This is How You Do It: Kudos to Scottsdale’s Leadership

By Alexander Lomax When the Scottsdale City Council and Mayor met last Thursday, in most ways it was a normal, even boring meeting. There were a few nominees for boards that needed to be voted on, there were some budgeting and zoning items that were agreed to by consent. But in some ways it was very different. That meeting will … Read More

Tearing Apart the Data of the Scottsdale Elections: City Council

In our series where we break down the election results from Scottsdale, we have already looked at the mayoral race as well as the ballot propositions. For our third of three pieces, we will take a look at the Scottsdale City Council races, typified by major upheaval as both incumbents on the November ballot were ousted (after newcomer Jan Dubauskas … Read More

Thank You Councilman Durham! I’m Honored to be Cannon Fodder for You!

By Alexander Lomax For Scottsdale political wonks, it’s been a fun year regardless, but few developments have been as fun as Councilman Tom Durham essentially peacing-out of his re-election campaign and turning all of his efforts towards defeating Adam Kwasman in his race to defeat him. Rarely has an active candidate told everyone publicly, “Don’t vote for me, vote for … Read More

BREAKING NEWS: They’re Back… 

A movie phrase made famous by Poltergeist apparently is the long rumored reality as Axon is purportedly readying to return its immensely unpopular apartment plan to Scottsdale decision-making dais. And in the “you can’t make this up” category, they are apparently targeting Planning Commission and City Council hearings immediately after the election on November 13th and November 19th.  Too cute by half, but more … Read More

Guest Editorial: Response from Adam Kwasman

By Adam Kwasman I am Adam Kwasman, and I am running for City Council to bring reason and thoughtful, solutionbased leadership to Scottsdale. Over the last few weeks, we have seen nothing but baseless attacks and desperation from other, and now former candidates, in the race for Scottsdale City Council. I entered this race because I, like so many others, … Read More

Guest Editorial: Scottsdale Loses if Kwasman Wins

By Councilmember Tom Durham Does Adam Kwasman plan to slash your services from the City of Scottsdale by over 50%? Well, he says he does.  He told AZCentral, “I know there are hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending” in the General Fund. The General Fund is the primary operating fund of the City.  It is used to pay for … Read More

Repost: Finally, an Arizona politician does the right thing. He quits.

By EJ Montini (original article can be found here) Scottsdale City Council member Tom Durham did something Thursday night that anyone who follow politics on any level would find to be shocking, even bizarre. It’s called … the right thing. I know. I had a hard time believing it myself when I read the article by The Arizona Republic’s Sam Kmack. Durham … Read More

Guest Editorial: Why Won’t Adam Kwasman Face Voters?

By Councilmember Tom Durham Adam Kwasman bailed on the Candidate Forum sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce last Monday night. Now he says he’s not coming to next Thursday’s debate, sponsored by the Arizona Digital Free Press, despite earlier saying that he would. That’s unfortunate because he owes you answers on many of the positions he has taken. Why has … Read More

Guest Editorial: Kwasman’s Reckless Agenda: What’s at Stake

By Councilmember Tom Durham Adam Kwasman has promised, if elected, to fire all of Scottsdale’s charter officers. Can you imagine the chaos that would result? Our charter officers have years of accumulated knowledge of how Scottsdale works—its operations, its budget, its services, its parks. Scottsdale regularly gets awards for the high quality of its services. But all of that would … Read More