Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Mesa City Council Meeting Monday 18 June 018

Mayor John Giles calls in a Boy Scout to give the Pledge of Allegiance after an Invocation, then the silver-throated head of the City of Mesa's newsroom gives his usual fast-and-quick reading of the entire Consent Agenda that's usually approved all at once in one action
Published on Jun 19, 2018
Views: 25 in a city of over 475,000 people
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Seymour Hersh: Media Today Must Cover Yemen & Trump Policy, Not Get Dist...

Sy is ecstatic that people are realizing what's going on - the more we focus we get our teeth into something ...
Published on Jun 20, 2018
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Fractured Fairy Tales -- Apperances Often Are Deceiving

Yes they are .... for sure!
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Something More Than Coffee Brewing Here In Mesa For Greg Stanton

The pleasure of your company is invited for maybe something more than coffee at the The Nile Coffee Shop on the front side of the World-Famous Nile Theater here in Mesa on Main Street in support of Greg Stanton - former Mayor of Phoenix and now candidate for Congress in Arizona's 9th District. 
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No Disclaimer In This AZ Big Media Propoganda Piece?

If readers of the blog site don't know it by now, there's something about Mesa that 'ruffles my feathers' . . .Yes it's that VISION THING and what U don't know. 
BIG HOOPLA HYPE that could include someone else, other than Mesa Mormon Republican and AZ State Senator Bob Worsley, with possible and undisclosed conflicts of interest in the intersection of finance and law, government, politics, the Arizona Board of Regents, deals, entitlements, and private fortunes in  real estate development here in the City of Mesa and inside the Old Donut-Hole . . .
It's a story that needs to be told time-and-time again until people get a clue.
Let's give it a little more exposure taking a swoop into the darkside with just a few more clues to the intersection of it all:
Here's the most recent mainstream media-dump from AZBM and pretty pictures too:  Let's color it brown and bold and set-the-stage for more manipulation of what passes as news, adding once more main character tied to Mesa's past: 
Technology, transit and a solid vision brings Mesa’s rebirth
"Very few people can match Karrin Taylor Robson’s connection to downtown Mesa. 
Young Karrin Kunasek grew up on 2nd Avenue and celebrated her only birthday party as a child at Pioneer Park. Her brother Andy was born at Southside Hospital, which is now home to Benedictine University’s Mesa campus. . ."  Source: AZ BigMedia 17 hours ago
Yup, that's off to a good start where Karrin grew up that includes the recent high-price $12M Re-do of Pioneer Park.

John Graham, CEO Sunbelt Holdings, on-stage at the Brookings Institute
"The Rise of Mesa's Innovation District' in February 2018 @ MAC
". . .Taylor Robson remembers rushing around downtown Mesa as a girl of 11 or 12, making deliveries for one of her father’s pharmacies. That particular pharmacy, Lewis Drug, was located where the Mesa Arts Center, the crowning jewel of downtown Mesa, now stands. . . "  Huh? 'crowning jewel' ???
Ooooh that's nice script using two surnames connected with more Mesa history, but let's update it with Taylor Robson's appearing far right on the stage at the Mesa Art Center's Ikeda Theater in February 2018 for the $40,000 forum presented by The Brookings Institution "Rise of Mesa's Innovation District" where she was introduced as a member of the GPEC. Not revealed at that time was her role as a principal in THE GRID PROJECT also involving the person next to her Jenny Poons, whose company Co+Hoots is the anchor of the privately-financed project by developer Tony Wall on a city-owned parking garage.
> Here's investor Tony Wall, appearing next to former Mesa city manager Mike Hutchinson now Vice-President of The East Valley Partnership at far right, during a press conference announcement on May 31, 2018 by City Creek Preserve - a for-profit arm of the LDS Church - for the Massive Mormon Temple Makeover Plans that could transform downtown Mesa.
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Context first for this new key character  
Six years ago - it's another one of those East Valley Tribune's could be qualifier action-verbs
Mesa native’s influence key to city’s future

Source: AZ BigMedia 17 hours ago
"This could be a Mesa girl does good story.
But it’s really a story about how good it is for Mesa that a Mesa girl did good. Karrin Kunasek Taylor was born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School and received her law degree from Arizona State University. Her eyes lit up as she talked about growing up in Mesa where her father, veteran lawmaker and former Arizona Senate President Carl Kunasek, owned three drug stores*
Karrin Kunasek Taylor was born and reared in Mesa. She graduated from Mountain View High School . . .
"Mesa is moving in the right direction and I’m proud to be a part of that.Indeed. There is no denying her role in Mesa’s future and present.
Taylor is executive vice president and chief entitlements officer for DMB Associates.
Blogger Note:
She previously was a principal at the law firm Biskind, Hunt & Taylor, PLC.
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“Today, the stars are all aligning at a time when the Valley has regained our stride as a region and Mesa, if you ask most real estate groups where the next place that will be popping is, most will tell you it’s Mesa.” 
SEE MORE OF THIS SOLID VISION and AZ Big Media's story of Mesa's Re-birth >here
_________________________________________________________________________DMB is a Scottsdale-based developer that six years ago bought five square miles - 3,200 acres that the City of Mesa purchased with taxpayer-money - of what had once been the General Motors Proving Grounds.
On it is staked much of Mesa’s future as well as DMB’s success.
The company on its website predicts that the area it has named Eastmark will become “the future heart and hub of the East Valley" . . .
Taylor’s job has been to work with government and others who have a stake in the future of that 3,200 acres in southeast Mesa.
She said her task has been to manage “a huge zoning case.”
But it has become much more than that and that’s why I first crossed paths with Taylor while working not on a column about Eastmark but about rumblings of discontent over Arizona’s seeming laissez-faire approach to new aerospace opportunities.
“Call Karrin Taylor,” I was told when I asked how I could learn more about a meeting held in Mesa Mayor Scott Smith’s office on Jan. 4. . .
What she does is her passion. It’s out of her love for Arizona, Mesa and a sense of civic responsibility,” Smith continued, making note of her father’s many years in the legislature and with the Arizona Corporation Commission.
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* Note from the contributing writer: "Reader Corrine Brooks called to tell me that I erred in reporting that Carl Kunasek owned Everybody's Drugs in downtown Mesa,  While he owned other drugstores, Corrine said she and her husband, Al, bought Everybody's Drugs in 1966. 
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East Valley Trib 21 March 2012 
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Ducey fills Greg Patterson's ABOR seat with new regent
Phoenix Business Journal-Jun 20, 2017
Doug Ducey has selected Karrin Taylor Robson as a regent for the Arizona ... Taylor Robson is the founder and president of Arizona Strategies, a land-use ...
". . . Taylor Robson is the founder and president of Arizona Strategies, a land-use strategy and real estate development company. Before forming Arizona Strategies, she was executive vice president of DMB Associates Inc., a Scottsdale master-planned community developer, where she was responsible for ongoing land use entitlement matters.
In prepared comments, Ducey said Taylor Robson brings a wealth of experience in economic development. . . "
New name emerges in McCain replacement speculation
Arizona Capitol Times-May 7, 2018
Several sources told our reporter that Karrin Taylor Robson is rumored to be a leading contender for appointment to McCain's seat. To read more on this item ...
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Double-Entendre: Dinosaurs Seen Here In Mesa

Except for Tom Wilson, the Director of The Arizona Museum of Natural History (2nd from the right), nothing seems natural about this posed photo opp used by the City of Mesa's Newsroom in a press release from early May. It's the most recent visible transformation in creating a new façade on the sidewalk-scapes in The Old Donut-Hole designed to draw new visitors to the museum.
At the unveiling - what we see are four city officials wearing official City-issued navy blue polo shirts: that's City Manager Chris Brady at far left, then Mayor John Giles, District 4 Mesa City Councilmember Chris Glover and District 5 Mesa City Councilmember David Luna.
All getting some "face-time" with a prehistoric beast in a new $380K  instantly- iconic feature where City Hall was originally located.
Missing in the real life-size fabricated plastic replica of a female Acrocanthosaurus bursting from the exterior of the AZMNH is Marc Garcia, President and CEO of Mesa's office of tourism VisitMesa.com , whose motto and tagline can be seen to the left in a panoramic vision of the open expanse for a fast-growing city into the exurbs. He's been busy pushing for a new sports complex that was dead-on-arrival two years ago, revived on a new financing plan with a refreshed brand Mesa Plays.



Perhaps it's a good and timely thing that Tom Wilson's Free The Dinosaur project wants to attract some new visitors downtown - with the closing of the LDS Temple in May 2018 for two years, millions of people will have no reason to visit downtown for the Easter and Christmas Festival of Lights staged on the Church's ground. 
AzMNH has raised the $380,000 needed to complete the Free the Dinosaur project. But more donations are needed to maintain the dinosaur façade.
Visit azmnh.org and click on the blue “Donate Now” button.
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“The Arizona Museum of Natural History has played an important role in downtown Mesa for decades. It deserves an iconic feature that cements the museum’s status as a landmark for our city, and I think this dinosaur is the perfect reflection of that, . . ." 
- - District 4 council member Chris Glover.
“Students from across the state come to the Arizona Museum of Natural History in downtown Mesa to explore the past, . .  The new dinosaur bursting from the building is a great photo op for our visitors to commemorate their time here. I’m sure she’ll be a regular on social media feeds.”
- - Mayor John Giles
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From ProPublica: Yes We Do Have An Orchestra

Escucha a los niños que acaban de ser separados de sus padres en la frontera
"ProPublica ha obtenido una grabación en audio del interior de una instalación de la Patrulla Fronteriza en el que se escucha a los niños llorar mientras un agente bromea: “Aquí tenemos una orquesta”.
par Ginger Thompson
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