Barking Dogs

There are few things more irritating than a barking dog. It ranks right up there with an incessant car alarm, and the sound of someone chewing with an open mouth (especially ice). A neighbor mentioned the term “misophonia” in the context of a barking dog problem, which prompted me to go back and look for […]

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Bar District: Bad Decisions

An AZCentral article last Thursday describes a case pending before the Arizona State Supreme Court in which hundreds of driving-under-the-influence cases could be thrown out because of faulty blood analysis equipment. This challenge started with a hearing a couple of years ago before the Maricopa County Superior Court. According to the Republic, The 2013 hearing […]

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Drunk in Scottsdale

Troy Hayden from Fox 10 News aired this story last night on Scottsdale’s bar district [link to video], across the street from our historic Villa Monterey neighborhood. Thank you Mayor Jim Lane, Councilman Dennis Robbins, Councilwoman Linda Milhaven, et. al., for promoting the highest concentration of liquor licenses in the entire state, right in historic […]

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