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 […]
More Millennial Muddling
Steve Goldstein (Twitter) hosted a conversation Tuesday on KJZZ’s Here and Now program with Ben Casselman about the “narrative”being advanced by “the media” (and developers) about the economic impact of the millennial generation, particularly their supposed preference for urban living. Casselman is the chief economics writer for Nate Silver’s Five ThirtyEight website (Twitter). You may […]
David Smith’s Real Tax Reform is No Substitute for Real Budget Discipline
David Smith’s Feb. 24 Scottsdale Independent column “Scottsdale City Council to debate real tax reform,” describes nothing more than a publicity stunt. First of all, eliminating the food tax wasn’t Smith’s idea. It was first proposed several years ago by the late, great city councilman Tony Nelssen. Smith can’t even be original, let alone intellectually […]