Conflict of Interest?

The leadership of the APS pays the Journal/Trib a lot of money every year.

When a request for the public records of public resources flowing into the Journal and Trib, was sent to Rigo Chavez, APS' custodian of public records; the requested records were not surrendered.

The Journal/Trib steadfastly refuse to investigate or report upon issues surrounding the complete lack of accountability to any meaningful standard of conduct, of the leadership of the APS .

They refuse to investigate and report upon, for example,
the controversy over the scope of the upcoming administrative audit. A number of the leadership of the APS are bound and determined that the audit will not audit the record of their conduct and competence as public servants.

Their record will not stand public scrutiny; they are in fact, damned by their record.

It is to their advantage that neither the Journal nor the Trib reveal that there is a controversy over the scope of the upcoming audit. So far, the Journal and Trib have obliged.

While the Journal and Trib are not accountable to any standard of conduct that prohibits their participation in situations that stink of a conflict of interest;
the leadership of the APS is.

...at least in theory.