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
Promises made, promises kept: Scottsdale Mayor Lisa Borowsky details wins for Scottsdale
By Mayor Lisa Borowsky Politicians talk. My focus as Mayor these past five months has been to deliver for Scottsdale. When I was running for Mayor last year, I made a simple, six-point pledge to Scottsdale voters. This is where we stand in accomplishing those goals: Demand High-Quality Development, and Reject Density Scottsdale is special, but protecting what makes us … 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
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
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
How Do You Stand Up to a Bully? Scottsdale City Council is Showing Us
Anyone who has ever lived through their teenage years and had any sort of wise guidance from an elder knows the answer to the above question. When you are being pushed around and you want it to stop, do you say “Thank you sir, may I have another”? No, of course not, you stand up to them and take a … Read More
Scottsdale Gets Some Certainty with New Permanent Hires
By Alexander Lomax Having “interim” or “working” before the job title of many of your employees is never a great sign, at least in the long run. It implies too much change and not enough certainty and experience. This was precisely where the city of Scottsdale had found itself recently, typifying a few month period of relative tumult. The city … Read More
The Fight Against Axon Overreach Makes It to the Capitol
It’s been a long and winding road for Axon in its attempts to force its 1,900 apartment megacomplex (the biggest in state history) onto Scottsdale against its will. Once the people banded together, said “enough is enough”, and got enough signatures to put it to a public vote, Axon knew that it would lose (read our full coverage here). So … Read More
Quote of the Day: Adam Kwasman
In reference to the letter below from attorney Dennis Wilenchik, Scottsdale City Councilman Adam Kwasman said, “I have been in civil litigation for nearly a decade. This demand letter reads like Homer Simpson’s father yelling at squirrels to get off his lawn.”