Looks like you can tell what foamed to the top for The Governor's Award in this year's version of the Arizona Forward's EEA held last week on October 6,2018. Take a look at the image - that type of beer is usually called an IPA (Indian Pale Ale) ....note there's no "Indian" Instead take a close look at the glass - it's marked Goldwater, a nice golden-brown when it's brewed from human wastewater, that of course has been 'purified'. At 5.7% that packs a lot of alcohol content! ________________________________________________________________________
Congratulations again to the Environmental Excellence Awards winners! If you'd like to see a complete list, have a look at the press release on their website. #sustainability#AZFAwards2018http://bit.ly/2PmqBpD
_____________________________________________________________________________ Believe it - or not - The City of Mesa managed to snag two mentions in the Parks & Trail awards section ... a runner-up mention for the $12,000,000 in taxpayer money spent for Pioneer Park and a mention for 4-mile bike trail segment that fills in a gap in a program started first in Phoenix.
Mesa Mayor Giles wants you to hear about the city's EEA awards and mentions when he badgered Beth Huntig, head of the city's Engineering Department, to "brag about" and "brag about it just a little" at the Thu 11 October Mesa City Council Study Session. Giles plans to stage an award ceremony at the Monday Oct 15th City Council Meeting at 5:45 pm
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In a newly created category it was former Phoenix mayor who got one of the awards for an individual
The City of Chandler was recently honored with an Award of Distinction at the Arizona Forward Environmental Excellence Awards. 👏👏
Chandler earned the award in the Sustainable Communities category for the Downtown Chandler project that extended Dakota Street, rebuilt Commonwealth Avenue and rehabilitated a historic Salt River Project canal.
Arizona Forward honored the project for its effort to effectively steward water resources and engage the public in sustainability efforts.
“This is a great honor, there were so many outstanding projects being recognized,” said RWRD... Deputy Director Jeff Prevatt, who led the project. “Our project will help ensure long-term water sustainability for future Arizonans and has really helped promote water reuse discussions nationwide.”
A MAP OF EVERY BUILDING IN AMERICA (See > Nation of Suburbs: Mesa, AZ]
By TIM WALLACE, DEREK WATKINS and JOHN SCHWARTZ
"Most of the time, The New York Times asks you to read something. Today we are inviting you, simply, to look.
On this page you will find maps showing almost every building in the United States.
Why did we make such a thing?
We did it as an opportunity for you to connect with the country’s cities and explore them in detail.
To find the familiar, and to discover the unfamiliar.
So … look.
HISTORY MADE APPARENT:
The nation’s expansion shows itself: The clustered development of the original colonies flowed west, with scattered cities and towns linked, like beads on a string, by rivers, highways and railroads.
These images are drawn froma huge database that Microsoft released to the publicthis year. The company’s computer engineers trained a neural network to analyze satellite imagery and then to trace the shapes of buildings across the country. Such information has been available before in some places, but this is the first comprehensive database covering the entire United States.
In some cases, we have augmented the data with information from state and local governments that have collected their own.
We found fascinating patterns in the arrangements of buildings. Traditional road maps highlight streets and highways; here they show up as a linear absence.
Where buildings are clustered together, in downtowns, the image is darker, dense. As suburbs stretch out with their larger lawns and malls, the map grows lighter. Your eye can follow the ways that development conforms to landscape features like water and slopes.
You can read history in the transition from curving, paved-over cow paths in old downtowns to suburban sprawl You can detect signals of wealth and poverty, sometimes almost next door to each other. It all reveals what Andy Woodruff, a cartographer, calls “the sometimes aesthetically pleasing patterns of the built environment.”
These images don’t just reveal cityscapes; they reveal ourselves.
Mesa, Ariz. America’s suburban streets twist and flow, with their wild involutions and curving cul-de-sacs. Mesa’s suburbs are especially imaginative, particularly from above. The feeling of meandering through a place whose layout is designed to thwart speed and comprehension is familiar to anyone who, in the days before GPS, needed to pick up a friend or deliver a pizza in an unfamiliar neighborhood.
Barbara Berasi, Larry Buchanan, Guilbert Gates, Baden Copeland, Monica Davey, Conor Dougherty, Manny Fernandez, Adam Nagourney and Julie Shaver contributed to producing this project. Data sources: Building footprints from Microsoft. Washington, D.C. building footprints from the city. Note: In some cases, the building shapes generated by Microsoft's automated process do not match the existing building footprints exactly. We manually corrected as many of these mistakes as we found, or, where available, replaced the shapes using more precise local data sets.
_______________________________________________________________________________ In the interest of being fair-and-balanced there are some other opinions about these six questions - you just cannot accept things at 'face-value' produced by the city. We really do not need more of an increasing burden - there are reasons backed up by a thoughtful analysis of financial data to provide you with more information to make an informed choice when you vote:
This year on our ballots in Mesa we will be asked to consider half a billion dollars of new debt.
Local control of the budget vs. spending caps from the state (Question 1)
Raising the sales tax 14% (Question 2)
$85 million dollars to build a police/fire joint station in northeast Mesa (Question 3)
$111 million dollars for parks and culture. Including ASU park downtown, a permanent ice skating rink, and massive soccer fields in northeast Mesa. (Question 4)
Modifying the City Charter to allow us to spend $100 million on a sports complex in northeast Mesa. (Question 5)
Increase the lodging tax by 20% (Question 6)
"I’m sure that not all of my positions will align with your views and that’s ok. I only wish to present the facts to those who are looking for them in the abyss of data. I should also note the opinions I express are my own. My goals are simple, they are to provide transparency to the finances of our city for the purpose of protecting the assets that belong to the residents before they are entirely depleted due to a massive spending spree with no plan to pay for anything. It’s time to get our spending under control. In addition, my hope is that we can start creating policies that favor the middle class and the poor in our community. This requires us to live within our means and get back to providing core municipal services to our residents. It is important to note that financial crisis situations do not occur overnight. They take years to evolve usually with those at the helm ignorant in what it is they’re creating. READ MORE > click here _________________________________________________________________________ On this blog: More than you probably want to know about Home Rule https://mesazona.blogspot.com/2018/05/explaining-increases-hikes-in-fees.html
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Half-A-Billion Bucks In More Debt? Mesa Voters Get The Final Say On Massive Bond & Tax Proposals > VOTE NO!
Mesa Voters Get The Final Say On Massive Bond & Tax Proposals > VOTE NO!
That's right > Say NO across-the-board when you vote. The combined GIGANTIC size - almost half a billion dollars - of the bond debt requests and the sheer number of money-related ballot questions on this November 6 General Election are up to voters here in Mesa to make the final say. There's a lot more at stake on the State level with other Proposals to deal with that will affect and impact our futures, but let's keep it hyper-local here in this post right now. Keep in mind that except for the separate massive unjustified $300M - that is $300,000,000 - budget OVERRIDE proposal for a failing Mesa public education system, other issues have been passed by the Mesa City Council to get voted on.
They tried to sting us all two years ago with that privately financed bogus $500,000 ASU public relations campaign that no one got tricked by - it blew up in their faces when voters simply said NO. Played for fools once...Never again! This time around they've had two years to 're-package' their underhanded bag-of-tricks into a Grab-Bag-of-Goodies they hope can trick everyone all over again. How? By slow-jamming (and at the same time fast-tracking) a number of proposals through the Mesa City Council.
This year it was not unanimous - it was contentious
https://democracynow.org - In his new book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale professor Jason Stanley warns about the dangers of normalizing fascist politics, writing, “What normalization does is transform the morally extraordinary into the ordinary. It makes us able to tolerate what was once intolerable by making it seem as if this is the way things have always been.” We speak with Jason Stanley in New York. Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs weekdays on nearly 1,400 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream 8-9AM ET: https://democracynow.org
This is not trivial - Pie is deadly serious in this broadcast - He's not making this stuff up. Why are the police or for that matter anyone else, getting involved over people's choice of words and trolling/tracking Twitter posts? . . . it's free speech when we live in a democracy
Published on Oct 12, 2018
Views: 5,140 [to upload time 15 minutes after this got posted online.
If you want the Police to arrest people for their choice of words then you want to live in a police state. For tickets to see Jonathan Pie LIVE:USA go to jonathanpie.com/live
That's right especially now when Main Street is once again undergoing another one of the endless 'make'-overs' and 'transformations' promising 're-vitalization' that's vibrant and exciting. Bill Wahl, the unassuming third-generation owner of Mesa Typewriter Exchange on South Macdonald Street, has heard all that before time-and-time again. He has no reason to change his business after it has been here for nearly 70 years He's not trying to fix-up his façade or preserve history - he is just doing what he knows and what he likes to do, not trying to preserve history, not making a big deal about that or making a lot of money. The word entrepreneur is simply not in his vocabulary. Bill learned his skills on-the-job from his father. He has worked for the better part of 40 years in the same location. He likes repairing typewriters. He knows his customers and how to keep the shop up and running. When your MesaZona blogger stopped by the other day to say what a nice article about the shop appeared in last Sunday's hardcopy edition of the East Valley Tribune, he said thanks for being one of the few people who reads those things - so here's that story for YOU TO START READING about one of downtown's small wonders: In an age of laptops and iPads, typewriters keep Mesa shop busy
By Brent Ruffner, Tribune Contributor Updated
(In the photo above taken from Brent Ruffner's report , Bill Wahl stands in front the typewriter repair shop in Mesa that he and his father worked in together since he was a young man. Despite the fact that the typewriter is seldom used in business, enough people hold on to their personal machines that Wahl never runs out of customers.
Brent Ruffner/Tribune) Contributor _________________________________________________________________________________"Bill Wahl and his family have been a part of Mesa’s history for three generations. Now, he is helping preserve that history – and a bit of the past that computers have nearly wiped off the map – typewriters.Wahl, 61, can still remember his grandfather taking him to the lunch counter at Everybody’s Drug Store, a popular Mesa spot, to get his regular hamburger. . . Wahl said he is “flooded” with business from an influx of people who want their old machines given new life. . .
Your MesaZona blogger first had the pleasure of meeting Bill Wahl back in 2014 and published a post about Mesa Typewriter Exchange on May 14, 2015 after living in the neighborhood for about six months and starting to publish this blog. If he was busy with customers I would just keep on walking-by and wave hello. It is definitely a pleasant step-back in time to walk into the shop to see decades of typewriters on display or ready-to-get picked by customers after getting repaired. Bill is usually in the back sitting at his work desk as you can see in the image to the left, or working and talking to customers on the phone at the same time. We chat mostly about downtown Mesa, what's here now and what's not here any more in the neighborhood. Nostalgia? . . . maybe.
" . . A few steps away under the veranda sidewalk shade structures in place since the 1980's you can find the locations on the west side of the street for more than 60 years of two of the oldest "Mom & Pop" or just "Pop" service establishments in downtown Mesa: Mesa Typewriter Exchange with 3rd-generation family owner Bill Wahl and Lamb's Shoe Repair where a new owner took over the business from his previous employer. When asked how business is going, both owners said "Business is booming" . . .good to knowthese hands-on owners in skilled manual trades have been keeping customers happy and coming back for so many years when a lot of storefronts and commercial properties on Main Street have stood vacant for far too long. Your blogger snapped Bill in the middle of taking a call from a customer from his office space at the back of the vintage typewriter displays. He's a busy guy but has taken the time on a number of days to chat about the business development of downtown and to exchange views about friendly politics.
Your MesaZona blogger wants to start off by going back to an opinion piece from the East Valley Tribune written by Mark J. Scarp on October 27, 2012 about Mesa: " . . . downtowns are more than just a collection of a few big-name projects. The large landmarks are the catalyst for an equally vital component to a strong downtown: small business. This includes places to eat, to be entertained, to buy interesting products and services not usually found in a shopping mall."
_______________________________________________________________________________ During the last few years there have been other reports about the 3-generation business:
Bring your notebook, your laptop, your typewriter, or even try one of the few available ones in the store provided by Mesa Typewriter Exchange. October writing ...
Owner Bill Wahl is the third generation of his family to operate the store. .... Plus, for someone in New York to send a typewriter to Arizona for work doesn't make ...
He is the owner and key operator of Mesa Typewriter Exchange, a company that since 1949 has sold, rented and repaired older typewriters. Contact is 30 S.
Because of the Mesa Typewriter Exchange and the general interest in mid-century items in Phoenix, Adney says, type-ins have grown in popularity since 2011, ...
Mesa Merchant Police closes doors after nearly 90 years ... Wilford, who earned the nickname “Whizzer,” would go on to become a football legend at Arizona State ... It has been a bit of an adjustment for Bill Wahl, owner of Mesa Typewriter ...
The little shop on MacDonald in Mesa has been serving the writers and ... In the back room of the Mesa Typewriter Exchange, owner Bill Wahl says he has a ...
