Update: At a Sept. 12 "special meeting," Councilwoman Solange Whitehead's motion "to file a notice of claim" against the state re "the Axon bill" passed, 6-1. (Kathy Littlefield opposed.)

Moments before, Councilman Barry Graham's motion to filed a full lawsuit against the state re the Axon bill failed, 3-4. (Graham, Littlefield, Dubauskas for; Borowsky, Kwasman, Whitehead, McAllen opposed.

Things might have been very different, if Shakespeare had pictured Hamlet not as a prince, but as a lawyer.

“To sue, or not to sue?” the Dane would have pondered.

And then, the conclusion:

“Pox it – I’ll just put off any decision.”

A similar anti-climax brought down the curtain on the latest Scottsdale City Council drama.

This time, the star of the Sept. 9 show was a last-minute agenda item, with

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