Posts Tagged policy

Arizona Robbing Peter to Pay Paul (State Park System)

Arizona is in a fiscal melt down.  They need to balance the budget.  The state is going to have to get creative to do so without slashing everything

Personal

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Sunday Review: Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life by Richard Florida

Thumbs up means I highly recommend reading the book. A thumbs down means read something else unless you have free time on your hands. Take Awa

Sunday Book Review

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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

Startups

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Maybe Teacher Unions Are Part of the Problem

House Bill 2011 was signed on September 4th and went into effect November 24th.  What exactly is bill 2011? Districts can no longer have policies

Education

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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

Creativity, Gangplank

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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 l

Education, Personal

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The Arizona We Want Where Doing Takes Ten Years

Dr. Lattie Coor, started a Think Do Tank (Center for the Future of Arizona) after stepping down as president of Arizona State University in 2002.  I

Community, Gangplank

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Phoenix Citizens Seriously Under Represented

Sam Richard has an excellent piece over at the Downtown Phoenix Journal on Size Does Matter.  He discusses how messed up the boundaries and represent

Personal

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We Have To Stop Laughing At California Now

We can't make fun of the Terminator Govenenor or bad discussion making in California for much longer. As currently we are knocking on their doorstep

Community, Creativity, Education

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So What Exactly Is Keeping You In Your Current Mortgage?

The bailout had it all wrong.  It attempted to fix problems in the system by letting the very people that got us in trouble apply the fix, THE BANKS.

Personal

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