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NEWS............................... 6 Scottsdale HOA slams door on vacation rentals.
NEIGHBORS .........20 He's putting environmental lessons on wheels.
BUSINESS ............... 29 Salon fulfills a desire to change the world
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Sunday, March 8, 2020
Scottsdale Election 2020 beginning to take shape BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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f early filings are any indication, Scottsdale voters can look forward to lengthy ballots in this year’s primary and general elections. Six candidates threw their hats in the ring to become the city’s next mayor and
10 residents are vying for three open city council seats. To make it onto the ballot, those candidates must turn in petitions “containing not less than 1,000 signatures or more than 10,430 signatures” by April 6, according to the city. Qualified candidates will face off against each other in the primary election on Aug.
4 and, if necessary, in the general election on Nov. 3. According to the city, a candidate must receive over 50 percent of the vote to be elected outright in the primary. The crowd does not thin out much further up the ballot, either: nearly 20 can-
Coronavirus starts Lights, camera, action! making an impact in Scottsdale
see ELECTIONS page 10
BY WAYNE SCHUTSKY Progress Managing Editor
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hough there has only been two cases of coronavirus in Arizona, one hit close to home for the City of Scottsdale. Four Scottsdale firefighters and a two-person ambulance crew were isolated after treating a man last week who later tested positive for COVID-19, also called novel coronavirus, according to a City of Scottsdale statement on March 5. The presumptive positive case here involves an employee at the downtown nightclub Riot House, which posted on its Facebook page the employee had limited interactions with cus-
see CORONA VIRUS page 8
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