New Website by Jim Hesterman for Queen's Pizzeria

Hand-made + Family-owned and operated
Pizza
Made Fresh Daily!        
You Know You Want Some
Your Neighborhood Family Owned Pizza Place PALACE
We pride ourselves in creating fresh, delicious, made-to-order pizza, sandwiches, wings, calzones, strombolis, and salads. We make and bake our own bread and pizza dough daily at Queens. Whether you come into our restaurant or order for take-out, you will be impressed with our uncompromising quality, freshness, superior customer service, and above all, great food!!If you love dessert, we have Brownies, Cannolis, Cheesecake, and more!

Happy Hour 3-6pm Daily

Daily drink specials 4 and 5 dollar select appetizers

EVENTS

Every Saturday Night is COMEDY NIGHT at QUEENS PIZZERIA!

Open late for Special Events On-going:

2nd Friday in Downtown Mesa: Every second Friday of the month from 6pm to ?? in Downtown Mesa. Come check out second Friday’s hottest destination for live entertainment and of course, pizza....only at Queens!
Motorcycles on Main: 1st friday of each month from 6pm to close. The downtown streets are closed and motorcycles are parked on both sides of the street and down the middle (sturgis-style). Come see all the great motorcycles, visit with friends, drink beer in the beer gardens, tour the shops, and enjoy the best pizzas, sandwiches, wings, and salads at queen's!

Link >> http://www.queenspizzeria.com/

                        

LATEST NEWS

• Host Your Special Event at Queens Pizzeria! Contact us for pricing and information.
• In Addition To Comedy On Saturdays We Now Have Poker On Thursdays!
• Attention Local Artists and Musicians!! Are you interested in showcasing your art or performing for our guests? Let's talk!

 

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Gross Domestic Product by Industry: 3rd Quarter 2016 from BEA

EMBARGOED UNTIL RELEASE AT 8:30 A.M. EST, Thursday, January 19, 2017

BEA 17—02

Gross Domestic Product by Industry: 3rd Quarter 2016
Finance and Insurance Led Growth in the Third Quarter

Finance and insurance; wholesale trade; and information services were the leading contributors to the increase in U.S. economic growth in the third quarter of 2016. According to gross domestic product (GDP) by industry statistics released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, 20 of 22 industry groups contributed to the overall 3.5 percent increase in real GDP in the third quarter.

For the finance and insurance industry group, real value added—a measure of an industry’s contribution to GDP—increased 9.0 percent in the third quarter, after decreasing 0.1 percent in the second quarter. The third quarter growth primarily reflected increases in Federal Reserve banks, credit intermediation, and related activities, as well as insurance carriers and related activities.

Wholesale trade increased 8.3 percent, after increasing 1.0 percent. This was the largest increase since the third quarter of 2014.

Information services increased 8.6 percent, after decreasing 0.2 percent, primarily reflecting an increase in the broadcasting and telecommunications industries.

 

Other highlights

• Durable goods manufacturing increased 5.1 percent in the third quarter, after increasing 0.3 percent in the second. The third quarter growth primarily reflected increases in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing, as well as computer and electronic products manufacturing.
• Retail trade increased 2.6 percent, after decreasing 2.8 percent, primarily reflecting an increase in general merchandise stores.
• Administrative and waste management services increased 5.7 percent, after increasing 1.1 percent. The third quarter growth primarily reflected an increase in administrative and support services, which includes industries like employment services and business support services.

 

Gross output by industry
Real gross output—principally a measure of an industry’s sales or receipts, which includes sales to final users in the economy (GDP) and sales to other industries (intermediate inputs)—increased in the third quarter. This reflected increases in real gross output for both the private goods- and services-producing sectors, as well as the government sector.
Overall, real gross output increased in 19 of 22 industry groups.

Real gross output for durable goods manufacturing increased 2.8 percent, after decreasing 2.0 percent in the second quarter.

Information services increased 8.5 percent, after decreasing 2.3 percent. This was the largest increase since the third quarter of 2013.

Finance and insurance increased 3.0 percent, after increasing 6.0 percent. This was the fourth consecutive quarterly increase.

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Next release — April 21, 2017 at 8:30 A.M. EDT for:
Gross Domestic Product by Industry: Fourth Quarter and Annual 2016

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• Access BEA data by registering for BEA’s Data Application Programming Interface (API)
• Industry Concepts and Methods: Concepts and Methods of the U.S. Input-Output Accounts

WTFark? Let's Call PM-25 What It Is : AIR POLLUTION

PhxWeeklyOutlook:

PM-2.5 increasing after tomorrow's rain...

ADEQ sent this bulletin at 01/22/2017 11:17 AM MST

Weekly Air Quality Forecast

for areas within and bordering Maricopa County in Arizona

NOTE: THIS PRODUCT IS NOT TO BE USED OR POSTED BEYOND MONDAY OF EACH WEEK. Instead, refer to the Daily Air Quality Forecast HERE for the latest info...

ISSUED: Sunday, January 22, 2016 2017

The main pollutant of concern this week will be PM-2.5.

Air quality tomorrow should be just fine as another weather system will be pushing through the region bring more wind and rain. By Tuesday, calmer weather conditions will begin to set back in over the region and allow PM-2.5 trend upwards... Read more  

ADEQ Bulletin Jan 22, 2017

AIR POLLUTION in Mesa and Maricopa County is a persistent and recurring health-threatening problem - it's more than "an issue" or "a challenge"  as you can see in the mapping to the left for ozone and particulate matter POLLUTION.

The sources are identified in the image at the start of this post.If this isn't one of those so-called "Quality of Life" issues your MesaZona blogger doesn't know what is.

Who can name one person here in Mesa or Maricopa County - elected to city government or hired to protect the environment - who is dealing with this very visible threat to personal health that affects us all?

Here's a moving image from last year tracking the problem

 

Deadline Today: PROPOSALS

MAIN STREET PROTOTYPING FESTIVAL

DREAM | DESIGN | DISCOVER

The Main Street Prototyping Festival is a project that invites the community to dream and design ideas to build connections and make downtown Mesa more vibrant.
Prototyping public space is a way of involving a range of people to come up with possible solutions to community needs in a physical space.

Readers can find a post about this from December 16, 2016 for some more details

https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2016/12/mesa-announces-main-street-prototyping.html

 

The City of Mesa, Mesa Arts Center (MAC), Neighborhood Economic Development Corp. (NEDCO), Local Initiatives Support Corporation Phoenix (LISC) and Downtown Mesa Association (DMA) are working together to engage creative minds and the community in testing ideas that respond to dreams, needs and desires of citizens and visitors.

“The beauty of this project is that it enables experimentation with a variety of potential enhancements that can impact both community and economic development,” said Cindy Ornstein, Director of Mesa’s Department of Arts and Culture and Executive Director of Mesa Arts Center. “This way, residents and visitors get to explore and respond to ideas in the flesh, and future investments or longer-term testing can be based on knowledge of what worked and the needed adjustments that may make it work better.”

At the culminating festival, residents will be invited to provide feedback and vote for their favorite prototypes, and those they feel will provide the most benefits to downtown and its visitors.

A total of 20-25 prototype concepts will be selected for implementation at the fall 2017 festival, with each project allocated $1,000-$3,000 for design, fabrication and project management.

 

The City of Mesa has begun a series of thoughtful and connected activities that seek to transform Mesa's downtown and public spaces by involving residents in discovering and designing the heart of our city. 

One new aspect of this creative placemaking initiative, led by Mesa Arts Center, is Mesa’s Main Street Prototyping Festival

 

Who can apply?
We are seeking proposals from all types of disciplines, perspectives and areas of passion to submit prototype ideas to make Downtown Mesa’s public spaces more interactive and connected. This opportunity is not limited to artists, architects, or designers, but to all who are interested, and anyone with a great idea is encouraged to apply. Applicants can recruit team members with various skills needed to realize their concept, and can apply as an individual or a team.

Criteria
From concept to creation, each project must align with the criteria to be considered for selection. Proposals must create a sense of community, be engaging and feasible (both to be built or performed, and to provide and withstand interactivity and engagement over a two-day event).

1. Sense of Community

• Enhances the character of the surrounding communities and environment.
• Project reflects that the applicant has considered and responded to community input. 
• Demonstrates innovative ways people can interact, or could interact, with one another in Downtown Mesa.
• Project activates downtown. 

2. Engaging

• Increases community's desire to spend time in downtown.
• Encourages a visitor to come more frequently and to stay longer.
• Draws and activates a diverse audience.
• Alters people’s interaction with downtown and each other.

3. Sustainable

• Project can be maintained over the specified duration.
• Project is able to withstand an urban environment and various weather conditions.
• Concept is attractive and innovative.
• Applicant provides evidence of capacity (individually or as a team) to implement proposed concept.

Proposal applications can be downloaded here

 

Prototyping: (noun) to create and test an experimental model of a new idea or object.

The Main Street Prototyping Festival is part of the larger Mesa Downtown Lab Project, which seeks to enhance downtown through community-led design and experimentation. The Prototyping project asks residents, artists, and urban planners to dream, design ideas, and discover a more welcoming, diverse and connected downtown Mesa, through two primary project activities:

Mesa Mayor John Giles: More Under-Handed Signals for #SOTC17?

What will the future hold for John Giles? It's in his hands to show in the upcoming $50-buck tickets - "a limited number" are now still available for next week's local extravaganza State-of-The-City Speech III.
Last year it all started with his running onto the stage from the back-of-the-room re-living no doubt his track career as a college athlete.
Though who wrote the script remains a mystery, appearing with a costumed character named "Sparky" for the key cornerstone of his campaign somehow didn't work out ...

In fact the Pie-In-The-Sky half-baked plan to locate a satellite ASU campus here downtown never had a chance to get off the ground- voters rejected the direction Giles wanted to take the city.
So what direction will this personal injury and accident law attorney-turned politician
go in next?

Spinning his wheels in the mud, or "Keep Climbing" and trying to get traction on an upward slope only to reach flat-lined growth and then coasting downhill for his NextMesa challenge?

Can John Giles lead or is he just a cheerleader on the sidelines?