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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Transgender Performance Artist Will Go There to North Carolina > A Higher Calling for Conscience

Get ready folks! North Carolina will soon be a more creative kind of place ...
Listen to this > it's gonna get fun for sure
"Selfies in the bathroom"

Shakina Nayfack is a transgender performer, born male she is now female. She will be doing a tour of North Carolina to protest the state's law which requires transgender people to use the public bathroom according to the gender on their birth certificate. She's been telling Newsday's Lawrence Pollard about her life, how her faith helped her transition and about her motivation for the protest.
(Picture: Shakina Nayfack. Credit: Shakina Nayfack's website).

10 May 2016

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Follow-Up to BIG ANNOUNCEMENT Mesa Economic Development Reporter 2014

Let's take a look back - and get a real world IRL [In RealLife] real-time up-to-date - about how relying on a "headlines approach" to economic development reporting from the City of Mesa's Office of Economic Development always seems to be very positive with a forecast of good things to come that drop off the radar screen for a while with "the good news" picked up by friendly reporters in the mainstream media, like this

Mesa mayor: Full steam ahead with $2B Apple command center

www.azcentral.com/.../mesa/.../mesa...command-center/277341...

The Arizona Republic

May 22, 2015 - PREVIOUSLY: Apple promises $2 billion command center in Mesa ... establish a command center for its global data networks in the same spot,

QUESTION: Almost a year later now, is what Mesa Mayor John Giles said about Apple moving "Full steam ahead" mebbe over-heated political rhetoric with inflated twerking?
So-called "high-paying" permanent full-time "jobs created" figures have been revised down from highs of 350-500 to less than 100. Temporary construction employees will increase, but according to a report yesterday in Phoenix Business Insider not everything is moving full-steam ahead . . .[only one job opening has been advertised]
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Monday, May 09, 2016

Grand Canyon University Back In The News: Follow All The Hoop-La > For-Profit Denied Public-Funded Tax Concessions

Is that the Christian cross in there?

Grand Canyon University warns taxes could send it to othercitiesazcentral.com-1 hour ago

Brian Mueller, Grand Canyon Education's CEO, said the Phoenix-based ... that shot down GCU's conversion plans, noting GCU had "absolutely nothing in ...

Why Grand Canyon University construction projects are expected to ...
Phoenix Business Journal (blog)-1 hour ago

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Grand Canyon University Property Tax Cut Bill Fails

KJZZ-May 6, 2016

Grand Canyon University Property Tax Cut Bill Fails ... owners in their neighborhood,” GCU President and CEO Brian Mueller wrote in a letter to faculty and staff.

Arizona Legislature shoots down tax break for Grand Canyon, other ...
Phoenix Business Journal-May 6, 2016

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Please take a look at all the media-hype just two years ago . . . expansion plans here in Mesa somehow "fell-through" for more reasons you might want to know

$30M, Hiring Plans Drive GCU Neighborhood Revitalization

Posted on September 25, 2014 by webmaster in Economic Development // 0 Comments

By Angela Gonzales for Phoenix Business Journal

"Brian Mueller, president and CEO of Grand Canyon Education Inc., has big plans for the neighborhood surrounding Grand Canyon University’s Phoenix campus (AZBEX, Sept. 16).
Not only does he plan to grow enrollment of that campus to 25,000 students over the next five years and increase the footprint of the campus to 240 acres, but he has bigger plans to revitalize the surrounding neighborhood.
Mueller said he plans to hire hundreds of people in the next couple of years and is working with local churches to identify qualified members of their congregation to fill those spots.
He’s starting with Love International for the first five jobs . . ."
Love International is next to a 30-acre parcel GCU recently acquired at 27th Avenue and Camelback Road.
On that land was a swap meet building that has been turned into an office complex that employs 700 GCU workers.
GCU also bought a hotel next door that had been used for prostitution and is being converted to a “Holiday Inn equivalent,” Mueller said. Plans call for building a restaurant, conference center and four-story office complex on that property fronting Camelback Road.
The total investment for that 30-acre parcel is about $30M, Mueller said.
Once that project is completed, GCU’s 800 employees in Peoria and 800 employees in Tempe will move to that center, creating a workforce of 2,400 people on that spot, he said.
GCU also just signed a contract with Habitat for Humanity to rehabilitate 700 homes between the 27th Avenue and Camelback acreage and GCU’s campus at 33rd Avenue and Camelback.
Source: here

Brian Mueller

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Brian E. Mueller is an American academic and university administrator. He is the current president of Grand Canyon University, having succeeded Kathleen Player on September 1, 2012. Mueller has been the CEO of the university since July 1, 2008 and a director since March 2009.^[3]
Prior to taking the reigns of Grand Canyon University, Mueller was the president and a director of Apollo Education Group, the parent company of the University of Phoenix. Mueller also held executive positions with the University of Phoenix Online including CEO, chief operating officer, and senior vice president. While in a leadership position, enrollment at the for-profit institution grew from 3,500 to 340,000.^[4]
Mueller graduated from Concordia University with a bachelor's degree in secondary education and a master's degree in education.










Salary	$621,000; total annual compensation total annual compensation $3,161,128
Website	gcu.edu

MesaZona Brings U 411 > Issues For The Public Otherwise Dis-Engaged

Times are changing - Pay Attention

Published on Apr 20, 2015

Video shows what off the radar means.

Unlikely to happen, or be important in the near future . . .
or
tending to escape detection or attention..
Off the radar Meaning. How to pronounce, definition audio dictionary

From Laurie Roberts: Another Arizona Election Snafu

At least 400,000 early voters didn’t get election info on time

Posted by Staff 8 mins ago

By Laurie Roberts | The Republic

From the here-we-go-again department: another Arizona election snafu. This time, involving vital information about what’s on the May 17 ballot. At least 400,000 early voters didn’t get a publicity pamphlet on time, as required by law, and some got it just last weekend – fully two weeks after early […]
Attorney Tom Ryan plans to file a complaint today with Attorney General Mark Brnovich, asking the election be postponed.

Affordabe Housing Advocate Elected Mayor of London

Sadiq Khan,British politician son of Pakistani immigrants who lived in council public housing, a Human Rights attorney, and an activist and advocate for affordable housing and public transit, won an historic victory in the London mayoral race, defeating Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate and wealthy scion of a billionaire banker, to become the first Muslim mayor of a major European city.
It's a milestone achievement for equal and fair rights to overcome discrimination, bias and prejudice.

The congratulatory messages had begun long before the official results were declared, coming from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, French Prime Minister Manuel Vales with Spanish origins, and others.

Jeremy Corbin, head of the Labor tweeted "Congtaulations @SadiqKhan. Can't wait to work with you to create a London that is fair for all. #YesWeKhan"
The New York Times had this to say, The world of the 21st century is going to be shaped by such elided, many-faceted identities and by the booming cities that celebrate diversity, not by some bullying, brash, bigoted white dude who wants to build walls.