Category: Bonds

Bonds, Buses and Trolleys, City Council, Economic Sustainability, Light Rail, Taxes

Light Rail Caught with Pants Down

January 25, 2015 1 Comment

Linda Valdez recently posted a pretty humorous column on the annual No Pants Day (No Pants Day is too cheeky) on the Valley Metro Light Rail system. I don’t get the point. Are the organizers trying to highlight the folly of light rail? Or are they trying to attract more fellow riders. I mean attract in […]

Bonds, City Council, Economic Sustainability, Elections, Ethics, Golf, Jim Lane, Linda Milhaven, Suzanne Klapp, Taxes

Scottsdale Bond Ratings Stumble

January 21, 2015 No Comments

Moody’s Investors Service issued a press release dated 14 November 2014 (between post-election press obsession and Thanksgiving, which may explain why the Republic and KJZZ missed it) announcing that it has assigned a AA1 rating–one notch below AAA–to bonds Scottsdale’s leaders are issuing to pay for improvements at the taxpayer-owned golf facilities known as the Tournament Player’s Club […]

Bonds, City Council, COGS, Cultural Council, David Smith, Dennis Robbins, Economic Sustainability, Elections, Ethics, General Plan Update, Jim Lane, Linda Milhaven, Politics, Public Safety, Taxes

The David Smith Problem

October 22, 2014 No Comments

First let me say that personally I find Scottsdale city council candidate David Smith to be pleasant and even likable. Second, politically he is probably not much worse than the three Chamber of Commerce candidates: Banker Linda Milhaven; Good ole boy Dennis Robbins; and opportunist Jennifer Petersen. But that’s not saying much. And it should go […]