By my rough math, we had about 22% turnout for Scottsdale’s bond/tax election yesterday, November 3, 2015. Sad, especially considering that a little more than 10% of Scottsdale’s registered voters (16,000) were able to raise property taxes for all 146,000 voters. Or said another way, just by staying home, 114,000 voters agreed to have their […]
More Cultural Pandering
I received an anonymous letter today that reads: What’s up at the Scottsdale Cultural Council? Noises from the community are echoing similar concerns heard before the last CEO left. New CEO plans include dissolving the division advisory boards, demoting division VPs, and remodeling current offices to include his own plush quarters with windows overlooking the […]
Korte on LGBT
This column by Virginia Korte was published anonymously under the “Voice of Scottsdale” moniker on April 9, 2015. I referred to it in my article, “Doubling Down on LGBT” the next day, and was recently asked by a reader to share the original column. Scottsdale Challenging Mesa For Coveted Political Crown One of the things […]