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KJZZ Hides Information from IRS, Donors

December 16, 2014 2 Comments

In a follow-up attack piece yesterday on the Police Officers of Scottsdale Association (POSA) and the POSA Outreach programs, KJZZ’s Kristena Hansen (ASU Cronkite School grad and former AZ Republic reporter) posted under the salacious headline, “Scottsdale Police Union Defends Big Payouts to Telemarketer“: Instead, the question is really about ethics, said Sandra Miniutti, a […]

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More Bar District Mayhem

November 16, 2014 9 Comments

ScottsdaleArizonaNews.com relayed this from the Scottsdale Fire Department public information office about an injury incident last night/this morning: Scottsdale Fire paramedics treated and then transported to a trauma facility 2 females that were struck by at least one vehicle while crossing Camelback road around midnight last night. No other injuries to report and a great reminder […]

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Super Stupidity: Super Bowl Economics

January 16, 2014 2 Comments

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 […]