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…and, no, we are not talking about taking peyote. Not that kind of vision conference. My friends at the Downtown Voices Coalition are hosting a 5-year retrospective and visioning conference on January 15th and 16th. These guys have done an incredible job of advocating for what it should look like in CenPho in the near future, [...] Here is another redistricting and census primer. We seem to go through this every ten years, too. Folks close to government and voting rights get out and want to encourage more participation in the census count, as it results in federal dollars and more congressional representation. Folks who don’t trust government do what they can to [...] In polite cocktail party chatter, after people ask why we don’t have more solar in Arizona, they often bemoan the fact that why we don’t have a high speed rail line between Phoenix or Tucson, etc. After all, there are only so many times you can get pinned between two 18-wheelers and a 20-year old in [...] Every 10 years we redraw the legislative and congressional line, usually poorly. Watch for two issues next year to be at the forefront: whether we should ask people their immigration status when we count them and what impact the foreclosure crisis will have on where people live. Congressional Quarterly does a good primer on this issue. The [...] The City of Phoenix announced a couple weeks ago that it will now take all numbers of plastic in recycling, except #6, which is styrofoam. This, despite hand wringing from certain quarters that cities can’t afford to recycle because there is less demand for recycled products. Kudos to the City of Phoenix for moving forward on this. [...] Here are three articles that, together, point to the trend downtown. 1) Downtown is the Real Deal. OK. This is an opinion piece, but it really speaks to the fact that there is a general perception of progress, despite the economic downturn. Oh, and they mention the Urban Grocery and Wine bar of which I am [...] You might have seen my previous post on this topic of the potential of the $8,000 tax credit. The National Association of Realtors wants Congress to extend and expand the $8,000 tax credit. Now it will not only be for first time home buyers, but everybody. As an agent, I would continue to do everything I can [...] You may know that the US Green Building Council will be here in town in November for a huge conference featuring Cheryl Crow, Al Gore, Smokey Robinson and, oh yeah…building sustainably. You may also know that it is more expensive to build green. So, how can we build inexpensive sustainable structures for low-income home buyers? How [...] The Arizona Republic ran an editorial (I think) on October 11th with a list of problems in policy-making and possible solutions. They suggest that the best way to reduce extremism in AZ politics is to (1) get rid of Clean Elections and (2) make competitive districts. It is nice to see that my three-year long mantra is [...] I’ve read this article by CNN commentator John Avlon several times because I think it is perfectly on the mark about what ails our republic. (If you are a regular reader of the Clark Report, you know that I believe that competitive redistricting is our only possible solution to an ever-polarizing political landscape. I won’t beat [...] |
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