Reporter Joe Ferguson of Arizona Agenda at DGT

by Carolyn Classen, blogger

“Please join us for a chat with veteran Arizona political reporter Joe Ferguson, who recently joined Arizona Agenda newsletter about recent developments and trends in Arizona politics and journalism.

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Joe will be familiar to political junkies who followed Joe’s reporting on local government and politics at the Arizona Daily Star. For those who weren’t reading the papers before 2020, you’d be hard-pressed to find another reporter in Tucson who knows as much about local politics as Joe does.

He was knocking around Tucson when the likes of Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Chuck Huckelberry were in charge. He challenged Republicans and Democrats alike, all part of his training under longtime former editor Joe Burchell at the Star.

Back then, whenever there was anything political going on, chances are Joe was either sitting in the front row or badgering the people who wouldn’t let him in.

When he worked with Curt in the Star newsroom, Joe was always digging through troves of data or finding new ways to report on local government shenanigans. He was the guy we all went to when our beats touched on the City of Tucson or Pima County.”

Carolyn’s note: Joe Ferguson had been a reporter for AZ Daily Star, then was appointed Pima County Constable (Precinct 9) in Feb. 2020 (but lost in August Dem primary 2020). He most recently served as a deputy administrator at the Green Valley Justice Court (Precinct 7) under Justice of the Peace Ray Carroll (R). Now Joe has returned to reporting for the online Tucson Agenda, https://tucsonagenda.substack.com/.