Published Ahead-of-Time (with Urgency) by The Atlantic > A Story by Barton Gellman

Red Lights are blinking: DANGER AHEAD

Let us not hedge about one thing. Donald Trump may win or lose, but he will never concede.

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the November issue of The Atlantic; we’ve published it early on our website because of its urgency. Subscribers to the print magazine can expect to receive the issue in mid-October.

"There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11. As November 3 approaches, their screens are blinking red, alight with warnings that the political system does not know how to absorb. They see the obvious signs that we all see, but they also know subtle things that most of us do not. Something dangerous has hove into view, and the nation is lurching into its path. 

The Election That Could Break America

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• Story by Barton Gellman

Planning & Development: The Normal Process From Scratch-to-Finish + Points-in-Between

Internal and external. The crossing-point when government decides to do or not to do something.

The featured example today is for the Study Session and Public Hearing to be conducted by the City's Planning & Zoning Board - a "refresher" presentation to remind the members about the Open Meeting Laws and Conflict of Interest presented by Assistant City Attorney Charlotte McDermott

By the time "something" reaches the Mesa

City Council there's a step-by-step process in place in a framework of prescripted time. That's the way it's supposed to work fast-tracked or not . . .

In the course of human events involving city staff employees and public citizen volunteers appointed to serve on various boards and committees - those actions are all internal. Likewise, they are a matter of public record and a subject for review, reaction and response. Those actions - if any - are external.

Here's an example of what the Planning & Zoning Board has on the agenda today: a study session and a Public Hearing:

STUDY SESSION AGENDA

Planning and Zoning Board - Study Session
City of Mesa
Meeting Agenda - Final
Mesa Council Chambers 57 East First Street
Chair Dane Astle

Vice Chair Jessica Sarkissian

Boardmember Tim Boyle

Boardmember Shelly Allen

Boardmember Jeffrey Crockett

Boardmember Deanna Villanueva-Saucedo

Boardmember Benjamin Ayers
2:30 PMVirtual Platform Wednesday, October 14, 2020
1 Call meeting to order.
2 Review items on the agenda for the October 14, 2020 regular Planning and Zoning Board Hearing

BLOGGER INSERT:

File #:

PZ 20125

Type:

PZ Preliminary Plat

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing

On agenda:

10/14/2020

Title:

“Eastridge Manor” District 6. Within the 3100 block of South Eastridge (east side). Located south of Guadalupe Road and east of Hawes Road (4.2± acres). Preliminary Plat. Sean Lake, Pew and Lake, P.L.C., applicant; Douglas Sweeney, Briton Companies Eastridge Manor, LLC, owner. Planner: Wahid Alam Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions

Attachments:

1. Vicinity Map, 2. Staff Report, 3. Preliminary Plat, 4. Narrative, 5. Presentation

 

3 PZ 20127 Receive and discuss a presentation on Open Meetings Law and Conflict of Interest

Meeting Details

File #:

PZ 20127

Type:

PZ Presentation

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

Planning and Zoning Board - Study Session

On agenda:

10/14/2020

Title:

Receive and discuss a presentation on Open Meetings Law and Conflict of Interest.

Attachments:

1. Open Meeting Law and Conflict of Interest Presentation

 

_____________________________________________________________________________________

4 PZ 20128 Receive and discuss a presentation on proposed text amendments to Chapters 67 and 69 of Title 11 of the Mesa Zoning Ordinance including, but not limited to, the procedures for site plan reviews including administrative approval for certain initial site plan reviews

File #:

PZ 20128

Type:

PZ Presentation

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

Planning and Zoning Board - Study Session

On agenda:

10/14/2020

Title:

Receive and discuss a presentation on proposed text amendments to Chapters 67 and 69 of Title 11 of the Mesa Zoning Ordinance including, but not limited to, the procedures for site plan reviews including administrative approval for certain initial site plan reviews.

Attachments:

1. Miscellaneous Text Amendments, 2. 2020 Chapter 69 of the Zoning Ordinance, 3. Ordinance for Misc. Site Plan Amendments

5 Planning Director's Updates.
• Status of on-going review of text amendments to the 2040 Mesa General Plan and Zoning Ordinance.         

• Decisions of the City Council’s October 5, 2020 land use hearings.

___________________________________________________________________________________

 MEETING DETAILS FOR PUBLIC HEARING

Meeting Name:

Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing

Agenda status:

Final

Meeting date/time:

10/14/2020 4:00 PM

Minutes status:

Draft

Meeting location:

Virtual Platform

Published agenda:

Agenda

File #:

PZ 20123

Type:

PZ Minutes

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing

On agenda:

10/14/2020

Title:

Minutes from the September 23, 2020 study session and regular hearing.

Attachments:

1. September 23, 2020 Study Session Minutes, 2. September 23, 2020 Minutes

File #:

PZ 20124

Type:

PZ Zoning - Action

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing

On agenda:

10/14/2020

Title:

ZON20-00488   District 3. Located within the 2300 block of West Broadway Road (south side) and within the 400 block of South Valencia (west side). Located west of Dobson Road on the south side of Broadway Road. (1.5± acres). Site Plan Review.  This request will allow for the development of a medical and dental office building and use. Phil Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald and Associates, applicant; MT Bross LLC, owner. Planner: Kellie Rorex Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions

Attachments:

1. Vicinity Map, 2. Staff Report, 3. Site Plan, 4. Grading and Drainage Plan, 5. Landscape Plan, 6. Elevations, 7. Narrative, 8. Citizen Participation Plan, 9. Citizen Participation Report, 10. Presentation

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Is all that exists just whatever exists right now? Is the past erased and the future a void yet to be filled? Well, the answer lies in between the past and the future - in the elusive, ever-moving eye-blink that we call the present.

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Chris Hedges on Death of Journalism

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•Oct 13, 2020

In this clip from the Waking Up With Julianna Forlano show, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Chris Hedges, discusses how "journalism itself has been on freefall ever since the internet"... going into his history in the business since the 80's, pondering what a sustainable model might be going forward, and more. You may know Chris from reading one of his best-selling books including American Fascists: The Christian Right and the The War On America, 
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, 
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, 
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, 
Death of the Liberal Class.  
Or his weekly interview show On Contact where he interviews “dissident voices” currently missing from the mainstream media, the black sheep of the establishment, leading to discussions that are not easy to find. Chris is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. 
He has written 12 books, including the New York Times best-seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. 
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No One Understands Money, and It's Becoming a $14 Trillion Problem

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