This article appeared on the GolfChannel.com website yesterday. TPC Scottsdale Stadium Course set for makeover in 2014 Matt Ginella, Jan 28, 2014 9:25 AM ET The Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale, built in 1987 by Tom Weiskopf and Jay Morrish, joins a long and distinguished list of courses in need of an update. If final […]
Super Stupidity: Super Bowl Economics
Thanks to a call from an astute ScottsdaleTrails reader, I was alerted to an article in yesterday’s USA Today which asks, “Is the Super Bowl really a boost to host cities?“ To put it mildly, the economic justification for host city contributions to the “non-profit” NFL are sketchy. And then in today’s Arizona Republic, Mary […]
Selective Fiscal Transparency
In an Arizona Republic editorial yesterday (reproduced below) under John Zidich’s name, the City of Phoenix is lauded for creating a portal to make it easier for citizens (and presumably journalists who are too lazy to ferret out existing sources) to access city spending information. I find this humorous on several levels. Even this editorial […]