No News is Bad News The bad economy and shrinking world of publications downed an Old West stalwart in mid-May. The Tucson Citizen, founded in 1870, bit the dust. Richard McCormick and John Wasson founded the weekly publication in 1870, making it the Republican Party voice of Pima County. In 1877, John Clum bought the paper and made it a daily. He left by 1880 to start the Epitaph in Tombstone. A year later, the Citizen carried the news about the O.K. Corral street fight. New owners hired for
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