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Our 2,000-word story on Ducey’s sanctuary city proposal is now moot. Sorry.
On a few occasions in my stint as Managing Editor of the Capitol Times, I’ve gone home on Thursdays – the day we put the print edition to bed – worried that a change in circumstances will render one of our stories irrelevant. That came true Thursday in a big way, and it was too late to stop the presses.
Mark Flatten: Digging deep for decades to let in the sunshine
At the Goldwater Institute, Mark Flatten still works to dig up stories, but has the backing of a libertarian think tank that will take his work and advocate to right the wrongs he reports on.
Capitol Times named 2013 non-daily newspaper of the year
The Arizona Capitol Times was named non-daily Newspaper of the Year and the Arizona Republic was chosen daily Newspaper of the Year on Saturday in the Arizona Newspapers Association's 2013 Better Newspapers Contest.
Media landscape challenges the way newspapers deliver information
For more than 100 years, our state has been an attractive place for entrepreneurs and investment. From miners to bankers, it seems our business climate has been as attractive as our actual climate. But few businesses have been around longer than newspapers. In fact, nearly half of the state’s 12 oldest businesses are local newspapers.
Tempe mulls bond election for dam replacements
Tempe is mulling a $10.5 million bond election to help pay to replace the rubber dams at Tempe Town Lake.
Planners want light rail to run further into Mesa
Transit planners say they want the light rail line to run further into Mesa than what was originally planned.
Mesa wants pot shops away from public view
Medical marijuana shops will set up in Mesa but finding them may not be easy.
Reporter Mark Flatten examined 10,000 documents in discipline investigation
Mark Flatten's latest report for the Goldwater Institute presents cases where government employees have been put on paid leave for months while waiting for the state to discipline or fire them, but the most costly case to taxpayers was one the most difficult for the investigative reporter to uncover.
Judge OKs sale of Freedom’s Phoenix-area papers
MESA - Freedom Communication's sale of the East Valley Tribune in Mesa and the Daily Sun-News in Sun City to a Colorado-based media company was approved March 9 by a federal bankruptcy court judge in Delaware.
Freedom asks court to OK sale of Ariz. newspapers
MESA - Freedom Communications asked a bankruptcy judge on Feb. 16 to approve the sale of the East Valley Tribune and several other Phoenix-area publications for about $2 million.
EV Tribune offer expanded to include other papers
MESA - A Colorado company that offered to buy the East Valley Tribune from Freedom Communications has expanded its offer to include two other Phoenix-area newspapers in the proposed sale.
Bankruptcy filings show Tribune publisher earned $334,000 last year
It’s a familiar story these days: Top executives reaping disproportionately large salaries and mind-boggling bonuses while executing poor business strategies and laying off hordes of employees. It’s happened in the finance industry, construction, automobile manufacturing, computer software and beyond. But now, we can count the newspaper industry among them.
