About Us

Independent Newsmedia is a unique publishing and printing company that supports every American’s First Amendment rights and encourages and assists citizens in exercising those rights responsibly.

We pursue this mission by publishing community newspapers, by providing printing services to other publishers, and by creating citizen-driven community websites for the 21st Century and beyond. Our unique structure is designed to maintain our independence.

We pay taxes like any other company, but there are no shareholders, no dividends are paid, and all after-tax profits are reinvested in serving our mission. We are held in sacred trust by a rotating group of five trustees who believe in our mission and are pledged not to benefit personally from their involvement.

Our newspapers (18 all together)

Daily Independent
Anthem Independent
Apache Junction/Gold Canyon Independent
Buckeye Independent
Florence Independent
Goodyear Independent

Glendale Independent
Litchfield Park Independent
Mesa Independent
Northwest Valley Homes
Paradise Valley Independent
Peoria Independent

Queen Creek Independent
Scottsdale Independent
Sun City Independent
Sun City West Independent
Sun Life Magazine
Surprise Independent

Our pledge to our readers makes us different

We pledge:
• To operate our newspapers and websites as members of a sacred public trust.
• To report the news with honesty, accuracy, purposeful neutrality, fairness, objectivity, fearlessness and compassion.
• To use our opinion pages to facilitate community debate, not to push our own opinions.
• To provide the information citizens need to make their own intelligent decisions about public issues.
• To help our communities become better places to live and work, through our dedication to conscientious journalism.
• To treat people with courtesy, respect and compassion.
• To provide a right to reply to those we write about.
• To disclose our own conflicts of interest or potential conflicts to our readers.
• To correct our errors and to give each correction the prominence it deserves (on pg. 1 if that’s where the error was).

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Independent Newsmedia pursues a mission of journalistic service, commitment to the ideals of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and support of the community’s deliberation of public issues. We are a nonpartisan news organization that informs our readers about issues that impact their lives, their families and their neighborhoods.

We hope you enjoy the content of the Daily Independent at YourValley.net. We depend on subscribers like you to support our unbiased journalism and to keep civil, community dialogue alive in your community.

Thank you!

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Subscriber exclusive

City of Mesa pays $5M in claims

High-dollar settlements dot past 5 years

By Richard Dyer
Twitter: @RHDyer

Posted 4/20/21

The city of Mesa paid out more than $5 million on 509 claims and out-of-court settlements during the past five years, according to a review of its records.

The highest two are $600,000 paid out in …

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