow is intent on indirectly gifting the Republican hotelier $21 million in tax breaks as part of a deal allowing Rowling to build a 30,000-square-foot conference center on university land at the southeast corner of University Drive and Mill Ave. → Read More
Attorney General: ASU Sweetened Omni Hotel Deal with $28M Gift
The new complaint adds fresh accusations of wrongdoing to a lawsuit that the AG's office filed in January. → Read More
Matt and Tawni Browning Help Lead Cult Victims to Freedom in Escaping Polygamy
Phoenix couple will be on the fifth season of the Lifetime network show, which begins April 1. → Read More
Bisbee Blogger Battles County Attorney’s Push to Unpublish Grand Jury Transcript
David Morgan, a southern Arizona news blogger with a reputation for needling government officials is battling the Cochise County Attorney's Office over his publishing of a grand jury transcript. The case was accepted by the Arizona Court of Appeals following Morgan's win last year in a lower court. → Read More
Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Dodges the Needle for Murder; Jurors Saw No Hate Crime
After deliberating for less than a day, the jury in the trial of neo-Nazi Travis Ricci, a jury of six men and six women sentenced Ricci to life in prison for the racially-motivated, 2009 slaying of Kelley Ann Jaeger. → Read More
Cindy 'Sherlock' McCain’s False Claim Is Symptom of Human Trafficking Hysteria
John McCain’s widow peddles hysteria on the issue of human trafficking, and the most glaring example is her recent actions at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, when she told cops that she suspected a traveler was kidnapping a child. Police said no crime had occurred, and the incident was similar to others... → Read More
Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Guilty of Murder in 2009 Attack on Interracial Couple
A jury in downtown Phoenix delivered a guilty verdict to neo-Nazi Travis Ricci today for the racially-motivated, 2009 drive-by slaying of Kelley Ann Jaeger. → Read More
Retrial of Neo-Nazi Travis Ricci Begins as Nation Reels From Pittsburgh Hate Killings
The mother of two had been walking near Palma Park in Phoenix’s Sunnyslope neighborhood with Jeffery Wellmaker, an African-American man, when Ricci allegedly emerged, shirtless from the darkness, challenging Wellmaker with curses and racial slurs. → Read More
The Defiant Ones: New Times’ Founders Fire Back at Cindy McCain, U.S. Government
Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, former owners of both Phoenix New Times and the online listings giant Backpage.com, spoke for the first time since the FBI seized the Backpage.com website in an interview with Reason magazine. → Read More