When enterprises turn to only furthering their own agendas, they deserve to fail.
Not surprising.
The allow comments for articles bashing Arpaio and Thomas, yet on sites that involve criminals of a certain ethinic background or on illegals (migrants as they call them) they don’t allow comments.
Used to be a good paper, 20 years ago. Piece of Trash, for the most part now.
Those of us just to the north (Yavapai County) wish he worked up here, but recognize he is a great man in a really horrible environment (created by the press and the politicians :( )
and I DO NOT read the AZ Republic. Buy it, get the coupons for the missus, then toss it :)
I was in Phoenix for the weekend back in ‘97. I read one copy of that rag. That was plenty for me.
Glad to see that there are so many people who feel the same way I do about the Arizona Repugnant. In the 70’s it was a great newspaper but has been reaching for the bottom ever since.
It’s really a shame though, that so many still march blindly and robot-like to the polls with its slate clutched in their cold dead hands.
It is disturbing reading many of the editorials and op-eds in this newspaper about Sheriff Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas's attempts to prosecute Supervisors Stapley and Wilcox and investigate the Court Tower. The writers rush to judgment accusing Arpaio and Thomas of unethical behavior, without knowing the full facts. Only Arpaio and Thomas have seen the results of the investigations, search warrants and subpoenas... The public has a right to be skeptical of a $341 million state of the art, luxury Court Tower being built during a recession, while county agencies, including law enforcement, are forced to cut 15% of their budgets by laying off employees. With the exception of columnist Laurie Roberts, this newspaper has failed to ask the hard questions, and even her questions have gone unanswered. Why is this luxury tower being built even though the county cannot afford it?Thanks Fenix Guy.
Is that really so outlandish? Who has enough money to do that?
Think about it. We are always assuming ideology and bias, and there's plenty of that...but what would buy this kind of stubborn refusal better than cash? Somebody's paying somebody off.
They will never write anything good about JD Hayworth either. In fact they campaign against him.
What have always found interesting (regardless of how one might feel about “Sheriff Joe”) is that a county sheriff has great power. Modern usage in the media and pop usage just tends to conflate the police department and the sheriff department, but they are two totally different critters.
Arizona taxpayers owed $1 billion from illegal immigration
http://www.kvoa.com/news/arizona-taxpayers-owed-1-billion-from-illegal-immigration/
The cost of illegal immigration has exhausted the Arizona State Treasury. In order to pay for the federal government’s responsibility of securing our national borders and incarcerating individuals who enter the United States illegally and commit crimes, the state has incurred hundreds of millions of dollars of debt to pay these bills,” said Treasurer Dean Martin.