Development to north is unstoppable tide
OUR VIEW Talk to anyone who has lived in Scottsdale for a while, and you’ll hear about change. Sudden, profound change, the kind that can make the average retiree sound like Methuselah. When I was your...
View ArticleAu contraire: Scottsdale talked light rail, rejected it
MY TURN By MICHAEL FERNANDEZ Regarding the recent Q&A with Councilwoman-elect Virginia Korte, I must take issue with her assertion that Scottsdale has never had an opportunity for community...
View ArticleSuccess possible over a variety of educational paths
MY TURN By CHRIS SURPRENANT This past summer, tuition prices at Arizona public universities were frozen in response to growing complaints surrounding the rapid rise of college tuition and the...
View Article‘I’m my own man,’ City Council newcomer declares
Q & A With GUY PHILLIPS Editor’s note: Guy Phillips was recently elected — along with Suzanne Klapp and Virginia Korte — to the Scottsdale City Council. The Scottsdale Republic invited each to...
View ArticleNo. Please, no.
I don’t have anything factual to add to all of the information coming out of Newtown, Connecticut, about the massacre there on Friday. But here I am, writing about it, because to be in my business and...
View ArticleAndrew Thomas for governor (curse for Arizona, blessing for the media)
Along with a number of my brothers and sisters in the news business I received this precious gift of an e-mail this afternoon from disbarred former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas: “Dear Members...
View ArticleArias versus Renzi (Who?)
At the same time just about every media outlet on earth was in Phoenix for the reading of the Jodi Arias murder trial verdict hardly any media members (one exception being The Arizona Republic’s...
View ArticleNo kicking the Arias addiction
In newsrooms across the country editors, reporters, website operators, social media gurus and others are showing the first signs of withdrawal. They have the shakes. They’re feeling a little paranoid....
View ArticleMemories blow in with monsoon
I cleaned the big window in my living room Wednesday with a mix of vinegar and water, wiping the glass with scrunched-up newspaper, getting ready for the start of the monsoon. It seems fruitless, I...
View ArticleProof of our shocking inability to be shocked
The suicide of 33-year-old JoDon Romero has been available for viewing on the Internet every minute of every day since he killed himself on live TV in September. This week Romero’s family announced it...
View ArticleSteven Seagal for AZ governor? YES!
The holiday season is past, and yet here on my first day back from vacation I find a big, fat journalistic gift waiting for me, wrapped in gaudy fantasy, hyperbole and hallucination around which is...
View ArticleArizona’s bigotry toward parents
It’s not simply gay couples that Arizona discriminates against. It’s parents. And it’s not just any parents. It is those couples who often are willing to serve as foster parents and then to adopt our...
View Article‘Hero intern’ looks back — and ahead
I caught up Tuesday with Daniel Hernandez. He was a 21-year-old intern in the office of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords when the gunshots rang out on Jan. 8, 2011, outside a Tucson grocery store. He ran...
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