By Recker McDowell — Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane has issued an emergency proclamation requiring masks or other face coverings be worn in public places, restaurants, bars, fitness centers and stores to help curtail the rise in COVID-19 cases. Businesses that serve the public will also have to require employees to wear masks. There are exemptions for children under 6 years … Read More
Important Scottsdale Lessons Learned
Politics and development can both be important aspects of life. And, like most everything else, it helps when you live and learn. That certainly appears to be the case for a recent redevelopment proposal, tentatively labeled The Scottsdale Collective, for an area of largely non-descript buildings east of Scottsdale Road and south of Camelback. It’s mostly known today for numerous … Read More
Guest Editorial: Scottsdale Needs to Make Small Businesses Top Priority with COVID Stimulus Money
By Recker McDowell — Scottsdale needs to step on the gas and help small businesses as it looks at how to spend its $29.6 million allocation from the CARES Act. A presentation to the Scottsdale City Council shows $6 million slated to be allocated for business assistance. That amounts to 20 percent of Scottsdale’s planned distribution of its COVID-19 stimulus … Read More
Guest Editorial: The Economics of Masks and COVID
By Recker McDowell — The debate over masks and the rise in COVID-19 cases in Arizona has become very political. It shouldn’t be. The motivation for wearing a mask (if it is not about protecting the health of seniors and your neighbors) should be about the economy and jobs. We get that the lectures and pushes for mask mandates from … Read More
See The Top States Sending Buyers To Arizona As Cullum Homes Opens On-Site Sales Office
(NORTH SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) Scottsdale based and National Custom Home Builder of the Year, Cullum Homes is pleased to announce that the building process has begun on several move-in-ready homes and the new model home that will showcase the Cullum’s greatest collection of golf estates located in The Village at Seven Desert Mountain. To accommodate interested buyers, a new on-site sales … Read More
Signs in Scottsdale: The Best & Worst Campaign Ones So Far
Best Phoenix Suns Look: Becca Linnig Best Photo: Scottsdale Marlboro Man John Little Best Glam Shot: Lisa Borowsky Best Dropping Of First Name To Help People Think It Is My More Popular Wife Running For Mayor: Bob Littlefield Worst Design That Looks Like It Was A Cocopah Middle School Student Council Sign: Michael Auerbach Best Sign By Worst Mayoral Candidate: … Read More
Iconic Arizona Estate Goes Up for Auction
(SEDONA, Ariz.) Located just outside of Sedona, in the town of Jerome, 300 Upper Bell Road—known as The Little Daisy—will auction online this month via Concierge Auctions in cooperation with Luxury Agent Donna Chesler of Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty. Previously offered for $5.9 million, the property will sell with No Reserve to the highest bidder. Bidding will be held June 26-30 via Concierge Auctions’ online marketplace, ConciergeAuctions.com, allowing … Read More
Guest Editorial: Real Change on Racism and Police
By Recker McDowell — The town of Gilbert and Gilbert Police are holding a series of ‘listening sessions’ with residents and business owners about race and policing. The Chandler Chamber of Commerce will join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as part of a national effort on the ‘inequality of opportunity’ and how to fix that. These are good moves and … Read More
Guest Editorial: Lose the COVID Politics, Judgment and Resistance Over Wearing Masks
By Recker McDowell — COVID-19 cases are up in Arizona with 3,000 new cases the past two days bringing the statewide total to almost 33,000. The concerning rise in cases in metro Phoenix, Yuma, Nogales and continued COVID cases on the Navajo Nation have restarted the debate over wearing masks and social distancing. The problem is there should not even … Read More
Henninger: The SCOTT Perspective on Scottsdale Mayor and Council Races
By Don Henninger — We now are in the thick of the race for Scottsdale mayor and City Council seats. Ballots for the Aug. 4 primary will be in our mailboxes within a month. SCOTT co-hosted forums recently for the five mayoral candidates and nine vying for three council seats. They were recorded and I encourage you to take a … Read More