By Ray Stern | Phoenix New Times
How do you submit a My Turn column or letter to the editor to the Arizona Republic’s community opinion pages?
Trick question.
Don’t bother to submit anything. As of this week, the Republic’s community opinion sections no longer exist.
The move to eliminate those sections comes on the heels of a Gannett-wide downsizing that resulted in 29 people being laid off from The Arizona Republic. New Times named about half of those who got the ax in a blog post last Friday.
As we learned, the layoff’s aftermath is coming with a significant change for Republic readers and contributors. Not only are the broadsheet community sections now lacking the opinion pages, but so are the online community sites on azcentral.com. Clicking on the links to the website’s community opinion pages shows that no columns or letters have been published there since the end of July.
