Author: George Fallar
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Watch Your Six – Part V
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November 17, 2012 Welcome back, boys and girls! Let’s jump right into our latest installment of predictions regarding the attempted defeat of the arena lease deal between Hockey Partners and the City of Glendale. My prediction of a steady stream of articles worthy of being joyfully quoted, tweeted and facebooked all over Canada was easy…
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Watch Your Six, Part IV
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November 11, 2012 You still here? Good, let’s continue with our examination of what pressure might be applied to kill the newly renegotiated arena lease deal between the City of Glendale and Hockey Partners. I’ve decided to start using the more correct Hockey Partners moniker for the Jamison group so we’ll all get used to…
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Watch Your Six, Part III
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November 10, 2012 We briefly discussed the reappearance of Ken Jones and his repeatedly stated intent of derailing the Coyotes deal. He and his then partner, Joe Cobb, tried once before waaaaay back in June of 2012. This blog is full of descriptions of their antics and those of their compatriots, the Goldwater Institute (GWI) who “represented”…
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Watch Your Six, Part II
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November 9, 2012 Gather your beanbag chairs around the screen, boys and girls, and let’s try some predictions for the next couple weeks regarding our favorite hockey team, the Arizona Coyotes. There was a blog post this morning on a local business web site that was predictable. As faithful readers will remember, we predicted somebody…
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Watch Your Six, Coyotes
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November 14, 2012 By now we all know that Joyce Clark has lost her city council seat to a guy that can neither pronounce library nor do the simple math on a campaign report. I mean, really, it’s just addition and subtraction. That’s a bad thing for the City of Glendale. What’s better than “Neil…
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Patriot? Not So Much
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Merriam-Webster and other definitions of “patriot” (n): One who loves his or her country and supports its authority and interests One who loves, supports, and defends one’s country A person who vigorously supports his country and its way of life You get the idea. There are people, let’s get specific and say it’s the “Tea Party…
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Coyotes Necessary for Westgate Success
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iStar financial has announce that they will be sticking around and retaining Westgate in Glendale. They will be working on rebranding it as the “Westgate Entertainment District”. This is great news, but some facets of their arguments don’t add up, or at least as their arguments were presented by one of the local anti-Coyotes web…
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Can’t Buy Me Love
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I like music, especially live music. Bea and I attend as many live shows as we can, we see people everybody has heard of and people hardly anybody has heard of. We saw the Rolling Stones three times the last time they were touring, even managed to make a weekend in Vegas with The Who one night and the…