Nothing beats sitting at a ballpark on a sunny day, watching your favorite team with a hot dog and ice cold beer in hand. This has become a symbolic scene in American culture and a tradition Peoria Sports Complex celebrates as it kicks off its 25th year. In 1994, Peoria Sports Complex became the first dual-team spring training facility in … Read More

While U.S. Rep Martha McSally has not formally announced her campaign for the Senate seat, being vacated by Jeff Flake, another strong indication of her pending candidacy came last Thursday when a fellow Republican announced she is launching a campaign for The Congressional District 2 House seat. Lea Marquez-Peterson’s long speculated campaign for Congress is a go. And that’s a … Read More

As emerging cases of sexual harassment and sexual assault dominate national and local news, the dialogue is shifting towards victims’ inability to discuss abuse, commonly citing confidentiality agreements as the problem. However, Arizona may hopefully be positioning to change this. State Representative Maria Syms, a Republican from Paradise Valley, is saying enough is enough. Last week Syms proposed legislation that … Read More

By the Goldwater Institute How the Bureaucrats Stole Christmas November 25, 2017 Every year, Lee Sepanek’s Christmas display brings joy to Phoenicians, who visit to enjoy the glistening decorations and sip the hot chocolate he serves them. But not this year. Thanks to Phoenix bureaucrats, Lee has been forced to cancel the show. The trouble started this summer, when the … Read More

Rumor has it two complaining City of Phoenix employees, possibly in the City Attorney’s Office, are to blame for ending one of Arizona’s most spectacular Christmas displays. (Here is a link a recent story on AZ Central. ) They purportedly moved into the Arcadia neighborhood that’s hosted the lights put up by  Lee Sepanek for some 30 years, and didn’t like … Read More

By Scottsdale City Councilman David Smith Today I am announcing my candidacy for a second term to represent you on the Scottsdale City Council.  I am proud of Scottsdale and passionate about participating in our city’s future. When voters elected me in 2014, many only knew me from the years I served as Scottsdale’s City Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer.  … Read More

In years past “ambulance chasers” was a derogatory description that could find its way to certain lawyers or law firms.  Here in the Phoenix area the term was often associated with the Goldberg & Osborns of the legal profession.  But we appear to have a new gold medalist:  The Frutkin Law Firm. In the great new age of social media … Read More

Once upon a time people named Pettycrew, Carla, Korte, Decabooter, Rau, Drinkwater, Manross, Campana and others sat around a Scottsdale table.  They had the audacity to not only dream of a McDowell Sonoran Preserve, but to make it happen. Today, it stands as the community’s greatest accomplishment. Paradise Valley is blessed to have similar landscapes.  They, like Scottsdale’s, define its … Read More

by Desert EDGE Advocates The Honorable Paul Messinger The Seven Wonders of this Great Community The accomplishments that separate Scottsdale from other Valley cities: 1. Modifying the Indian Bend Wash into a very successful flood control project and great open space and parks project 2. Scottsdale putting its electric utilities underground and requiring fire sprinkler systems in all buildings built … Read More

We don’t typically commend things Littlefield.  After all it’s been some 330 days sense Classless Bob Littlefield has failed to call and congratulate Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane on the latter’s landslide win last November.  Humility following political humiliation might have even been cathartic. But the sins of the husband should not flow to Bob’s wife Kathy, a Scottsdale City Councilmember. … Read More