Actually, Mr. Nuaimi, people do read The Sun

Fontana Mayor Mark Nuaimi, who also chairs the Local Agency Formation Commission, made the following remark while presiding over a Tuesday commission meeting:

"Nobody reads The Sun. I don't read The Sun. I'm sorry for The Sun, but it's a fact."

Tuesday's public hearings dealt with San Bernardino's applications to annex the Arrowhead Springs area and six county islands. The commission approved all of the annexations, but some residents living in unincorporated areas objected to the decision.

Some who spoke up said it was their opinion that local officials did not provide enough outreach on the project. Nuami posited The Sun has zero readership after noting that the only legal requirement to notify the public was to print legal notices in the local newspaper.

This reporter has to acknowledge some bias in this matter, but it may interest Nuaimi that our latest circulation figures from September show that we had 47,015 readers that month.

It's no secret that circulation figures for U.S. newspapers have generally been on the decline this decade, but 47,015 people are a lot more than zero.

Besides, it's not like the past year or so has been easy for local government either.