BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 17, 2013
Cave Creek’s ambitious agenda takes council late into the night
Trenk called APS a monopoly and its proposal nothing more than state-sanctioned corporate welfare
CAVE CREEK – Call to the Public brought David Smith (r) to the podium during Monday night’s council meeting to say he attended the previous week’s council workshop and noted how the mayor, vice mayor, council members and the town manager were invariably cordial to one another.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 17, 2013
Vice Mayor Adam Trenk’s recusal refusal
CAVE CREEK – During the June 25 special meeting of the town council, Vice Mayor Adam Trenk recused himself from an agenda item that had to do with his client TC Thorstenson’s Hogs and Horses development.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 17, 2013
The $1,723 letter from the ‘mayor’
From the opening sentence it was immediately evident the poorly written letter was not penned by the mayor
CAVE CREEK – Cave Creek and Desert Hills water customers received a letter, dated June 27, inserted with their bill this month from the Office of the Mayor, stamped with Mayor Vincent Francia’s signature.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | JULY 17, 2013
Referendums underway to allow voters to overturn bad laws
Carter ‘formed an alliance with Democratic elected officials for the express purpose of thwarting the will of the Republican majority …’
PHOENIX – The ink was barely dry from Gov. Jan Brewer signing HB 2010, the Medicaid expansion bill, since dubbed OBrewercare, when organizers vowed to file a referendum of A.R.S. §§ 36-2901.07 and 36-2901.08.
JULY 17, 2013
A barrage of bad news shows Obamacare is a 'monstrosity' that misses its goal and will add megabucks to our national debt
'The nickname, Obamacare, should be spelled Obamascare'
BOHEMIA, New York – "The people who wrote the Affordable Care Act apparently didn't know what was in it either. They touted it as the cure for what ails you. But three years later they have to admit that Obamacare, at best, was a mistake. At worst, it was pure and simple malfeasance."