Saturday, December 14, 2019

Paul Petersen fights to get assessor job back but didn't show up for his...

Only 149 views on YouTube ...and note how few members of the public are there.
David Petersen, his father, was there [former State Treasurer who was booted out of office] + RUSSELL PEARCE

Ornstein: McConnell's Admission ‘Violation Of Oath He Will Take As A Jur...

Bureau of Economic Analysis Releases First Ever By=County GDP 2001-2018

Local Area Gross Domestic Product, 2018First Official Release of Gross Domestic Product by County, 2001-2018

Percent Change in Real GDP by County, 2018

Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,375 counties, decreased in 717, and was unchanged in 21 in 2018, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).

The percentage change in real GDP ranged from 86.5 percent in Jackson County, WV, to -44.0 percent in Grant County, ND.

In 2020, data for counties and metropolitan areas will be contained in a news release called Gross Domestic Product by County and Metropolitan Area.

The full text of the release on BEA's website can be found at: www.bea.gov/news/2019/local-area-gross-domestic-product-2018

Highlights

Large Counties: 141 counties with populations greater than 500,000 in 2018

Real GDP increased in 136 and decreased in 5.
GDP ranged from $11.2 billion in Pasco County, FL, to $710.9 billion dollars in Los Angeles County, CA.
Santa Clara County, CA, (10.2 percent) was the fastest growing large county. The information industry was the leading contributor to the county's growth.
Kern County, CA, (-0.7 percent) had the largest percentage decrease in GDP. The mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry (primarily oil and gas extraction) was the leading contributor to the decrease.

Medium Counties: 464 counties with populations between 100,000 and 500,000 in 2018

Real GDP increased in 433, decreased in 30, and was unchanged in 1.
GDP ranged from $2.0 billion in Saline County, AR, to $52.6 billion dollars in Morris County, NJ.
Canadian County, OK, (21.0 percent) was the fastest growing medium county. The mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry (primarily oil and gas extraction and support activities) was the leading contributor to the county's growth.
San Juan County, NM, (-6.1 percent) had the largest percentage decrease in GDP. The mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industry (primarily non-oil and gas mineral extraction) was the leading contributor to the decrease.

BEA News: Local Area Gross Domestic Product, 2018

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued the following news release 2 days ago

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors Meetings [2] Update

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors

Special - 12/16/2019 9:30 AM

12/13/2019 08:22 AM MST

Special Meetings are scheduled as needed for time sensitive action items and /or other meetings where a quorum of the Board may be participating in an event or meeting.

Special Public Notice - 12/16/2019 9:30 AM

12/13/2019 08:21 AM MST

Special Public Notice

PUBLIC NOTICE

(Prepared in compliance with A.R.S. §38-431.01, 38-431.02 and 38-431.03(A))

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the general public that the Board of Supervisors of Maricopa County, Arizona; the Board of Supervisors sitting as the Board of Deposit; and the Board of Directors of the Special Districts listed above will hold a meeting as follows:

Date	Time	Type	Location
Monday December 16, 2019	9:30 AM	Special & Executive	Sullivan Conference Room 301 W. Jefferson, 10th Floor Phoenix, AZ 85003

Agendas are available at least 24 hours prior to each of the above scheduled meetings in the Office of the Clerk of the Board, 301 W. Jefferson, Tenth Floor, Phoenix, Arizona, Monday through Friday, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. and open meeting agendas are available via the internet at http://www.maricopa.gov/324/Board-of-Supervisors-Meeting-Information. For questions, please call 602-506-3766.

One or more members may attend telephonically. Members attending telephonically will be announced at the meeting.

Executive Sessions are always preceded by an open, public meeting as per A.R.S. §38-431.03, and are held in compliance with one or more of the following statute(s):

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(1) - Personnel matters

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(2) - Records exempt by law from public inspection

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(3) - Legal advice

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(4) - Litigation; contract negotiations; settlement discussions

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(5) - Personnel matters dealing with employee organizations

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(6) - International and interstate negotiations

A.R.S. §38-431.03.(A)(7) – Purchase, sale or lease of real property

Debra Schaffer, Clerk of Board

Dated: December 13, 2019

PUBLIC NOTICE 30-Day Comment Period > PROPOSED RENEWAL Permit To Discharge Pollutants To Public Waters

Public Notice | 30-Day Comment Period for Proposed AZPDES Permit Renewal for City of Mesa Water Resources

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Water Quality Division welcomes comments on the proposed renewal of Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (AZPDES) permit (AZ0025151) coverage to City of Mesa Water Resources located in Maricopa County.

View Public Notice/Related Documents >

Public Notice No. 19-35

Published in: Arizona Business Gazette on Dec. 12, 2019

AZPDES Permit No. AZ0025151

ADEQ proposes to issue an Arizona Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (AZPDES) renewal permit to discharge pollutants to Waters of the United States to the following applicant, subject to certain effluent limitations and special conditions:

Permittee

City of Mesa Water Resources
6308 East Baseline Road
Mesa, AZ. 85206

Facility Information

City of Mesa Water Resources applied for a renewal AZPDES permit for the proposed discharge of up to 8 million gallons per day (mgd) of treated domestic wastewater from the Southeast Water Reclamation Plant to the East Maricopa Floodway, tributary to the Gila River (From Brown and Greenfield Roads to the Gila River Indian Reservation Boundary) in the Middle Gila River Basin in Township 1 S, Range 6 E, Section 12, in Maricopa County, Arizona. The Southeast Water Reclamation Plant is a publicly owned treatment works that receives domestic wastewater from residential, commercial, and industrial sources in Mesa. Residual solids from the SEWRP are conveyed via pipeline to the Greenfield Water Reclamation Plant or the Sub Regional Operating Group’s 91st Avenue Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) for disposal.

Review Documents

Original Published Public Notice | View/Print >
Draft Permit | View >
Draft Fact Sheet | View >

You may also review the above documentation in person at the ADEQ Record Center | Learn How >

Public Comment Period

Dates: Dec. 12, 2019 – Jan. 11, 2020

Comments may be submitted as follows:
By Email | Send Email >
By Mail (Must be postmarked or received by Jan. 11, 2020):

ADEQ
Jessica Kohls
Water Quality Division
1110 W. Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 8500

"For God & Country" > Former Navy Seal and Staunch Trump Ally Flubs Up Filing-for-Office In The Wrong Texas Congressional District

LOL. The same Trump GOP strategy to recruit former military minority candidates that gave us unfit-to-hold-office now-Senator Martha McSally here in Arizona boomeranged big time in Texas when Floyd McClendon showed up in the wrong district!
Business Insider first broke the story, followed by Mash Viral
. . . with the usual Repub rhetoric + talking-points

Navy SEAL, who ran for Congress, launched his campaign in the wrong district
"In a November statement, McLendon described himself as "the one candidate who will fight for the president's America First agenda, who is unmistakably conservative, and who is running a grassroots-fueled campaign to take this seat back from a Pelosi Democrat."
"The radical democrats are trying to impeach President Trump based off of second-hand information from an anonymous source," McLendon said in a Facebook post in October about the impeachment inquiry led by House Democrats.
"My opponent, Colin Allred, has teamed up with Adam Schiff to try and further this charade."

The congressional seat is held by Democratic Rep. Colin Allred, a retired football player for the Tennessee Titans who was an official in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration.
Allred, a freshman Democrat, unseated Republican Rep. Pete Sessions last year in the competitive district.

Update To Earlier Post > Palantir Snags New U.S.Defense Department Contract

Yesterday the Defense Department announced one more multi-million dollar with Palantir .
The initial $110 million contract is part of a four-year, $440 million program called Vantage, formerly known as Army Leader Dashboard.
The deal promises to significantly deepen the Silicon Valley-based analytics company’s ties to the Pentagon. It is the second time in the past year that Palantir has won a front seat on a defense program of record, which has a dedicated line of funding from Congress. In March, it became the primary contractor for a separate Army program called Distributed Common Ground System, which is focused on battlefield intelligence.
Palantir Technologies is a private American software company that specializes in big data analytics. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, it was founded by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp.
> Over time, it expanded throughout the commercial business world while building a data analytics platform called Foundry, which organizations of all types use to analyze their own data.
> The Vantage contract was awarded under a unique contract specification called Other Transaction Authority, which allows defense agencies to work with contractors to develop prototypes on an iterative basis. Such an approach allows them to sidestep the Federal Acquisition Regulation, a 2,010-page document largely written with giant military hardware purchases in mind.
Source: WaPo
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