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Capitalist Fools
June 2, 2013 The Glendale City Council should have the information they need to begin discussing a plan to deal with the arena they own. The agenda for the upcoming Tuesday, June 4 meeting has the regular executive session agenda placeholder for arena discussions. So, if you were hoping for discourse that wasn’t private and behind…
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Coyotes Rumor Roundup – June, 2013
June 30, 2013 In the interest of civic duty, I’ve added a link to the Arizona Secretary of State’s form for submitting an open meeting law violation complaint. Click here for the form. Why would you want that? Maybe you are unhappy that Ken Jones apparently received confidential information that had only been discussed in…
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Journalism, Schmournalism
You should be embarrassed, Mark Curtis, and you should apologize to the viewers you misled with your words yesterday evening. I’ll admit I missed it, having moved on from KPNX some time ago. While the video posted online doesn’t indicate anything, perhaps you actually identified your piece as an editorial rather than a news piece….
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Not Just A Summer Rerun
It’s tempting to say “here we go again” with the latest round of ownership news. It’s not the same, though, we’re further down a bunch of roads. Some of what follows is cribbed from Craig Morgan’s piece he dropped while “on vacation” from a super secret but fun location. Deal Fatigue It was around this time…
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Coyotes Bidders Are Serious
Taking the advice of a local PR boffin, we requested supporting information from the City of Glendale. Maybe it would be more proper English to use “seriousness” rather than “serious” in describing a fictional barometer, but that’s okay since no such barometer actually exists in many minds. We all want to know who the “serious” bidders…
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Spin The Coyotes
What if you wanted Greg Jamison to go away? What if you managed to get a story published that made it appear Greg Jamison was begging for a deadline extension while providing public assurance his bid was likely to succeed? That would make him look bad, wouldn’t it? It would make it easier to later dismiss…