By Ronald Sampson Sometimes it feels as though this iteration of the Scottsdale City Council is completely new, considering the pace and rate of change they have pushed through since January. But that’s not entirely true; Solange Whitehead has been on council since 2019, and while many may disagree with her relatively left-leaning proclivities, she has generally been a positive … 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
Guest Editorial: You have to know what’s going on- Police involved
By Councilman Adam Kwasman Dear Neighbor, I need your help. Just this week, a radical, pro-Hamas group has targeted my family and me, spewing anti-Semitic hate, and posting a photo of my family on their social media, calling me a Nazi and telling their radical supporters to “make my life hell.” The outstanding Scottsdale Police Department are investigating the matter, and I have recently completed a security assessment of my home. This … 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
An AP&G Exclusive: Our Interview with Scottsdale City Councilwoman and Vice Mayor Jan Dubauskas
Councilwoman, thank you so much for your time. We know that our readership would love to learn more about you and appreciate that you’ve given us the opportunity to show them. For any newly elected official, there is always some disconnect between what they thought the position would be and what it actually is. What has been a pleasant surprise … Read More
When You Don’t Have the People on Your Side, You Need to Pay Up
It’s not a secret that Axon has been pulling every single lever possible in order to force its massive, unwanted apartment megacomplex onto the people of Scottsdale. However, a recent development shows just how much it has been willing to pay up in order to do so; how only one aspect of this push has cost the company half a … Read More
Guest Editorial: Representative Kolodin Needs to Worry Less About Making Headlines
By Alexander Lomax I’d consider myself a fairly reasonable liberal, but more than that, I’m a pretty average voter. I think that the political left has gone too far in a number of different ways. I want leaders who are going to fix problems, not spend their time inventing ones, and if that’s a Republican then they’re going to get … Read More
Guest Editorial: Tears for Tolerance
By Betty Janik On February 11, 2025, Scottsdale City Council was asked to vote on Ordinance 4662 which ensured COS employees are hired and promoted based on merit and to discontinue DEI programs. Once again, certain members of Council fabricated a problem that does not exist in the halls of Council and concocted a solution that was totally unwarranted, but … Read More