It is definitely not too early to start looking forward to the 2022 Scottsdale City Council elections to kick the tires a bit on potential candidates. We will have three seats up for election: those seats are currently held by Kathy Littlefield, Linda Milhaven, and Solange Whitehead. As a reminder, we do not currently have a district system, so all … Read More
Featured Editorial: Mayor Ortega is Setting Scottsdale Up for a Major Loss
By Larry Kush Yet another battle is taking shape between property rights advocates and our cities mayor over the mayor’s goal of gutting the Old Town Scottsdale Character Area Plan (OTSCAP) which was adopted in 2018. In case you have not heard of it, OTSCAP serves as the regulatory long-range plan that guides growth and development in downtown Scottsdale, and … Read More
What was this Teacher Thinking? Scottsdale Teacher get Fired for Teaching a Book on Shaming?
School administrators in Arizona typically have a rough go of it; pay isn’t always great, classrooms are large, numerous candidates and elected officials do their best to make your life tough…it’s not an easy ride. We tend to sympathize with them and want to see their decisions through a positive prism. That’s pretty tough for the case of Principal Linda … Read More
No Criminal Charges for Greenburg, but That Doesn’t Make It One Bit Better
Jann-Michael Greenburg will escape criminal charges it seems, as a recent investigation stated that he did not in fact break the law. Those were the findings of the Scottsdale Police Department, which have been passed up to the FBI and State AG. According to Police spokesman Sgt. Kevin Quon, investigators did not find anything in the Google Drive on Jann-Michael … Read More
Are There Any Adults in the Room?
By Alexander Lomax Never let a good crisis go to waste, the saying goes. And boy ohh boy, are SUSD and the Greenburgs ever in one heckuva crisis. And who’s swooping down to try to steal the spotlight from them and using misery as a campaign event? Gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and US Senate Jim Lamon. Lamon organized an event … Read More
The Country’s Best Discount Theater – Pollack Cinemas Re-Opens for Business Friday, December 10th at Noon
The Grand Reopening Comes After a Million Dollar Renovation and Year and Half Closure Due to Covid-19 Pandemic After more than a year and a half of being closed, Valley Real Estate Entrepreneur Michael Pollack is excited to announce the highly anticipated re-opening of Pollack Tempe Cinemas on Friday, December 10, 2021 starting at noon. Located at the corner of … Read More
SUSD Takes a Risk: Schools to be Mask-Optional
As availability of Covid-19 vaccines has increased for children, schools around the country are shifting policies. Scottsdale Unified is joining them, as long with the Kyrene School District is announcing that masks will be optional after winter break. The district says that they will still strongly recommend that students wear masks while on campus, but teachers will no longer be … Read More
Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty Presents Properties with the Most Decadent Dining Rooms for this Holiday Season
See why these dining rooms from Arizona’s leader in luxury real estate are so special Arizona’s leader in luxury real estate, Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, presents the most lavish properties with dining rooms perfect for this holiday season. Dining rooms can often be the centerpiece of a home, and these do not disappoint. The first estate on this luxury … Read More
An Innovative Solution for a New Problem
Covid has brought out the best and the worst of us. It has brought out the most ingenuous and the most intellectually lacking. But one downside that many retailers are dealing with is an ingenuous worst: using masking as a way to steal with less of a chance of repercussions. Cities such as San Francisco and Chicago have been dealing … Read More
Do Arizona Democrats Stand for Anything?
By Ronald Sampson I am loathe to draw too many conclusions from Twitter; it is generally a cesspool which is not reflective of real life in nearly any way, after all. But if volume of responses are indicative of anything, then local Dems have en masse tipped their hands as to their lack of moral and ethical rooting in the … Read More