Skip To Main Content
Tom Scanlon on Muck Rack

Tom Scanlon

Verified
Cave Creek, Phoenix
As seen in: Hark Valley, Scottsdale Progress, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Yahoo News, Aol, PBS, Yahoo Finance, Flipboard, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and
Managing editor of the Mesa Tribune. Recently launched HARK Valley (Facebook/Bulletin newsletter). Previously covered music at the Seattle Times
Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work. Claim your profile

Get in touch with Tom

Contact Tom, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Is this you?

As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile

Articles

Thompson returns to Scottsdale (ish)

|
By Tom Scanlon Verified
| East Valley Tribune Verified
He’s back. And yet – he’s not back. Scottsdale City Manager Jim Thompson handed in his keys at the end of 2024, leaving Scottsdale City Hall to run Loveland, Colorado. At the end of April, Loveland announced Thompson’s retirement, effective July 7. But Thompson was not retiring-retiring. After 40 years in city government, Thompson joined Scottsdale Planning Commissioner Ali Fakih’s Sustainability Engineering Group.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

Scottsdale primary: Whitehead wins, four stay alive Original

|
By Tom Scanlon Verified
| Scottsdale Progress Verified
In the midst of celebrating its 75th anniversary, Scottsdale is wrapping perhaps its roughest, harshly-battled, “nastiest” election. Based on unofficial results of the July 21 primary, Councilwoman Solange Whitehead successfully defended her seat with an outright win. A late-night July 22 release from Maricopa County Elections  stated 99% of the ballots county-wide were counted. Whitehead had 17.5% of Scottsdale’s votes – comfortably above the 16.7% needed for an outright win.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?

Scottsdale mayor rips into councilman (again) Original

|
By Tom Scanlon Verified
| Scottsdale Progress Verified
As her term runs through 2028, Mayor Lisa Borowsky was not on the July 21 primary ballot. But she is certainly an interested onlooker – and hardly partial, judging from a blistering attack on a Scottsdale City Council candidate.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (2) Issue with article?
See all 3,200 licensed articles (3,644 Total)