Nick Martin, at Heat City, says that Bill Richardson, an ex-cop who blogged for the Republic on police matters, has been dropped by the Republic …and had his entire body of work expunged from the paper’s site, with no notice.

Any paper can publish whom it wants, of course. But with the Republic, there’s always something weird going on:

Richardson said one of the paper’s opinion editors, Joanna Allhands, called him Monday to tell him the blog was being yanked because of recent posts he had written about the Tempe Police Department.

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But reached by phone late Tuesday, Allhands flatly denied the move was made because of Richardson’s criticism of Tempe.

“No, that’s not correct,” she said when asked about the allegation. Still, she refused to explain why Richardson’s blog was closed or why his entire archive was deleted from the website.

Seems like either Richardson or Allhands is lying!

And in any case, scrubbing the archive with no notice or explanation is a no-no.