There’s a joke that goes, “The mayor, the city treasurer, and the Cultural Council all go into a bar…” I haven’t figured out the punch line yet, but it will certainly be a laugh at the expense of the taxpayers. You see, every time the Scottsdale Cultural Council gets into trouble, they circle the wagons […]
The Price of “Progress”
Robert Leger recently ran an AZ Republic column in which he took issue with a decade-old book by Albert Lieber called “The Road to Scottsdale.” In the book, Lieber, mourns for the Scottsdale of his memory, some 40 years distant from then and 50 years from today. Leger dismisses this as “…wax[ing] nostalgic for a […]
Council Compass: Ron McCullagh
The “Council Compass” series of posts was designed to introduce Council Members and related issues to our readers. The bulk of these posts is author opinion. Feedback and interaction is encouraged, via the ‘comments’ section below. Ron McCullagh A brief excerpt from Ron McCullagh’s profile page: Councilman Ron McCullagh began his first term on the […]