Monthly Archives: February 2018

Tom McDonald Quoted in the Arizona Republic

Moon Valley Golf Course to Stop Irrigating with Drinking Water
[From AZCentral.com]

Most golf courses across the country have started to use non-potable, untreated water to maintain their green lawns. But there are a handful of courses in Phoenix still watering with drinking water.

 

The privately owned Moon Valley Country Club and Pointe Tapatio Lookout Mountain Golf Club have both been using drinking water since they were developed almost 60 years ago. But that will soon change.

Potable water treatment isn’t cheap. Tom McDonald, an attorney from Gammage & Burnham who has worked with Moon Valley to get off of potable water, said the Moon Valley community went through a bankruptcy a few years ago due largely in part to the high cost of water.

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Mike King’s Corner: Food Disparagement – The Revenge of the Pink Slime!!

Author: Michael R. King

Issue: February 22, 2018

 

QUESTION: DID ABC NEWS BITE OFF MORE THAN IT COULD CHEW WHEN IT ATTACKED BEEF PRODUCTS INC.’S LEAN FINELY TEXTURED BEEF?
ANSWER: ABC NEWS BACKED AWAY FROM THE TABLE AND WAVED A WHITE NAPKIN WHEN IT SETTLED THE $5.7 BILLION DOLLAR “PINK SLIME” AGRICULTURAL DISPARAGEMENT CASE!

What’s the beef?

Beef Products, Inc., was the world’s largest producer of lean boneless beef until Disney’s ABC News attacked its product calling it “Pink Slime.”  The series of reports by ABC News in March 2012 cost Beef Products 80% of its business. 

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Gammage & Burnham Newsletter – February 2018

Author: Gammage & Burnham

Issue: February 7, 2018

 

New Partners, Big Closings and Double Bubble Trouble

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G&B Client Closes Mirabella at ASU at end of 2017

In December, G&B client and nonprofit organization, Mirabella at ASU, Inc., a joint venture between the ASU Foundation and Oregon-based Pacific Retirement Services finalized tax-exempt bond financing for the construction of Mirabella at ASU. Mirabella at ASU is an innovative 20-story “Life Plan Continuing Care Retirement Community” located on the Arizona State University Tempe campus. The $250 million in bonds, which also constituted the largest bond offering in the country in December, were issued by The Industrial Development Authority of the City of Tempe.   The G&B team handling the transaction, which was the culmination of two years of effort, was led by Firm Members Jeff Miller, Kevin Merritt and Manjula Vaz.

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G&B Associate Lauren Fajkowski Admitted to Ladder Down Program

Congratulations to Associate Lauren Fajkowski for her admission to Ladder Down, class of 2018.

Ladder Down is a year-long program that provides direct training and career development for women lawyers through a combination of coaches and sponsors. The program aims to empower women lawyers in three critical areas:  leadership, business development, and mentoring. The course is comprised of recurring leadership training sessions with experienced business consultants, followed with business development training. Lauren will graduate from the year-long program at the end of 2018. G&B Partner Susan Demmitt is a former Ladder Down graduate who completed the program in 2015, along with Partner Heather Boysel who graduated in 2016.

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