Scottsdale’s police officers and staff are proud to announce the 5th annual Police Officers of Scottsdale “Blades for Badges” charity ice hockey meetup at the Ice Den on Bell Road in Scottsdale, Arizona. The POSA “Enforcers” team up to go head-to-head against our local rivals, the “Ice Men that Care,” of The Hacker Hockey Club. […]
Bonds: What You Actually Approved
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 […]
Which Kills More: Guns or Cars?
In a classic example of using statistics like the drunkard uses a lamppost (for support rather than illumination), EJ Montini (@EJMontini) published on AZCentral a recitation of statistics from a lobbying group pretending to be a think tank, in which he and they claim that more Arizonan’s are killed in firearms-related incidents than in motor […]