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Scottsdale Buys A Newspaper

October 30, 2015 5 Comments

Terrance Thornton reports in the Scottsdale Independent (Scottsdale City Council looks to bolster creation of ‘event-based economy’) that the circularity of the relationship between the city and the Arizona Republic is taking yet another lap around the track. The newspaper of record –in the person of former Scottsdale Republic editor (now PR hack) Mike Ryan– […]

Ethics, Jim Lane, Politics, Virginia Korte

Susan Bitter Smith, Corporate Regulator, Part 4

September 22, 2015 6 Comments

I’m about to run out of fingers trying to keep track of how many chapters we’ve had to this story. Ryan Randazzo again posts a great article about a new conflict of interest complaint against AZ Corporation Commission chair (and former Scottsdale City Council member) Susan Bitter Smith (and don’t miss Laurie Roberts’s column). This […]

Bar District, Ethics, Jim Lane, Media, Politics, Real Estate, Zoning & Development

Susan Bitter Smith, Corporate Regulator, Part 3

September 20, 2015 4 Comments

I got a kick out of Ryan Randazzo’s very in-depth AZ Republic article about Susan Bitter Smith yesterday. There’s so much detail that to hit the highlights would be to regurgitate the entire article. So, I’ll leave it to you to read it on AZCentral. However, I do want to point to one line that […]