Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by Dana.

I came across this article about the 400+ miles of new highways proposed about the expanding PHX metro area over the next 40 years.  According to the article, if the new highways are not built…. with urban sprawl and increased population, it will take over 5 hours to travel as far as you can get in 30-60 minutes now.  Is that crazy?  Maybe will have retired to a Kentucky Farm by then.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 by Dana.

Why is this news?  Because AZ Republic (azcentral.com) doesn’t really doesn’t print much else… anyway… this article about the schools (where my kids go) now have SmartBoards.  This is a technology available 10 years ago, and deployed to many businesses 6-8 years ago.  I guess they finally dropped the price tag down to a reasonable level.

Now teachers can electronically scribble on the PowerPoint slides they made in 1998 and never updated.  Isn’t the state of education in America great? *eye roll*

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009 by karen.

While browsing facebook this morning, I come across a poll on suggestions that would make Ahwatukee better.  While I do think some retail would be good, is that really what is going to improve our community?  I believe several restaurants have been suggested including more fast food joints.  Because that will make our community better???  Hmmm…what about batting cages, a bowling alley, I even suggested an entertainment complex, a gun club, etc…  Or better yet, a co-op farm.  Clearly, the community wouldn’t go for that but when someone is asking what will make the community better…the last thing I think of is more retail outlets when we already have so much.   The retail options would simply add a convenience but not improve the area.  They would create more jobs, but so would other options.  What would you do to improve your community???

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