Politics – A necessary evil
Many, maybe even MOST, Americans say they have no interest in politics.
After all, it’s a dirty business and we’re all busy living our lives and taking care of business.
Yet, all Americans 18 and over should VOTE, and voting responsibly means getting a little dirty understanding politics and what politicians have in mind for your future and present life.
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Skeete’s Swan Song
March 7, 2013 The clock is ticking down, apparently, on Glendale’s Acting City Manager Horatio Skeete. Skeete was the subject of a special meeting a couple days ago. By some accounts, his days as a city employee are numbered. It appears to be at least partially based in retaliation for the similar fate of Craig…
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Glendale Fiddles
The City of Glendale is visibly stalled in their attempt to find a new arena manager that also will own the Phoenix Coyotes. While the shortened season is rapidly drawing to a close, the city government has handed over their responsibility to an outside company with no public debate nor any mention of the cost of doing…
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Fiddling While Glendale Burns
March 4, 2013 The expiration date (January 31) for the Hockey Partners arena management agreement with the City of Glendale was over a month ago. Despite vague assurances from new mayor Jerry Weiers that he has “four people” interested in pursuing the arena agreement and the Coyotes, there has been no public verification beyond a couple statements in…
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Who’s In Control Here?
Glendale mayor Jerry Weiers, speaking about the eventual disposition of the Glendale city owned Jobing.com arena at the February 5 City Council meeting: “The real question here is do we want to let the NHL to stay in Glendale, or do we want to entertain other options,” he asked. “We don’t need to speculate or try to guess…
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Goldwater Hopes Misguided
As we wind down 2012, the arena management agreement between the City of Glendale and Hockey Partners is approved, signed and delivered. That’s another giant step toward the Coyotes bright future in Glendale completed successfully. The R-12-02 referendum halfhearted and error laden attempt by Ken Jones and Francine Romesburg followed the similarly error filled R-12-01 attempt into failure, this time they didn’t even…
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Watch Your Six – Part Final
November 26, 2012 Here we sit on the eve of yet another momentous vote on the Coyotes sale and their future. It’s a busy day, so only a couple things to cover. Phil Lieberman’s Seat We figured there would be a push to seat the new council member for disappearing Phil’s Cactus district seat. Now…
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Cockroaches: Come To The Light!
There is a strange obsession with the Coyotes that a group of disturbed Canadians have, they express their obsession nearly constantly on Twitter, Facebook and Internet bulletin boards dedicated to their negative fascination with the Coyotes. Some are rational, many more are semi-rational and many are disturbed enough to personally attack people such as Glendale…
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Watch Your Six – Part V
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…