FROM THE EDITOR
W What happens next WE LIVE IN A TIME WHEN THE SYSTEMS WE rely on — economic, political, personal — are all showing signs of strain. Big policies ripple into small towns. Long-trusted institutions falter or fold. The paths we expected to follow twist suddenly. This issue is about what happens next. You’ll read about a desert In another piece by David Iversen, the collapse is swift and stark: a local water district effectively shut down after its senior staff resigned in protest. The reasons are complicated. The impact isn’t. When leadership falls apart, the burden lands on the people left behind — like customers forced to pay double to correct administrative failures. Monica D. Spencer also spent time with students trying to land summer jobs. It’s not easy. Applications vanish into digital voids. Schedules are patchworks. But the ones who make it work don’t just earn money — they get their first taste of independence and sometimes purpose. Then there’s my story, which reads like a fever dream. He killed a man at a California house fishmonger whose business got caught in the crosscurrents of international trade. A global tariff policy might sound distant and abstract, but for him, it shows up in the price of shrimp.
Publisher SCOTT BARTLE
Editorial Director ELIAS WEISS
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party. She committed a robbery on the Las Vegas Strip with Coolio’s son. And yet, after serving their time, they found each other again and started over in Maricopa — a reminder that even a homicide conviction doesn’t have to be the end of the road. Finally, we look at the next round
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of rural annexations in Maricopa. On paper, it’s about city boundaries. In practice, it’s about identity — how fast a place can grow before it stops feeling like itself. These stories show ordinary people responding to extraordinary shifts. Some
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WENDE GEHRT JUSTIN GRIFFIN DAVID IVERSEN DAYV MORGAN
adapt. Some walk away. Some spin off in unexpected directions. Somewhere between structure and disruption is where our best stories live.
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