Bill Johnson

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Bill Johnson gained most of his journalistic experience on the West Coast as a staff writer, reporter, editor and columnist. He has also been a faculty member of the University of Arizona's Editing Program for Minority Journalists within the Institute for Journalism Education. Johnson won the National Headliner Award's First Place for Columns in 1995 and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for commentary in 1993.

Recent stories

JOHNSON: When a paper dies, there are no winners

February 27, 2009

People cried hard today.

JOHNSON: Sacked for a loss over plastic bag rant

February 25, 2009

This is why I know I would make a lousy politician: I can see way too many sides of a given issue, and it virtually paralyzes me.

JOHNSON: Readers speak up for rec center

February 21, 2009

Helping to save the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center at 38th Avenue and Newport Street from the meddling and outsourcing hands of government is, OK, just one of my more recent obsessions.

JOHNSON: Dog shot on purpose? Seemed unlikely

February 20, 2009

There is a man and a little dog, both of whom find themselves alone in a tiny bedroom.

JOHNSON: For this crowd, motorcade is enough

February 18, 2009

I went for the motorcade. I've seen only three in person, and I love them.

JOHNSON: Sister hopes 'box baby' mystery solved

February 14, 2009

It has taken 53 years, but I have finally solved the "Baby in the Box" mystery.

JOHNSON: School workers give kids a break

February 13, 2009

The big man, the one in the paint- spattered uniform shirt and blue jeans, is literally dancing in his square and giggling like a child as he waits for the ball.

JOHNSON: For many, rec center a social lifeline

February 11, 2009

Maybe this is what the fallout of tough economic times will be: an increasingly cash-strapped city looking to shutter or outsource facilities like the Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center.

JOHNSON: In this line, every bit of 'downturn' is much too real

February 6, 2009

To those of us still with a tenuous grasp on our jobs, the so-called "ongoing economic crisis" can be a rather nebulous concept.

JOHNSON: 'No one in town was more loved'

February 4, 2009

They began arriving shortly after sunrise Saturday, each of them holding a few flowers, maybe a basket of tea roses, a balloon or a sign they had drawn up in the hours since it occurred.