If Gertrude Stein covered Scottsdale politics, she might muse: A bloc is a bloc is a bloc.

Scottsdale City Council is back in action this week. The Monday and Tuesday back-to-back meetings are the first council regular sessions – though there was a work study last week – in two months.

During the break, the Progress has been analyzing the year-to-date of Scottsdale’s elected officials in alphabetical order.

The Aug. 17 profile of veteran Councilwoman Kathy Littlefield included fellow longtime Councilwoman Solange Whitehead’s slam of the conservative-dominated 2025 City Council voting as “a bloc” – Whitehead’s term for the voting powerhouse of Littlefield and fellow reps Barry Graham, Jan Dubauskas and Adam Kwasman.

That was met with howls of protest from “the Bobs:” Bob Littlefield, a

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