These are unprecedented times.
As COVID-19 spreads across our community, people are falling sick in our community, with more to come. Our children’s schools have closed. Our concert venues gone dark. Our bars have been shuttered and our restaurants are limited to take-out service. Many of our small businesses are being pushed to the absolute limit.
For more than three-and-a-half decades, Tucson Weekly has been telling you stories about Southern Arizona. We pride ourselves on delivering local news you won’t find anywhere else about local government, politics, the arts, music, film, restaurants and much more.
Now our award-winning journalists are bringing you up-to-date local news on the developing crisis.
But we face a crisis of our own. Much of our revenue is based on bringing people together—and for now, we are being asked to stay apart. Our distribution network is based on you picking up a copy of our paper in a restaurant, a bar, a library or wherever you find it when you go out. You can see how we have a problem here.
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This article appears in Mar 19-25, 2020.
I think TW should support me for wasting my time with articles containing little balance or journalistic integrity, more and more often your staff extends an agenda that represents a small minority of our community. As a provider of community functions and information I give you a passing grade, yet feel your core market: students, 4th ave business owners, users of cannabis, the KTS crowd are not reflective of the larger city. Rather than just hit the dislike comment button, stand up and send this paper a non deductible donation, or do nothing and let the market decide…
So funny that the Tucson weekly is asking for support after refusing to offer theirs to the women and men of Tucson who have been victims of an abuser and rapist. They did a cover story on a real piece of work of a human and glorified his violent bottom feeding behavior then told one of his victims to suck it because he deserved to be acknowledged. I hope no one supports this shitty newsletter.