Arizona has changed. Republicans have retreated behind the barricades and are firing blank squibs at November's election and tightening election procedures. Having two Democratic senators in Congress makes them bewildered and nervous. They are pinning their hopes on the crazies and a cooked up audit and sending their cash to Trump to try to breath new life into him. It's a sad spectacle of a party once led by Presidential contenders like McCain and Goldwater. What hasn't changed is The Arizona Republic. It maintains its Republican leadership, quietly promoting right wing editorial writers in the hope of keeping its Republican readership on board. Their reaction to change is to promote an Hispanic and a Black sports writer to the board, holding their noses at the same time. There are rumblings of discontent further down the ranks but the newspaper drops on Arizona doorsteps with a leaden thump. More puzzles seems to be the answer. Humor is confined to the cartoons except when Laurie Roberts starts tearing her hair out at the stupid shenanigans going on politically. Where are you, Benson, Bland or the late Thompson? Should the winds of change be blowing through our newspaper?