Rim Country Gazette

Monday, November 29, 2010

Mogollon Connection suspends publication
but the flame will not be extinguished

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Many of you have asked what's happened to the Mogollon Connection. Sadly, publication has been suspended -- at least temporarily. As was the case with the Rim Country Gazette, difficult economic times and a competitor backed by big bucks have combined to stifle a much needed second voice in our community.

To Matt and Mitzi Brabb and the rest of the staff of the Connection, my personal thanks for a valiant effort. I couldn't be more proud of them if they were my own children, and trite as the well-worn words of sportswriter Grantland Rice sometimes seem, they still say it about as well as it can be said:

"For when the One Great Scorer comes,
To write against your name,
He marks - not that you won or lost -
But how you played the Game."

And so the community is left with a single print voice that does not always present both sides of issues that are critical to our future. I will not read it, and a lot of you have told me you feel the same way. That is sad.

But the Rim Country Gazette Blog will continue and your patronage and contributions are much appreciated. Mitzi and Matt have promised to contribute to the blog as they can, and your comments, rants, letters and any other inspirations or insights you care to express will be published here without censorship.

In the meantime, Noble Collins and I are working on an exciting new concept for the blog that we hope to introduce soon.

If there's any solace in all of this, it's that as hard as they blow -- and they have blown mightily, this little flame just won't go out.

Jim Keyworth
Blog Editor