Introduction
Hello. I am a Phoenix-based journalist who has served as a newspaper editor, columnist and reporter in Arizona, Hawaii and New Mexico. I’ve covered news, politics, business and sports for more than 20 years. I’m also one of the founders of the The Arizona Guardian news site.
I co-authored the East Valley Tribune’s five-day investigative series “Reasonable Doubt,” which has been awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, the George Polk Award for Justice Reporting, the Best of the West first place award for investigative reporting and the Arizona Press Club's Don Bolles Award for investigative reporting. The work also was selected as a finalist in the Investigative Reporters and Editors contest. It's all been quite an honor.
I worked with Tribune reporter Ryan Gabrielson on the series that examined the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s illegal-immigration enforcement operation, its threat to civil liberties and its hidden costs to county residents. The project was featured on the national PBS television show “NOW on PBS” on Friday, March 27, 2009, and on the PBS site “Exposé: America’s Investigative Reports.”
Since publication, the U.S. Department of Justice has launched its own investigation into the sheriff’s office for possible civil rights violations in association with its illegal immigration enforcement efforts. The FBI is on the case investigating possible criminal civil rights violations as well. Furthermore, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has started a series of investigative hearings, again for possible civil rights violations.
My work also has been published in The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and Boys’ Life magazine, among other publications. I have appeared as a guest on CNN, C-Span, NPR, WNYC radio and BBC radio, plus several Phoenix-area broadcast outlets.
Professional experience
news site that covers Arizona government and politics. January 2009 to present.
East
and House races and the heated immigration debate. Broke news that independent voters were
registering in Arizona at twice the rate of Republican and Democratic voters combined. Covered
the public ruckus outside a county Board of Supervisors meeting that was illegally closed by sheriff’s
deputies. January 2006 to January 2009.
• Metro columnist/reporter. Wrote columns on politics
people’s front yards. Detailed a teen boxer’s fight against racism at a city gym and uncovered the hidden
drug history of a
siphoning revenue from East Valley cities and distributing it to West Valley cities. December 2002 to
December 2005.
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during the Rodeo-Chediski wildfire near Show Low. May 2001 to December 2002.
• Reporter. Exposed the threat to air safety caused by plans to build the Arizona Cardinals football stadium
in the flight path of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Elicited a written confession in
the
The New York Times.
airport security measures
and a disabled Iraq War veteran’s try-out with the San Diego Padres baseball team. 2002 to present.
The
topics: Illegal immigrant drop houses, feral paint-sniffing children living in the sewers under the U.S.-Mexico
border and saguaro shootings. 1993 to 2005.
The
Major League Baseball coming to Phoenix. Wrote a weekly column on the tourism industry. 1993 to 1995.
Pacific Business News.
1992 to 1993.
The
and other sports. 1990 to 1992.
the Hawaii Golden Gloves state boxing tournament. 1989 to 1990.
Cactus League baseball and more. 1988 to 1989.
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