Fountain Hills’ Mayor Friedel should get more coverage
Apparently not all new mayors are treated equally.
In the Dec. 11 edition of the Fountain Hills Times Independent appeared a tiny stock photo of our new Mayor Gerry Friedel, who won the election by a substantial margin. Friedel's photo was placed on the top corner of the front page, with a notation the article about the town's new mayor was inside on page 30. By comparison, on Dec. 4, the Town of Paradise Valley Independent ran a massive front-page photo, literally half of the front page, of PV's smiling new mayor. Glowing copy followed about his 10 years on the council with the remainder of the article jumped inside to page 8.
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