Author: George Fallar
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Hirsch Monologue Ignores Facts
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Glendale mayor Weiers opened the citizen comment portion (3:55 on video) of the June 23 Glendale (AZ) City Council meeting explaining the comment rules, including: Personal attacks against councilmembers, city staff, are just simply are not allowed. He continues: We will have a time limit tonight so it’s three minutes per person, we have a timer up…
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Sometimes You Just Have To Answer Back!
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On June 23rd, 2015 at the Glendale City Council meeting Justin Harris, President Glendale Law Enforcement Association (GLEA) and Co-chair of Glendale Police Officers Association, stood up in the public comments section of the meeting to make comments about the Recall Committees for CMs Turner and Tolmachoff. (Click here for video) (Please note Harris is allowed…
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Recall Petitions Will Be Circulated in Glendale
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There are now two committees in place to recall Glendale (AZ) Councilmember Bart Turner and Councilmember Lauren Tolmachoff. Both members were elected in the November 4, 2014 election. The committees were formed by four Glendale citizens. Reasons for Recall The 200 word summary, a required component when forming a recal committee, is intended to summarize the reasoning behind…
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Glendale City Council Recall Effort
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Four sets of recall packets were retrieved from the Glendale City Clerk yesterday (June 15, 2015) afternoon by Glendale resident Larry Feiner. Mr. Feiner stood up at the June 10 City Council meeting and expressed his displeasure with the direction of Council. Go to the video (click here) and Mr. Feiner appears at 1:03:09. This preliminary…
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Glendale Open Meeting Law Violation
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There’s been a run of fingers pointed in many directions at Glendale City Hall. It was always like that, probably every city of similar size has similar personal clashes. One of the favorite weapons is registering open meeting law violation complaints. Why? They’re free, and the rules are actually a little vague. It’s hard to do…
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Temporary Truce for Glendale Boycott
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Sometimes cooler heads should prevail and take a step back from an obvious action. The obvious, and completely legitimate, reaction to the ill-advised June 9 actions of the Glendale City Council is to boycott every merchant in Glendale to hit the sales tax revenue of the city. Maybe it’s premature. Grounds For Divorce On June 9, the Glendale…
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Here We Go Again
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ANOTHER CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN GLENDALE?!? Seriously, just when you thought the only problems you had to worry about as a Coyotes fan related to subpar on-ice performance and who will be the draft pick. Nope, Glendale is considering voiding their contract with IceArizona, they’ll be voting to push it forward tonight (June 10) at a…
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Grumpy Byfuglien Is Over The Line
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The former Atlanta Thrashers are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They earned the spot with their play, performing well enough to make the current Stanley Cup Champion Kings to eat their dust. Partial credit for the team reaching the playoffs certainly has to go to Dustin Byfuglien skating as a defenseman. Byfuglien plays a heavy game, players…