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Civic Duty: Respond to the Census
You should have received your 2010 US Census in the mail recently. I have seen people make fun of the postal mail telling you to be looking for it and the additional mail reminding you to fill out it and [...]
Arizona Economic Development Can’t Seem To Get It Right
It looks like Arizona Legislature is trying to get business friendly. I applaud that they are trying to do something. I just think they don’t get it. Why is this state hell bent on simply attracting a multi-billion dollar manufacturing/production [...]
Posted in Gangplank, Startups
Tagged arizona, economic development, innovation, motivation, phoenix, politics
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11 Months of Phoenix Metro Rail Ridership Data?
I saw RailLife post Metro Rail ridership numbers from Jan 2009 through Nov 2009. I was curious what these numbers looked like graphed out, so I quickly plotted the weekday, saturday and sunday/holiday numbers.
I then wondered what effect temperature may [...]
Regional Ruby Conference in Phoenix, Arizona
There was a call for conference planning for a Regional Ruby Conference on the Ruby AZ meeting list recently. It was at the request of fellow local Ruby company DevFu that I decided to attend. I showed up [...]
Importing Manufacturing.. Boon or Bust?
The largest Chinese manufacturer of solar panels, Suntech Power, has announced that it is opening a manufacturing plant here in Metro Phoenix. This is fabulous news. I think. It is hard to tell what it really means. What we know [...]
We Take Open Space for Granted
One of the best things about living in metro Phoenix is that we can be in the center of a seemingly never ending city, but still be surrounded by the beauty of the desert at every turn. There is a [...]
Posted in Community, Personal
Tagged arizona, chandler, economic development, maricopa county, maricopa trail, parks, phoenix
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U of A in Downtown Phoenix.. Does This Smell Funny?
There is a lot of talk about U of A building a new cancer center in downtown Phoenix. There is no denying that this would help fulfill long ago given promises made by the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. I am not [...]
Posted in Education
Tagged arizona, asu, biomedical campus, downtown, economic development, Education, phoenix, politics, uofa
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Helping Find the Money To Make It
I read the Phoenix Business Journal every week as part of keeping up with business here in Metro Phoenix. I was floored when I read “Finding the money to make it“. What was incredible to me were the [...]
Creative Economy AZ (My Take)
Based on the Gangplank Futurespective, one thing I promised myself to investigate was Creative Economy AZ. This is an initiative to raise 1/10th of cent sales tax for the next 20 years to help fund the arts. I spent a [...]
Posted in Creativity, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, Community, creative class, creatives, Creativity, economic development, Gangplank, music, phoenix, policy, politics
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Slashing K12 Budget, Getting Real is a Bitch
Many people asked me what I thought about State Legistlator approving a nearly $140 million cut in soft capital budget for K-12 education. I never like to see education getting it’s budget cut. However, it’s time to get real. Getting [...]
