The Arizona Daily Star made an interesting revelation on the front page of Saturday’s paper (PDF file.) The will not cover any local political news this Sunday or Monday.
Given much of their past coverage I am not sure the community is missing out on anything but why the blackout? The Star stated "It’s a way to ensure that coverage is fair to the end and keeps one side from making a last-minute statement the others can’t rebut." I think that is code for the senior editors want to take a few days off and the interns cannot be trusted right before election day. Believe me one side or the other will be making last-minute statements, through robo calls, mailers, or radio ads and Sonoran Alliance will happily cover the story. Candidates and campaigns are also free to correct our work in real time because we are a blog.
Which brings us to a correction. On October 23rd we slammed Daniel Patterson over the issue of habitat destruction by solar farms. Patterson corrected us and stated that he supports rooftop solar and is opposed to massive solar fields on public lands. Good, we agree with him on that matter. The question now is do Gabrielle Giffords and the rest of the Democrats using solar as this years wedge issue agree with Patterson or are they for trashing large tracks of desert with inefficient and costly solar panels?
