HAH! Anonymous Group Report Mesa Corruption Strikes Again

Perhaps a Zinger headed out to left field on the playing field of politics here in The Most Conservative City in America, but hey at least it's not boring, right?

The little local group is switching leagues from playing softball to hitting hardball with throwing this recent fast-pitch online that looks like it has scored a hit on District 6 Mesa City Council member Kevin Thompson.

Stay tuned for more but continue watching this group who wants to remain anonymous

Report Mesa Corruption at City of Mesa, Arizona Government.

· 4 hrs · Mesa ·

"Rumors around the city have started to fly regarding a potential future Mesa Mayoral race of Kevin Thompson for 2020. Thompson appears to has started his 2018 re-election campaign slowly and is running unopposed. City staff and east valley residents are well aware of his disdain for Mayor John Giles for his lack of solid leadership and consistent two face lying. Thompson, from what we've heard and gathered is also tired of the old Mesa guard and their affinity to slow process to slow processes down, waste tax payer money and only serve themselves. While we don't agree with all of Thompson's policies and don't know him well, we would welcome a change from someone who is a well known liar like John Giles."

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Re/Imaging The Workforce Future Present: "New Collar Jobs

Mebbe you MesaZona blogger might be susceptible from time-to-time to radical thinking, but why have jobs/sources of employment oftentimes been using the word collar  to describe the delineating of types of workers in the past: Blue Collar or White Collar?
Buttoned-up, buttoned-down? No-collar open-neck shirts? Why use the word "collar" at all?
Who's to say?
Like most out-of-date concepts, this one appears to stick to describe the workforce employment opportunities-of-the-future as New Collar Jobs.
Who said they came up with this idea a few months ago?
"If we would change the basis and align what is taught in school with what is needed with business ... that's where I came up with this idea of 'new collar.' Not blue collar or white collar," she said.

IBM CEO: Jobs of the future won't be blue or white collar, they'll be 'new collar'

Anita Balakrishnan | Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

Tuesday, 17 Jan 2017 | 11:55 AM ET

Fears that artificial intelligence will steal jobs are largely unfounded, and the technology will instead work cohesively with most professions, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty said Tuesday.

"It is a partnership between man and machine, if you want to put it that way," Rometty said in an interview on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"Think more about activities changing with the technologies. When you do your job, there will be things that take you a lot of time to research and do," she said. "Yes, they'll be done faster. Then you have the time to do what I think we all humans do best."

At the World Economic Forum. Rometty discussed artificial intelligence alongside Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Joichi Ito, director of MIT's Media Lab.

Read more of the report and hear/watch a video that's included in the two reporters report on CNBC in the Davos World Economic Forum here

 

 

 

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What Is A “New-Collar Job”?

The rise of the “new-collar job” and what it means for the workplace
Source > https://www.gnapartners.com/blog/new-collar-job/
"Although pop culture may make it seem otherwise, not everyone goes to college right after high school. In fact, only about 34 percent of the U.S. adult population has a bachelor’s degree or higher, and the number of graduating high school seniors going to college in recent years has been declining as well.
This spells trouble when compared with projections on future workforce needs, which estimate that 35 percent of jobs created in the next three years will require at least a bachelor’s degree, and findings from employer surveys, which indicate that nearly a third of employers have increased their educational requirements for positions that used to require only a high school diploma.
This gap between expected job growth and the rising cost of a four-year college degree (plus the crushing loan debt many recent grads are facing) has contributed to concerns about the shrinking opportunities for middle-class Americans to get high-paying, traditionally white-collar jobs at the same time as the blue-collar job market continues to lag behind in terms of job creation.
But it’s not all bad news: This chasm has also resulted in the creation of an entirely new category in the American labor market: the “new-collar job.”
New-collar jobs (also called middle-skill or no-collar jobs) are those that prioritize worker skills over education, particularly in industries like technology and health care.

The term “new-collar” became widely popularized in an op-ed piece by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty in USA Today. In the piece, Rometty extolls the value these kinds of workers can offer:

“But even as many seek to revitalize traditional industries, lasting job creation will require an understanding of important new dynamics in the global labor market. This is not about white collar vs. blue collar jobs, but about the “new collar” jobs that employers in many industries demand, but which remain largely unfilled.

…[The] nature of work is evolving – and that is also why so many of these jobs remain hard to fill. As industries from manufacturing to agriculture are reshaped by data science and cloud computing, jobs are being created that demand new skills – which in turn requires new approaches to education, training and recruiting.
And the surprising thing is that not all these positions require advanced education. Certainly, some do… [but] in many other cases, new collar jobs may not require a traditional college degree…What matters most is that these employees – with jobs such as cloud computing technicians and services delivery specialists – have relevant skills, often obtained through vocational training.” 


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Gosh! Whoa! Say What? The Mormons Could Have Saved Us

Just to be fair and balanced, your MesaZona blogger subscribes to The Mormon Daily News Report. Retrieved from the inbox just now a piece about Jeff Flake and you, dear reader, can judge how Mormons interpret the news written by others in the media by truncating the real headline in the original published piece
The Mormons Could've Saved Us (Huffington Post)

The Huffington Post looks at fellow Mormon Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and his continued spotlight as one of the few Republicans speaking out against the Trump organization. Contributor Jason P. Steed writes "Flake is a Mormon (a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Mormons have largely voted Republican since the 1970s.

Typically, they vote for the Republican presidential candidate at a rate of roughly 75 percent — and that rate spiked to 85 percent when Mitt Romney ran for president in 2012. (Romney’s a Mormon too.) But Mormons didn’t like Trump in 2016. Romney spoke out forcefully against Trump’s candidacy in March. Evan McMullin (also Mormon) launched an anti-Trump third-party bid for the presidency. The New Yorker credited Mormons for saving the Never Trump movement. And some polls showed Trump might lose Utah (the most Mormon-heavy state) — which hasn’t been purple since 1968." Steed's position is interesting - "What if prominent Mormon Republicans like Flake and Romney had gotten serious about their opposition to Trump?" In essence, Steed gives Flake credit for standing up to Trump and putting party loyalties aside, but wishes he would have done more.
HUH?
Here is a link to the real article with this actual headline title

Jeff Flake Could've Saved Us. He Didn't. | HuffPost

www.huffingtonpost.com/.../the-mormons-couldve-saved-us_us_5980766ce4b0cb4fc...

1 day ago - Prominent Mormon Republicans like Flake and Mitt Romney could have paved the way for Trump’s defeat. ... Flake is a Mormon (a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). ... And, of course, Romney and Flake could’ve persuaded many non-Mormon Republicans to stop Trump

 

More context

Why Jeff Flake's Conscience of a Conservative Rings Hollow | New ...

https://newrepublic.com/article/.../jeff-flakes-conscience-conservative-rings-hollow

1 day ago - Conscience of a Conservative was written in secret. Until late last week it was kept under wraps by Flake's publisher, Random House, because

 

'Conscience of a Conservative' ghostwriter denounces Jeff Flake for ...

www.washingtonexaminer.com/conscience-of-a-conservative...jeff...a.../2630343

20 hours ago - The son of the man who ghost-wrote the original Conscience of a Conservative for Barry Goldwater criticized Sen. Jeff. Flake, R-Ariz., for writing

AZ Senator Jeff Flake Can Stoop Pretty Low Pushing His New Book

Just to be fair and balanced, your MesaZona blogger subscribes to alt-left Breitbart News with yet another piece about Arizona Senator Jeff Flake who's captured in this image getting-down for looks like a selfie foto op
Unpopular Sen. Jeff Flake Attacks President Trump While Pushing His New Book
by Adam Shaw 31.07.2017
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ), one of the most unpopular senators in the country, launched an astonishing attack on President Trump Monday in an article for liberal Politico, where he also accuses the Republican Party of being “in denial” about the president — all while promoting his new book.
In the piece, “My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump,” Flake accuses Trump of offering “oversimplified answers to infinitely complex questions” but blames conservatives for his rise. . .
Flake hearkens back to a time when Democrats and Republicans were allegedly united by a bipartisan spirit and “felt an institutional loyalty that would frequently create bonds across party lines in defense of congressional prerogatives in a unified front against the White House, regardless of the president’s party.”

The piece, which is excerpted from Flake’s new book, Conscience of a Conservative (apparently deliberately borrowing from the title of a book by failed 1964 Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater), blames “the internet and our growing alienation from each other” as some of the reasons why that bipartisan spirit has been lost.
He then says the “Faustian bargain” that conservatives made by getting behind Trump is “not worth it.”It is unclear how well Flake’s new title will sell. Flake has a favorability rating of only 37 percent in Arizona, making him one of the most unpopular senators in the country, and his thin 140 page book will set you back a painful $27.
Adam Shaw is a Breitbart News politics reporter based in New York. Follow Adam on Twitter:  @AdamShawNY
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Quirky LDS Conservatives > Mixing-Up Politics + Real Estate?

Probably any image could have been selected to start off first for this post, but this for some unexplained reason caught the attention of your MesaZona blogger.
Notice who endorses who in this close contest for Arizona State Senate, District 25 Republican Primary in 2014.
Bob Worsley beat Ralph Heap by 1,646 votes out of 29,300 cast and went on to win the General Election by 70.5%.

Two years before, Worsley won election in the 2012 election for Arizona State Senate District 25 defeating former Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce in the Republican primary by 3,666 votes out of 30,734, winning in the general election with 66.6% of votes.
In the general election held on November 8, 2016, incumbent Bob Worsley ran unopposed in the Arizona State Senate District 25 general election winning with 100% of 69,914 votes to bolster the LDS control of the AZ State Legislature.
Apparently, he's now answering "a higher calling" to continue the mission to expand the legacy of The Mormon Pioneers for a New Zion - complete with plans for a Mesa version of Temple Square in Salt Lake City and a choir hall of sorts.

Still working on ways to finance that, the hive in Mesa politics is buzzing all the way from elected public office in the Arizona State Capitol to Mesa City Hall in fields of schemes for real estate development right here in downtown, where politician State Senator Bob Worsley, who first approached the city as un-named "private developer" and got the Mesa City Council to approve a Memorandum of Understanding, registering a new corporate LLC just six days before, for a proposed project atop a parking lot after quietly buying 29-35 W Main Street [and at least 8 other properties] in undisclosed deals to control the downtown real estate market when sellers agreed to a price of around $100/square feet. The new LLC named MACDevco, together with an associated entity called "Ranches of America' lists their 5,300+ sq ft home in the citrus groves on N Val Vista Drive here in northeast Mesa as the business address.

This image to the right of the proposed project, located behind public charter school Heritage Academy [in the dark spot at the center], across Drew Street, might be built on top of a 103-space parking lot with a footprint of less than an acre of land.
It is currently being used as free parking for customers and employees of six businesses fronting on the south side of Main Street between Drew Street and MacDonald.
Located within 300 feet of a school, it could be problematical to apply for a liquor license on the premises.
Plans also call for 'a food hall', a hotel with 75 rooms, and 75 "above-market rate" apartments . . .

Arizona State Senator Bob Worsley and Kent Lyons are partners in the development, described by an AZ Central reporter as "a subsidiary of Habitat Metro"
http://www.azcentral.com

Addicted? Here's Your Daily Dose of Mormonism

#1 Elder Holland withdraws Church News missionary story (Deseret News)
A very interesting development, and something I can't remember seeing in recent memory. Elder Jeffery R. Holland spoke on June 27 at the Mission President Seminar at the MTC in Provo, where he shared a story of a missionary rescue.

Obviously, many outlets ran with it - I'm pretty sure we did as well. However, Tad Walch of the Deseret News writes "Elder Holland withdrew it Monday and said in a statement that he had learned from the family that the story contained inaccuracies." Elder Holland issued a 3 paragraph statement giving context to the story and concluding it by stating "As a courtesy to me the family contacted my office, wanting me to be aware of the inaccurate parts of the story and offering their help in avoiding any perpetuation of those elements in the account I heard. I am deeply touched by their humility and courage in doing so, and as an equal courtesy to them, I am withdrawing the story completely and request that it not be shared further." I'm impressed. You don't see this often, and credit where credit is due to both the DesNews and Elder Holland for focusing on accuracy.
#2 BYU ranked for religious students, being sober, unfriendliness to LGBT community in Princeton Review (Herald Journal)
This should come as a surprise to no one, though I know some won't be happy with it.
The 2018 Princeton Review just released some of their "alternative" university rankings, and LDS-owned BYU held on to its Stone-Cold Sober ranking for the 20th consecutive year as the university that consumes the least alcohol by their student body. BYU was also #1 in the "Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch" rankings (which evaluates hard liquor), #1 in the "Got Milk" rankings, #8 in "Best-Run Colleges," #4 in "LGBTQ-Unfriendly," #8 in Conservative students, #2 in Most Religious Students, and #2 in the Top 25 Entrepreneurship Undergraduate colleges. So raise a glass of milk, or something

#3 Surprising survey reveals Americans are changing their minds about polygamy (Gallup)
Interesting news from Gallup today: "Polygamy, a practice that President James Garfield once said "offends the moral sense," is now seen by 17% of Americans as "morally acceptable," up from 14% in 2016 and the highest rate on record dating back to 2003." Credit to Gallup, who tried to answer the question as to why the increase has happened: "In short, there is little reason to believe that Americans are more likely to know or be polygamists now than at any other time in the past. But there is one way Americans may feel more familiar with or sympathetic to polygamy: television."
More > http://www.theculturalhallpodcast.com

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