Lag Time

May 12, 2012

A Scottsdale resident who is helping me with nominating petition signatures sent me an email this morning telling me that he’d gotten no response to a message he sent out to folks on his contact list. He said, Not a one has responded so far. I guess all are ambivalent and happy here. I guess [...]

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City Council Recap

May 10, 2012

Tuesday night’s City Council meeting was a mess. As usual. There were many items that were of concern. However, with so many packed onto one agenda, I only really had time to deal with three of them. Since my commentary gets a little political, I’ve posted that at ScottsdaleCitizen instead of here. I think you’ll [...]

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Minority Voice?

May 2, 2012

This “Your Views” letter to the editor appeared in the Scottsdale Republic Friday 30 March: Minority voice nixed Plan Bullfrogs sit on lily pads, making loud bellowing sounds, trying to attract something, usually a mate. Some political bloggers, pundits and Scottsdale Council members imitate a bullfrog in many ways. Saying the General Plan update (defeated [...]

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Grass Roots Campaigns, and the Cultural Council

April 30, 2012

Two articles appeared on AZCentral this morning, one on the mayoral campaign and the other on the impending split of Scottsdale Public Art from the Scottsdale Cultural Council: ScottsdaleCitizen.com/news/

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Nuts, Bolts, and Beans

April 28, 2012

Many years ago I met an automotive journalist and racing driver named Denise McCluggage. In the course of an all-too-brief conversation Denise made a comment to the effect that you can tell a lot about a town by its hardware store. As a guy who’d rather hang out in a hardware store than just about [...]

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Preview of Coming Attractions

April 28, 2012

Beth Duckett filed an article on AZCentral yesterday about some high-profile development projects coming to a neighborhood near you. I’ve covered them all in previous ScottsdaleTrails articles, but Beth’s writing provides a nice summary. Also keep in mind that there are a LOT more of these in the pipeline. Scottsdale development projects   by Beth [...]

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Life’s a Beach…Club 3

April 28, 2012

I’m posting this as a follow-up to my article last week on the “Beach Club” project in the Entertainment District. Tuesday night I asked the City Council to reconsider their approval of the zoning change for this project. I did so because in their deliberations Mayor Lane and Councilwoman Klapp specifically cited revenue data from [...]

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Hiking in Sedona

April 27, 2012

Most of the trail info I post on ScottsdaleTrails relates to local hikes. However, this article (series of posts) appeared on AZCentral recently and I thought I’d share. I used to fly up to Sedona regularly for breakfast or lunch at the airport cafe. Landing at that airport is a bit like landing on an [...]

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The Older I Get…

April 23, 2012

I was talking to Scottsdale City Council candidate Guy Phillips yesterday about the aches and pains of being over 50. He said that when he turned 50 he was  bummed that he was no longer “middle aged.” Then I was bummed, too. Which reminded me of a saying often repeated by my old friend Bill [...]

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The Great Scottsdale Exodus

April 23, 2012

I was buying a new pair of running shoes this weekend (no, I don’t run anymore due to “middle aged” knees, but still like the comfort of the shoes) from a guy named Steve. I asked him where he lived and he said “Central Phoenix.” When I commented (only half in jest) that it was [...]

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