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Unlock Your Inner Creator. Make Something Today.
We are wired to create. It is in our DNA. We have it systematically beaten out of us on a regular basis. We are told we aren’t good enough to try things. We lose our curiousity and our ability experiment [...]
Posted in AZ, Creativity
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Political Bites : Tempe Street Car Proposal
Is Tempe’s modern streetcar the best use of limited transit dollars? Why or why not?
No. We need more regional connectivity. We need to be connecting cities in ways that have fewer stops and run with higher frequency. Bus Rapid Transit [...]
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Political Bites : Raze Foreclosed Homes
Would razing foreclosed homes or forgiving underwater mortgages help the local housing market?
Razing makes sense if the home has become serious blight. In cases, where the structure is still in tact, but vacant it probably makes sense to repurpose them. [...]
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Valley Area Libraries Now Support Kindle Book Reader
I love to read. I love libraries. I have blogged before about my obsession with books. I regularly put out book reviews. I am extremely active on Goodreads. So today, is a special day for me. Many of the Metro [...]
Posted in AZ, Chandler, Education, Personal, Sunday Book Review
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The Reality of Arizona Startup Community
It is important that we face the brutal facts about Arizona’s startup community. Before you think I am being negative please read Harsh Reality Needed.
The majority of ideas being presented here are shitty. There I said it. I let out [...]
Posted in AZ, Personal
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Sunday Book Review : Phoenix Then and Now by Paul Scharbach
Phoenix Then and Now by Paul Scharbach
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really like history. I admire architecture. I love Phoenix. I enjoy good photography. Roll them all into a single coffee table book and I am in. I loved [...]
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AZ Commerce Authority Full of Wrong Industry
Governer Jan Brewer announced the new AZ Commerce Authority Board today. It is no surprise that it is full of Land Developers, Sports/Tourism and Manufacturing. All industries that were leaders of the OLD economy.
All of the people appointed appear intelligent [...]
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Thoughts On Deep Economy
Some notes on Deep Economy by Bill McKibben
“Perhaps the very act of acquiring so much stuff has turned us ever more into individuals and ever less into members of a community, isolating us in a way that runs contrary to [...]
Brian Cole on Arizona Economic Development April 27th 2010
More AZ Town Hall Notes.. Brian Cole talk.
Calculating your top economic development strategies. Statewide policy. Community focused strategic plans.
Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
How we gonna get there?
Traditional Approach
Vision statement
SWOT analysis
Demographic analysis
What have we been doing
What do most [...]
Joe Kalt on Arizona Economy April 26th 2010
More notes from Arizona Town Hall in April of 2010. Joesph Kalt an economist from Harvard speaks…
April 2010 Facts
Unemployment rate at national average
Underemployment rate at top (300,000 jobs lost, 1 in 9)
State tax receipts down by 33%
Budget gap largest in [...]
