Well, that didn’t last long …

An uneasy truce between Mayor Lisa Borowsky and the City Council majority – better known as “the bloc” – exploded in a string of insults, accusations and counter-accusations last week.

With the fiery multi-party exchange, hopes that the second half of 2025 will be different from the first seemed to go up in smoke.

City Council’s seven-week summer break ends Monday, Aug. 25. A few days before, Terrance Thornton – Borowksy’s chief of staff – sent out an email to dozens of media outlets about that meeting.

The missive began innocuously: “Scottsdale Fire Chief Tom Shannon will outline the department’s future wildfire mitigation strategies at the next City Council meeting set for Monday, Aug. 25.”

Two paragraphs later, Thornton and Borowsky lower the boom, acc

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