Sam West, one of my occasional political allies, regularly sends famous historical quotes to his subscriber list. This morning he sent one that reminded me of a conversation I had with another friend recently. In it, my friend asked my opinion on why I feel our Scottsdale City Government is so dysfunctional. The quote Sam provided today would have […]
Noisy Neighbors: Take Two
In one of our first articles on ScottsdaleTrails I gave you a little background on the dust-up between the bars in downtown Scottsdale’s growing ‘entertainment district’ (centered south of 75th Street and Camelback) and long-time residents north and east of Camelback and Miller. Robert Leger, Scottsdale Republic opinion page editor and nemesis of the neighbors, […]
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 […]