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 […]
Paper versus News
In doing my daily review of the local news this morning, I was confronted and confounded by several “overlay” pages on AZCentral.com that blocked the content I was trying to read. It appears impossible to get past them without answering some stupid survey question. A little investigation reveals these are generated by BounceExchange.com, which is […]
Quote of the Day: The Fourth Estate
The Lords Temporal say nothing, the Lords Spiritual have nothing to say, and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by Journalism. Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet, commenting on British parliament, the Anglican Church, and the press.