Michael Clancy – The Arizona Republic Mayo Clinic Hospital is hoping to get approval from the City of Phoenix to build the tallest buildings outside of downtown Phoenix. The plan is to add four 250-foot-tall buildings at the 56th Street facility in northeast Phoenix. View the news article

Pat Lamer The subterfuge tactics of SRP and developer Richard Hayslip was not completely successful in hiding the clearly pre-determined relocation of an SRP substation. View the news article

Alex Bloom – The Republic | azcentral.com Notre Dame Preparatory is planning a $76 million expansion project that would increase class sizes. The success of this plan will depend largely upon the donations from the community. View the news article

Andrew Junker – The Catholic Sun Notre Dame Preparatory plans to expand the size of their campus and student body using unused city land in Scottsdale. View the news article

Laurie Roberts Once influential members of the Scottsdale community are now having a more difficult time having their voices heard by the local government. View the news article

Lynh Bui, The Arizona Republic The Scottsdale City Council approved an alleyway abandonment that will make way to relocate a controversial SRP electrical substation to the northeastern corner of 68th Street and Indian School Road. The council voted 5-2 in favor of the abandonment in a seven-hour meeting that began Wednesday evening and stretched past…

In Scottsdale, you’ve never really needed a program to tell the players, the people who have long had entrée into city offices and the ear of the People Who Run Things. These days, however, the influence of some of Scottsdale’s long-established players is fading. Here are a few who may find city hall not so…

2009 is sure to be fascinating, given how the city has been shaken by political, economic forces. The champagne has run dry, the party hats are put away and the holiday bubble, so to speak, has burst. Finally, it’s 2009. I don’t know about your, but I’m glad to see the old year go. Everything…

Beth Duckett, The Arizona Republic Former Fountain Hills Mayor Wally Nichols is heading a committee seeking to defeat a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot. Save Our Small Town, a group of residents, supports the referendum. They oppose what they believe would be undesirable effects, especially traffic, from a 1,350-home development planned by the Ellman…

Beth Duckett, The Arizona Republic Plans to build 1,000 homes east of Fountain Hills got the initial thumbs up Wednesday from the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors. Overlooking complaints from the nearby Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, the supervisors voted 5-0 to approve a master-plan amendment for the Preserve at Goldfield Ranch, a subdivision headed by…