Press Release: Mayor Lisa Borowsky commends volunteers for outreach to Old Town Scottsdale merchants

Community volunteers help deliver mayor’s personal message of gratitude and partnership Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky today expressed heartfelt appreciation to the dedicated volunteers who helped prepare and distribute a personal letter to merchants and proprietors in Old Town Scottsdale. The letter, signed by Mayor Borowsky, recognizes the vital role local businesses play in shaping the city’s historic core and invites … Read More

Wild Horses in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve? It May Come to Reality Soon

By Alexander Lomax To any close observers of Scottsdale politics, it’s no secret that Mayor Lisa Borowsky loves horses. In a fun little campaign quirk, she even put her horse on campaign signs. So a recent development is right up her alley, and she may have a perfect solution for a problem. In the midst of escalating tensions over the … Read More

Scottsdale Budget Concerns: Political Theater or Fiscal Reality?

By Ronald Sampson It has been quite the turbulent first half of the first year for Scottsdale’s new mayor and newest iteration of city council, and somehow the hits keep coming for this crew, with the latest point of contention being fiscal. Scottsdale’s 2025-26 budget has sparked significant controversy despite its superficial appearance of fiscal responsibility. While city officials tout … Read More

Lisa Borowsky Keeps Being Snubbed by Republicans. What’s Up with That?

By Ronald Sampson We are officially past the halfway point of the first year of Lisa Borowsky’s time as the Mayor of Scottsdale, which is enough time to reflect on how things have been going. The verdict? It’s been tough…very tough. But the obstacles haven’t come from where one would think. The obstacles are internal ones. The latest obstacle came … Read More

Guest Editorial: What Scottsdale should say to Axon

Dear Friends: Over the weekend the Scottsdale Progress printed my opinion piece about Axon. If you didn’t get to see it in the paper, I have reprinted it for you below: Scottsdale is a spectacular city. It was so long before Axon.  It will be long after Axon is gone. We can both applaud a local company’s success over the past many … Read More

Projection, Thy Name is Isner

By Alexander Lomax The fight against Axon’s apartment megacomplex goes on, as much as most of us wish it would be relegated to the dust bin of history’s bad ideas (get up to date here). And even while the city bravely decided to defend the will of the people and explore legal options, it was still willing to come to … Read More

A Kumbaya Moment on Council? Councilmembers Backtrack on Fight Against Mayor

It has been a rough few months for new Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky. What should have been smooth sailing with a conservative majority in city council has been anything but, culminating in their attempt to take away staffers from her office (get up to speed here). Things were looking dire, but it seems as though there may be reason for … Read More