Scottsdale Women With Options

Will they or won’t they? That’s the question in Scottsdale political circles as former Scottsdale City Councilwoman Tammy Caputi and former Arizona State Lawmaker Michelle Ugenti-Rita are causing stir with what they may do next. Despite raising prodigious sums for her 2024 city council re-election run, Caputi surprisingly came up short.  Yet, due to the recent tumult in the city, … Read More

Watch Out Scottsdale: You’re in the Crosshairs for Scammers

With a population that leans both old and wealthy, Scottsdale has become well known as a place for fraudsters to both live and pillage, so much so that we’ve written numerous pieces about it, which you can read here. And with technology comes new and innovative ways to steal from people. One of the newer and hottest ways to separate … Read More

DiCiccio an Unneeded Bomb Thrower in an Already Shaky Council

By Alexander Lomax It will be no surprise to anyone who pays attention to Scottsdale politics when I say that 2025 has been a very…spicy year at City Hall. Instead of typical left-vs-right battles, the main battle has been between the conservative faction on City Council against Mayor Lisa Borowsky, herself generally also considered conservatives (or, to be more factual, … Read More

The Inconsistencies of Solange Whitehead: What Is She Doing?

By Ronald Sampson Sometimes it feels as though this iteration of the Scottsdale City Council is completely new, considering the pace and rate of change they have pushed through since January. But that’s not entirely true; Solange Whitehead has been on council since 2019, and while many may disagree with her relatively left-leaning proclivities, she has generally been a positive … Read More

ParkingGate Meets the Public, Silly Pseudo-Scandal Gets a Public Hearing

By Ronald Sampson When it comes to a city like Scottsdale, where there are precious few issues to complain about, the silliest and smallest things sometimes get elevated to crisis mode. We all need something to talk about, after all. And one of the silliest pseudo-scandals in recent memory is now getting new life and a public hearing. Behold, Scottsdale’s … Read More

Purpose Out of Detritus: New Scottsdale Plans Demonstrate the Best in Repurposing

Structures come and go, outliving their usefulness and eventually emptying out their occupants and activities that once made them alive and special. This is a part of life, and an unavoidable one at that. But it is what happens to those structures afterward that can turn a rotting corpse of concrete and drywall into something special yet again…a rebirth. That … Read More

Our Leaders are Fighting for Our City, and We Should Be Thankful

By Alexander Lomax Checks and balances are important in life. We need checks and balances in our government, checks and balances in our interpersonal relationships, and checks and balances within the corporate world. Complete overregulation is bad, but a world where corporations have no checks on their power isn’t any better either as the industrial revolution taught us (if you … Read More

Homeless Hotel No More: What Recent Closure Says About the City’s Future

Homelessness was a significant local issue in the last election, and even though there is far less of it than most other cities in America, some of the more conservative candidates used it very deftly to their advantage. A centerpiece of that was Scottsdale’s “homeless hotel”, where an old hotel was used to house a couple handfuls of homeless women … Read More