Congrats to new councilmembers Karin Uhlich and Nina Trasoff as they thumped the incumbents Dunbar & Ronstadt tonight by impressive margins. Precinct-by-precinct maps of turnout and percentage of votes for Uhlich and for Trasoff are now available for your perusal.
Looks like we’ve finally given ourselves the city government we’ve been waiting for with a 5-1-1 [...]

It was announced last week that Google will be expanding into the Phoenix area, where it will provide more than 600 high-wage, high-tech jobs to boost the economy of our neighbors to the north.
Now, the Arizona Republic and East Valley Tribune are reporting that various Maricopa County cities are competing over who will house the [...]

The campaign finance reports are in through 8/24/05, and Fred Ronstadt’s Foothills money is still flowing in.
Most of Fred’s contributors can’t vote in the City, but they certainly do open their wallets to help their candidate do their bidding:
Out of Fred’s 272 total contributors, only 30 individuals live in Ward 6!
72% of his contributors live [...]

Ward 6 incumbent Republican Fred Ronstadt announced last year that he was not taking part in the City Clean Elections program in order to “save taxpayers’ money”. (The real reason was to rake in unlimited private cash while undercutting campaign finance reform, but that’s another story.)
The Star reports today that Fred seems to love to [...]

There’s been a lot of talk from my Democratic opponent that I’m a good progressive, but that she is somehow more likely to beat Fred Ronstadt in the general election. It’s time to confront that issue directly. Who really is more able to beat Fred in November?
Nina Trasoff says she is more electable because last [...]

We’ve made our interactive feature mapping Fred’s contributions even more compelling. There’s now a fully interactive page mapping where the Friends O’ Farley contributors live. And there is an amazing comparison page that flips back and forth from a map of the Ronstadt contributions to a map of the Farley contributions: a revealing geography lesson [...]

The campaign finance reports are in through 5/31/05, and Fred Ronstadt is finally revealing where his money is coming from. Drum roll, please…. The Foothills!
Yes, it’s hardly surprising that he’s getting big money from outside the city limits, but there are a couple of particularly eye-opening facts revealed in this filing:
Out of Fred’s 105 [...]

In the same week that Fred is dealing with the major issues facing our city by declaring an “Elephant Crisis”, the Star informs us that we have no choice but to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to drink sewage water direct from our taps in the very near future.
Fred is already on record approving [...]

In further evidence that Fred Ronstadt doesn’t have the support even of his own party, he failed to file the maximum allowable number of nomination signatures with the City Clerk to qualify as a candidate.
The law requires that candidates for city office file a minimum number of nominating signatures from registered voters in the [...]