The 2016 Study ranks reading habits and resources The top 10 cities in the new survey: 1. Washington, D.C. 2. Seattle 3. Minneapolis 4. Atlanta 5. San Francisco 6. Pittsburgh 7. Portland, Ore. 8. Cincinnati 9. St. Paul, Minn. 10. Boston
This is the 13th year the study has been conducted by Jack Miller, president emeritus of Central Connecticut State University in New Britain, Conn. It measures citizens‘ use of literacy through criteria including local bookstores, educational levels, Internet and library resources, and newspaper circulation. based on data gathered in 2016.
Reading is one of the most basic skills fundamental to lifelong learning. Failure to achieve basic grade-level proficiencies starts early here in Mesa - after the 3rd grade.
So where does the City of Mesa rank out of the 82 largest cities in the entire nation?
Take a look - here's the rest of the list > Scroll down
Tucson #53, Chandler #63, Phoenix #65 . . . and then you find Mesa - fastest growing but is it smart growth?
The rest of the list: 11. Denver 12. St. Louis, MO 13. Raleigh, NC 14. Nashville-Davidson, TN 15. Durham, NC 16. Kansas City, MO 17. Austin, TX 18. Honolulu 19. Lexington-Fayette, KY 20. Colorado Springs, CO 21. Cleveland 22. Chicago 23. Columbus, OH 24. Lincoln, NE 25.5 New Orleans 25.5. Tulsa, OK 27. Orlando, FL 28. New York City 29. Indianapolis, IN 30. Oakland, CA 31. Baltimore 32. San Diego 33.5. Omaha, NE 33.5 Plano, TX 35. Philadelphia 36. Irvine, CA 37. St. Petersburg, FL 38. Greensboro, NC 39. Sacramento, CA 40. Louisville-Jefferson Co.,KY 41. Oklahoma City, OK 42. Dallas 43. Virginia Beach, VA 44. Charlotte, NC 45.5. Albuquerque, NM 45.5. Buffalo, NY 47. Milwaukee 48. Newark, NJ 49. Fort Wayne, IN 50. Miami 51. Tampa 52. San Jose, CA 53. Tucson, AZ 54. Anchorage, AK 55. Jacksonville, FL 56. Toledo, OH 57. Detroit 58. Las Vegas 59. Santa Ana, CA 60. Jersey City, NJ 61. Wichita, KS 62. Aurora, CO 63. Chandler, AZ 64. Fort Worth, TX 65. Phoenix, AZ 66.5. Arlington, TX 66.5. Memphis 68. Los Angeles 69. Riverside, CA 70. Houston, TX 71. Henderson, NV 72. Long Beach, CA 73. Mesa, AZ 74. Chula Vista, CA 75. Fresno, CA 76. San Antonio, TX 77. Corpus Christi, TX 78. Anaheim, CA 79. Stockton, CA 80. El Paso, TX 81. Bakersfield, CA 82. Laredo, TX
Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman today proudly announced five Arizona schools have been recognized as National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education (US ED).
The five schools receiving this honor are
Alhambra Traditional School in Phoenix,
Arizona College Prep Erie Campus in Chandler,
Ash Fork Elementary School in Ash Fork,
Kyrene de la Sierra Elementary School in Phoenix
Montessori Education Centre Charter School in Mesa.
These schools are among the 312 public and 50 non-public schools that will be recognized at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C. on November 14-15
Here's Jordan Rose - a feature in one of today's posts that covers a lot of territory all about real estate development. In particular it's about one pending project in Southeast Mesa named Hawes Crossing. If you're wondering what Jordan Rose does, she tells you herself in less-than-a-minute is a streaming video uploaded to YouTube last year . . . "she [and The Rose Law Group] gets governments to do of not to do something. . ." Vague enough. . .QUESTION: What's that something? And how does her law group get all the goodie$ delivered? Here's just the most recent media report by Jim Walsh that tells you what that "something" is all about:
"After months of public meetings, the massive Hawes Crossing development is heading toward a vote by the Mesa City Council in January, with only one member opposing it and millions of dollars riding on the decision. . . "
"If the zoning changes requested by attorney Jordan Rose are approved, that vote would unlock the potential for development of more than 1,100 acres in an aircraft overflight area two miles from Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport.
It also will enable six dairy farmers to sell their 535 acres and relocate to a more pastoral setting.
While the dairy farms have come to symbolize Hawes Crossing, which plans to use a white and silver dairy-oriented theme, the Arizona Land Department stands to benefit just as much if not more so.
Hawes Crossing includes 595 state-owned acres that likely would be sold in a lucrative auction if the council approves the zoning.
“There’s a lot of money on the table,’’ Rose said – not only for the dairymen and the state but also for Mesa through taxes and other revenues like development fees.
“I think it was monumentally important that the staff show that the vast majority (of Hawes Crossing) is in the county,’’ Rose said.
“It’s important to get control over that much property so you get revenue out of it. The revenues are going to come to the city or the county. . . ’’
For sure like Shakespeare wrote "A rose is a rose is a rose" by any other name would smell as sweet Ah, Inhale that please. When it comes to The East Valley and the five cities and towns in it - and bordering counties all the way south to Casa Grande and Tucson - there's always a need for attorneys (transactional, tax law and zoning) and law groups to represent all the players on-and-off the stage, other than the public: major industry interests like Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, Government and Politics. Enter > The Rose Law Group
The final act in the development process - that involves influencing public opinion and their input - is to get city councils to approve everything. That's where what gets reported in mainstream media is an important thing to try to influence, to control and to manipulate the Mesa City Council to produce the desired outcomes. Of course there's also something called 'alternative media" - and investigative reporters who are more independent and objective (and not beholden to "special interests" who represent THE PUBLIC RIGHT-TO-KNOW. _________________________________________________________________________
WHO IS JORDAN ROSE? Let her tell you herself >
She says personally she gets governments to do or not to do something
"Rose Law Group pc is a full-service real estate and business law firm practicing in land use, zoning, renewable energy, government relations and lobbying, administrative law, family law, transactional real estate, employment law, water law, Native American relations, ADA compliance, infrastructure finance, special districts taxation, business formation/corporation transactions, business litigation, school law, cyber-defamation, cyber-privacy, drone law, cannabis law, hemp law, intellectual property, estate planning, asset protection, private litigation, class actions and DUI’s.
Our staff of attorneys, planners and construction project managers is unique in the state.
Our planning department focuses on helping clients process plans and applications through municipal, county and state regulatory agencies, and we have the skills to coordinate with your consultant team, conduct plan checks and catch errors, saving you time and money... "
Definitely worth another look so just don't blow this off. Gateway Strategic Area w a goal of over 100,000 jobs Hawes Crossing is 1/3 of the area Views: 87 at time of upload to this blog on Sunday Nov 17, 2019
Homebuilder’s eye state land for growth By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal
No group may have a more intimate view of the struggle to develop homes and businesses using Arizona-owned land than dairy farmer Jim Boyle Jr. and his cows.
Boyle is among a group of dairy farmers in Mesa working to transform their property into a 1,200-acre master-planned community — a process that’s taking years to accomplish.
The path isn’t getting easier. Of the 1,200 acres the farmers plan for the development, about half are state land, said Jordan Rose, zoning attorney with Rose Law Group, who is working with Boyle and the other dairy farmers to get their property and the adjacent state land rezoned. READ ON:
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Hawes Crossing
By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune
Mesa officials have sketched out four main areas of activity for the sprawling southeastern part of the city.
City of Mesa / East Valley Tribune
"An east Mesa city councilman last week criticized a consultant’s report on the future of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, arguing it“would be a recipe for disaster’’ to allow housing in the flight path along Elliot Road.
Councilman Kevin Thompson’s comments came after a consultant outlined the city’s Inner Loop Master Plan, which covers the 3,100 acres closest to the airport. . ."
Please keep in mind both are PUBLIC HEARINGS. You are encouraged to first get informed, and then [if you haven't already communicate with your elected Councilmembers ahead of time to express your opinions, concerns, or issues about any single agenda item ahead of time]. You are also encouraged and allowed to make three-minutes to speak up at City Council meetings. _________________________________________________________________________ Source for these inserts > http://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
Way too much fun today fooling around over a style-piece that appeared in The New York Times on Friday the 13th ... "Before this renaissance, “horny” had been gross for quite a long time. For many, the word has been most closely associated with unbridled adolescent male arousal thanks to conventional teen sex comedies like “Porky’s” or “American Pie.
It was mischievous, it was socially acceptable, but above all, it was decidedly masculine. It’s a perception that was hundreds of years in the making.
This will probably come as a shock to absolutely no one, but the word “horny” stems from the description of an animal horn. Twenty-five years ago, William Safire wrote about “horny” for his etymology column in The New York Times Magazine, noting that a “horn is hard; it is shaft-shaped; since the 15th century, it has been used as a symbol for the male’s erect sex organ.”
But here we are, half a millennium later, and women are not just aroused, not just sexual beings, but are, indeed, horny, and reclaiming a word that never really applied to them to begin with.
“Horny” first went mainstream about halfway into 2018
It’s possible that after a solid year of #MeToo, in which women were using social media to publicly share sexual harassment and abuse allegations, asserting what they didn’twant, maybe it felt good to pivot to communicating what they did want.
Expressing one’s horniness, as a woman, represents a significant shift from that of sexual object to sexual subject. . .
Allison P. Davis, a staff writer for New York magazine and The Cut, considers it a form of thwarting the patriarchy...
She would know. Ms. Davis is writing a book called “Horny,” a combination of personal storytelling and cultural reporting on “one of the last great taboos: female horniness.” . . .
Ms. Benoit also thinks that the substantial contextual difference in this modern form of horniness is rooted in women’s liberation
“I think #MeToo came from women already knowing that they can have sex on their own terms, which is what horny is about,” she said.
The idea that women could at once loathe sexual impropriety and desire dirty sex seems simple and obvious, yet it’s been an agonizingly protracted journey for us to arrive here . . .
The Year Women Got ‘Horny’
Women reclaimed a word once the province of crass boys and men who are boys.
