The Merriam-Webster dictionary says the term “blue sky” means: 1: having little or no value <blue–sky stock>, or, 2: not grounded in the realities of the present : visionary <blue–sky thinking> I think there are a lot of things in Scottsdale lately that could fit either definition, though the term “visionary” is a bit of […]
Scottsdale Civics Test
In a recent column in what is left of the Arizona Republic (Legislature OKs civics test, public education is saved) Laurie Roberts says, …Republican state officials who detest federal mandates in our schools are now not only embracing a test written by the feds but making it a graduation requirement. In the opening act of the […]
Arizona: The Most Corrupt State in America
Matthew Hendley covered this topic in his recent Phoenix New Times article, “Arizona’s the Most Corrupt State in America, According to Survey.” The survey of reporters was conducted by researchers Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston working under the mantle of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. What Hendley fails to mention is that […]