Category: Bonds

Bonds, City Council, Cultural Council, David Smith, Economic Sustainability, Education, Elections, Ethics, Politics, Public Safety, Schools, State Legislature, Taxes, Zoning & Development

Scottsdale Election 2014 Recommendations

October 20, 2014 27 Comments

Most of you who are on the Permanent Early Voting List have received your early ballots by now. If you have not yet marked them, or if you prefer to vote on Election Day, here are my recommendations. Regular readers of ScottsdaleTrails know my well-researched positions on the local candidates, but I’ve added some ‘Cliff’s […]

Bonds, City Council, Elections, Ethics, State Legislature, Taxes

Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors Revisited

September 8, 2014 No Comments

This open letter was sent to me by a local Realtor. I continue to fight against the endorsement of candidates, higher property taxes for unnecessary city bonds, and political involvement in city government by the Scottsdale Area Association of Realtors. It’s a good fight because it doesn’t look like it’s going away soon. It’s quite […]

Bonds, City Council, COGS, David Smith, Economic Sustainability, Elections, Ethics, Light Rail, Politics, Ron McCullagh, Zoning & Development

True Colors

August 16, 2014 No Comments

I caught a lot of grief for my city council endorsements a couple of weeks ago, particularly from candidate Bill Crawford. He was also pretty hard on Councilman Guy Phillips, whose endorsements mirrored my own. In fact, the atmosphere from the ‘activist community’ (whatever that is anymore) was so vitriolic and from so many ‘allies’ like […]