By Clay Thompson, The Republic | azcentral.com
My friends, these are dark days, troubled times.
They are dark days and troubled times for my colleagues at the Gilbert Republic, this paper’s lonely outpost in the East Valley that fights for truth, justice and the American way against the forces of … the forces of, well whatever kind of forces it is they have out there in Gilbert.
Anyway, this is the problem: My colleagues in Gilbert do not know how to refer to people who live in Gilbert.