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Phil Boas
Editorial Columnist
Phil Boas is an editorial columnist. Formerly he was editor of The Arizona Republic editorial pages from 2012-22. He joined The Republic in 1999 after he was metro editor at The Tribune newspapers in Mesa and a reporter at the Los Angeles Daily News. A graduate of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he and his wife, Sherry, are the parents of four children and live in Gilbert.