Because of her penchant for bragging about Scottsdale’s AAA (“Triple-A”) bond rating, many of us took to calling Mary Manross “Jane Bond” in her last years of office. It seemed like that was her answer to every criticism leveled at her. Even Jim Lane (the mayoral candidate) criticized her for this overly simplistic and short-sighted […]
Going Once, Going Twice…
Mayor Jim Lane filed his January campaign finance report [very large file, I’m working on compressing it] yesterday. His PR flack Jason Rose crowed loudly a couple of months ago about how much money he was raising, so it really isn’t a surprise…or it shouldn’t have been. However, now that I’ve actually seen it I […]
City Council Recap
Last night’s City Council meeting turned out to be a lot more interesting than the agenda seemed to indicate. You can view the video of my overall comments about the General Plan Update, the March election, etc., starting at about 00:52:00 into the recording. The Council was getting “ethics training” before that…ahem, please don’t fall […]