In response to an anonymous email missive from Scottsdale city council incumbent Virginia Korte this morning, Scottsdale artist and downtown gallery owner, Bob Pejman, penned the reply below which really digs to the bottom line. To Bob’s commentary I add the following: Along with hotels, merchants and galleries have historically been the mechanism by which […]
Invented Social Combinations
I do not dispute their right to invent social combinations, to advertise them, to advocate them, and to try them upon themselves, at their own expense and risk. But I do dispute their right to impose these plans upon us by law – by force – and to compel us to pay for them with […]
Remembering Herb
I was doing a little research the other day and ran across a nice remembrance of Herb Drinkwater from a few years ago by Pierre O’Rourke. I don’t have any illusions that I can live up to Drinkwater’s legacy, and I don’t want to try. But there were a lot of things to like about […]
Campaign Time Warp
I was researching another topic this morning and ran across this four-year-old article from Sonoran News. I thought I would share it for your amusement. I also note with some humor that the editors of the Republic in endorsing Lane this time around, called me a “bomb-thrower.” When I was posting this article, my computer […]
The REAL Independence Day
As Councilman Bob Littlefield says of Memorial Day, most folks think it’s National Barbeque Day. For many Zonies, the 4th of July is either a day to argue about whether fireworks should be used in the tinderbox that is our pre-monsoon desert, or it’s a weekend to spend out-of-the-heat on the Mogollon Rim or in […]