Arizona Again Becoming a Center for New Businesses with New Development

There has been much ado about President Trump’s tariff announcement a few weeks back. Putting it charitably, it has been…rocky…but lost in all of the partisan bickering is the reality that there is now an incentive to onshore business operations. Whether or not it’s worth it is a subject for an economics blog, but the reality is that some multinational … Read More

Whoa is King Rick the Bully: Axon Willing to Throw Arizona Under the Bus to Get Its Way

Axon’s egregious attempt to short-change Arizona’s schools and bully the electorate in order to construct its unwanted apartment megacomplex for its own benefit has been well-documented (read our coverage here), and yet somehow it manages to get worse and worse. It recently announced its quarterly financials and stop us if you’ve heard this before, but the stock soared 15% to all-time … Read More

King Rick Strikes Again, This Time Attempting to Eviscerate Citizen Rights

By Ronald Sampson Axon has developed quite a reputation for bullying its way through Scottsdale. Its attempts to shoehorn in its unwanted apartment megacomplex (apparently the largest apartment complex in the history of the entire state) into the city met stiff resistance, so it ignored the will of the people and leaned on a lame duck City Council. Once the … Read More

Scottsdale-Based Business in Trouble with the Feds: Is it Warranted or Not?

  Most of you have likely heard of Zelle; they are a payment processing company on par with CashApp or Venmo, making payments between individuals or small businesses extremely easy and generally at no cost. It boasted over 140 million users as of this year. It’s a giant. You probably didn’t know that it’s powered by a Scottsdale company however, … Read More

ASM versus Optima: Where Economic Growth Battles Quality of Life

We all want economic growth, and Arizona (and Scottsdale, more specifically) has been on fire in that regard recently. This has been optimized by the massive recent announcement by semiconductor-adjacent giant ASM, which recently announced an absolutely mammoth expansion in Scottsdale (you can learn more about it here). But as with anything mammoth, there will be winners and there will … Read More

Massive Corporate News: Scottsdale Will Now Be Production Center for Tech Giant

Scottsdale has long been amenable to the needs of the business community, save for the spare corporation that attempts to threaten the city and hold it hostage (looking at you, Axon). A recent announcement demonstrates precisely this ethos and acts as a very positive harbinger of the economic future of our city. Tech giant ASM recently announced that it will … Read More

A Standout Scottsdale Teen is Making a Difference by Fighting Covid

We know that Scottsdale has an educational system which ranks favorably in our state and nation. So it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that one of its own students is using that education, as well as an innate desire to innovate, to help fight Covid. 17 year old Nic Brown saw an unmet need for purification products after Covid started … Read More

Scottsdale as a Biotech Hub? Local Firm is Challenging Assumptions

When you think of Scottsdale, what do you think of? A great retirement destination? Golf? Partying in Old Town? One thing you probably don’t think of is biotechnology. Yet one local firm is looking to change that, and making important progress. Scottsdale-based BioLab Sciences recently won the award for Best Bioscience Firm of the Year from the Arizona Bioindustry Association. … Read More