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 […]
Susan Bitter Smith, Corporate Regulator, Part 3
I got a kick out of Ryan Randazzo’s very in-depth AZ Republic article about Susan Bitter Smith yesterday. There’s so much detail that to hit the highlights would be to regurgitate the entire article. So, I’ll leave it to you to read it on AZCentral. However, I do want to point to one line that […]
Peter Pan City Planning and Fairy Dust Incentives
In an Arizona Republic opinion column a couple of days ago, Robert Robb brilliantly analyzes the current land-use planning philosophy that has pushed aside all common sense throughout the metro area: Phoenix banks on Peter Pan theory of Millennials. Among Robb’s observations: I believe urban form and government infrastructure should maximize the living preferences of […]