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Pima County screws us again!

Risky Thicket said:
Jerome is holding on but is in my opinion becoming maybe too upscale artsy.

Prescott has a fantastic bluegrass festival around the 4th of July every year that we rarely miss. It's downtown and it's free. Prescott is a fine town.
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Fun place, an ex friend of mine opened a pub there, I'll have to avoid it next time I'm there..... :)
 
In Quartzite once as I was filling up my car with gas I looked over at the next pump and saw a lady probably in her mid to late 50's wearing a thong and Janet Jackson nipple jewelry filling up her car. ****ing Quartzite! Hahahahaha!

I think it has tamed a bit since then but the last I heard the naked guy was still selling books at the Oasis Library.

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Arizona don't need no stinking World View!
 
For a fun time in Arizona, nothing comes close to Salome on Dick Wick Hall Day.
 
Lutherf said:
Today the county Board of Supervisors decided to plunk down $15M to build World View a spaceport. They could be fixing roads but World View is important.

What? You've never heard of World View? Well they are one of the companies on the leading edge of making the world a better place!!

Here, they even have a website - World View Experience

And they have some of this!


See, if you actually look at earth from space you whole world view changes and you become a better person!!

Yep, this is EXACTLY the kind of business venture that Tucson needs to promote with taxpayer money! We NEED more businesses that charge [starting at] $75,000 for a 100,000 foot balloon ride and those businesses definitely need $15 Million dollar, taxpayer funded spaceports.

Now I know, some of you are sitting there thinking "Gee, there must be something more to this."

Well, you're right, there is. As it happens [purely by coincidence, mind you] one of the principles of World View is Mark Kelly, astronaut husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

And that, folks, is why the road behind my house has been under construction for two years with God only knows how much longer to go and why the only business that prosper in Tucson are call centers.

Board of Supervisors agrees to World View incentives - KVOA | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona
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well your road is probably still under construction because the contractor doesn't want the job to end any time soon until the next job comes up.
this is pretty much a requirement usually on that kind of stuff.

they take 2x as long.

so if their current job was scheduled to end in a month and their next project isn't till 2 months after they will extend it a month and a half.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Bisbee is a trip. It is still a place where the weird turn pro. Luther is correct, good food is no longer hard to find there. If I'm not mistaken they have two craft breweries in Bisbee.
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If you get the chance do Cafe Roka....really wonderful for foodies.
 
That whole area of the state seems to be in endless economic decline. We were stationed at Ft Huachuca 99-04 and even then they were talking about how standards of living in Cochise Co had been in decline for a decade. Then I saw something recently about how Sierra Vista got slammed in the Great Recession and has not come back much at all. For awhile there was talk about expanding the fort but no water meant no way, and I am not aware that the water problems have been solved. What was left of the mining industry seems doomed.

Ya, so where is the money going to come from? Does anyone think that millennials want to move to Tuscon? Bad weather, spread all out with not much transit so you have to drive

While Tucson’s No. 9 ranking in the Distressed Communities Index published by Economic Innovation Group may not be a surprise to many, Phoenix fares only slightly better, placing at No. 11, the bipartisan think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. reported.

In Tucson, 39 percent of the population is said to be living in a precarious economic situation, based on data obtained from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. In Phoenix that number is 35 percent.

“Phoenix and Tucson are still two of the worst hit cities that are still coming out of the recession,” said Steve Glickman, executive director at EIG. “In our view they are desperately in need of more private-sector investment and entrepreneurship to grow their way out of the economic crisis.”
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Report calls Tucson economically distressed

The schools suck right?

So ya, anything for jobs, Arizona politicians not being known for being the brightest of bulbs.

We’ve created an incentive package with 21 different incentives that businesses can take advantage of,” he said. “Some of them are specific to certain parts of the city, but some, like the primary jobs incentive, helped us land both Comcast and HomeGoods recently.”

As for startups, Rothschild said helping create groups such as Startup Tucson and the Arizona Center for Innovation is already paying off, but that it’s only the first step to long-term success.

“You don’t get named (by Entrepreneur Magazine) one of the top five cities for young entrepreneurs without having entrepreneurs in place,” he said.

“But the way to keep it going is we have to continue the investment, continue the outreach work and look at ways to attract these capital investors into our community.”

It is that kind philosophy from elected officials and civic leaders that is needed to support startup growth and pull the city out of its economic distress, Startup Tucson’s Williams said.

“It’s a new way of thinking, a new approach that is really important in the long run for our entire region, to find a way to make this a top priority for economic development,” he said.
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Start ups are going to be the answer they say.

OKEE DOKEE.

This plan does not pass 2 minutes of think with me but I am probably stupid.

Or something.
 
Lutherf said:
Today the county Board of Supervisors decided to plunk down $15M to build World View a spaceport. They could be fixing roads but World View is important.

What? You've never heard of World View? Well they are one of the companies on the leading edge of making the world a better place!!

Here, they even have a website - World View Experience

And they have some of this!


See, if you actually look at earth from space you whole world view changes and you become a better person!!

Yep, this is EXACTLY the kind of business venture that Tucson needs to promote with taxpayer money! We NEED more businesses that charge [starting at] $75,000 for a 100,000 foot balloon ride and those businesses definitely need $15 Million dollar, taxpayer funded spaceports.

Now I know, some of you are sitting there thinking "Gee, there must be something more to this."

Well, you're right, there is. As it happens [purely by coincidence, mind you] one of the principles of World View is Mark Kelly, astronaut husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

And that, folks, is why the road behind my house has been under construction for two years with God only knows how much longer to go and why the only business that prosper in Tucson are call centers.

Board of Supervisors agrees to World View incentives - KVOA | KVOA.com | Tucson, Arizona
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:shrug: I see nothing wrong with it. Spaceflight is the future after all. Even if people don't know or don't care about it there are others that recognize this fact. While this may just be balloons atm they'll prolly expand to actual flights on down the road. Indeed that may very well be why they need the 15 million. It's a smart call imo. Consider this a long term investment. Which is what it is.
 
Lutherf said:
Like, all of them!!:lamo

Intuit is down here. AOL is down here. There's two or three online tool retail places right near me. Geico is here. There's a collection outfit called Afni that just moved in. Comcast just came in. Sears is here. Living Social is hiring.

Hell, the city council is PROUD that we're pulling in all these call center jobs. - Steller: New call center a step forward
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Little India, eh?
 
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