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Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation and Competitiveness
This past April I attended the 96th Arizona Town Hall in Tucson Arizona. The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona serves as background information on the event. The result of the Town Hall was a set of recommendations (pdf). Recently [...]
Posted in AZ, Community, Education, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, music, phoenix, planning, policy, politics
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Political Bites: Door to Door Solicitors
Should door-to-door solicitors be regulated more or less than they already are?
Do we really need more government regulation? Is this really an issue that should be taking the time of Phoenix’s leadership during one of the worst recessions the city [...]
The World is Changing and so is our Economy
We might be in the midst of a recession, but I don’t think we have seen anything yet. Most of America is not willing to acknowledge a few key concepts.
1. Things won’t bounce back to where they were, expect recovery [...]
Posted in Community, Education, Personal
Tagged chandler, Community, creatives, Creativity, decay, detroit, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, recession, theory, urban decay
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Coworking is a commodity. It is a race to the bottom.
I read “A case against ‘free trial coworking‘” by Alex Hillman from IndyHall and it reminded why I can’t relate to the coworking movement. I purposefully use the word collaborative workspace when talking about Gangplank because implying that there is [...]
Posted in Gangplank
Tagged chandler, Community, Gangplank, innovation, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Phoenix Urbanites Cry Sprawl Foul, but Remain Most Guilty
A few times recently I have seen/heard Phoenix Urbanites disparage outside cities in derogatory terms using “sprawl” as their verbal assault of choice. Oddly the facts, don’t line up with their dogma.
Let’s look at total population, population density (people per [...]
Posted in AZ, Chandler
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, downtown, economic development, phoenix
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Do We Want It Badly Enough?
Richard Florida a leading economist talks answers the question “Will Phoenix rise from the ashes?“.
I am a firm believer that in fact we do need to build on our assets. I say this every chance I get. I often wonder [...]
Posted in AZ, Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, assets, creative class, creatives, desire, economic development, motivation, phoenix, theory
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Phoenix City Council Still Spineless
I remained hopeful that perhaps Phoenix had finally hit bottom. That it had sunk so low that it was willing to fight the stranglehold that land developers and the kookocracy had over it. I was assuming that “Phoenix may get [...]
Phoenix May Get It Right with Property Tax Hike
Today the City of Phoenix is considering raising property taxes.
No one really likes to talk about tax increases. However, people love to talk about all the services they expect. Health Care, Public Safety, Education, Parks and many more. Someone has [...]
Make Up of a Arizona Town Hall Group
Someone asked me how groups were selected for Arizona Town Hall. Frankly, I have no idea. I am putting my group listing here so that people can get an idea of what the make of a group looks like diversity [...]
Arizona Town Hall Session I & II
Ran into @szylstra and @kimberlanning tonight at the Arizona Town Hall. So here is the 10 second overview. About 150 people are selected to participate in the Town Hall. They are then broken in to groups by the organizers. The [...]
Posted in AZ
Tagged arizona, AZ, Community, economic development, innovation, phoenix, planning, policy, politics
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