By Robert Robb | The Arizona RepublicThe City of Glendale is caught in an excruciating budget squeeze, due principally to debt from two big signature projects – the hockey arena and a spring training facility – that were supposed to pay for themselves but didn’t.As a result, the city faces a deficit of as much as a fifth of everything else in its general fund budget.
Glendale used to be boring. It was a successful, but sleepy, upper-middle class bedroom community. And it had unexciting but competent governance.
