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From the desk of Robert Rappaport on Thursday, September 24th 2009 at 11:50

MOSEY ON OVER TO OUR HOME PAGE

We've added a local news area to the front page at AZPM.org, but let's get some things straight first.

We're not chasing ambulances, monitoring traffic accidents or tallying shootings and murders. Quite frankly, we don't have the resources, nor the desire, for blood and guts. That is why you don't hear many of these stories on the air. We're an alternative to that, but I'm preaching to the choir, as they say.

What you will find are stories that we feel are important to you, or stories that just don't fit in with our normal broadcasts (although they could). They won't necessarily be the late-breaking stories you'll find at the local newspaper's site. Our staffing won't allow us to compete with that, so there's no use in trying. This is sort of in "test mode" now and the final product we'll roll out in a few months will look much different and have much more content. Think "NPR," if that helps.

Admittedly, it will be a slow process, but we hope to get more stuff to you each day and the older stories will fall off (when I remove them). I'm pretty much the gatekeeper of this area for now, so let me know what you think?

I'm not here to promote stuff or make you feel good, but beyond that, I'm open to ideas.

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