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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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Arizona’s Economic Competitors
The following five states are seen as competitors to Arizona for economic development. (I listed them in order I personally feel are most competitive to least competitive)
Oregon
Utah
Colorado
New Mexico
Nevada
I think that Portland, OR and Boulder, CO are two cities that are [...]
The New Economy: A Guide For Arizona
Getting ready for the 96th Arizona Town Hall, I am reading their report Building Arizona’s Future: Jobs, Innovation & Competitiveness. It references a 1999 paper from the Morrison Institute The New Economy: A Guide for Arizona. It lists eight principles [...]
Posted in AZ, Gangplank
Tagged arizona, chandler, Community, creatives, economic development, Education, excellence, Gangplank, innovation, new economy, planning, policy, politics, sun corridor
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Proper Representation in US Congress
Some staggering statistics…
1789 – 1st Congress
Estimated population (2,500,000)
26 – Senators (1 to 96,154)
65 – Represenatives (1 to 38,642)
91 – Total Representatives (1 to 27,473)
2010 – 111th Congress
Estimated population (309,000,000)
100 – Senators (1 to 3,090,000)
435 – Represenatives (1 to 710,345)
535 – [...]
Sunday Review: Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Ken Robinson
I have decided to do a dead simple book review every Sunday. Some of this is to just share what I’m reading. Rather than go with some complex rating system a book will either be a thumbs up [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged creatives, Creativity, Education, excellence, innovation, motivation, music, policy, reading, theory
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Sunday Review: The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
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 Away: Corn. We consume a ton of it. Well written.
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 to the bone. In a move that I just can’t seem to [...]
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Tagged arizona, budget, Community, economic development, policy, politics, rv, state park system
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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 Away: Book felt forced. It would have been just as good being only half as [...]
Posted in Sunday Book Review
Tagged Community, creative class, creatives, economic development, policy
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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 is fabulous news. I think. It is hard to tell what it really means. What we know [...]
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 that use seniority or tenure for retention or reduction in force.
Districts no longer have to rehire [...]
