Author: George Fallar
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Coyotes Status Now
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The Glendale City Council held their executive session meeting yesterday afternoon to discuss how they would deal with their city owned arena. Despite factions of the public being worked up into believing yesterday’s session would result in an immediate decision or a dissemination of information, that was never to intended be the case. By law. Executive Session…
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Coyotes Facts Are Easy To Find
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My dad’s been gone for years now, and I spent more father’s days at the races in Loudon than I did at home, but happy Father’s Day, Dad. I should have appreciated the job you did raising three kids more, because it isn’t easy. Happy Father’s Day to our kids that gave me the opportunity to take a shot…
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Glendale Bids and Budgets
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Observers interested in the Coyotes saga in Glendale are aware the city hired Beacon Sports Capital to deliver vetted arena management proposals to the city for consideration. Most of those same observers are now aware Beacon has come up with four candidates for managing the Glendale owned arena. There is some confusion as to what the…
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Renaissance and Glendale Discussing Arena
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One of the principals of Renaissance Sports and Entertainment, Anthony LeBlanc, is scheduled to be in Glendale today to meet with Glendale interim (is everybody “interim” or “acting” over there?) City Manager Dick Bowers and (I believe) Executive Communication Director Julie Frisoni. Hey You Can’t Look The main topic of conversation will surely be the…
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Glendale City Hall Salaries
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There’s plenty of ways to adjust the Glendale budget without cutting corners. We could each buy ourselves a hockey team if we got a nickel for every time we heard something about cutting budget corners in Glendale to “pay for hockey” from people content with ignoring the real world cost of a municipal sport venue. So is there any overspending…
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Capitalist Fools
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June 2, 2013 The Glendale City Council should have the information they need to begin discussing a plan to deal with the arena they own. The agenda for the upcoming Tuesday, June 4 meeting has the regular executive session agenda placeholder for arena discussions. So, if you were hoping for discourse that wasn’t private and behind…
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Coyotes Rumor Roundup – June, 2013
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June 30, 2013 In the interest of civic duty, I’ve added a link to the Arizona Secretary of State’s form for submitting an open meeting law violation complaint. Click here for the form. Why would you want that? Maybe you are unhappy that Ken Jones apparently received confidential information that had only been discussed in…
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Journalism, Schmournalism
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You should be embarrassed, Mark Curtis, and you should apologize to the viewers you misled with your words yesterday evening. I’ll admit I missed it, having moved on from KPNX some time ago. While the video posted online doesn’t indicate anything, perhaps you actually identified your piece as an editorial rather than a news piece.…