{"id":7660,"date":"2014-10-07T12:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/conservative-cities-are-better-mesa-arizona-for-example\/"},"modified":"2014-10-07T12:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T12:38:32","slug":"conservative-cities-are-better-mesa-arizona-for-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/10\/07\/conservative-cities-are-better-mesa-arizona-for-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Cities are Better: Mesa, Arizona, for example"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While it\u2019s willing to make investments, Mesa is also lean in ways that more bloated liberal cities can\u2019t boast. Take the City Council. Despite Mesa\u2019s hefty population, council members are part-timers who have day jobs in fields from education to copper mining. City leaders also pay themselves considerably less than those in other cities do. Mesa City Council members make only $33,000 a year, and the mayor is paid only $73,000. (And those salaries represent the fruits of a big raise: Before last year, city councilmembers made less than $20,000 a year and the mayor earned only $36,000.) By contrast, as of 2012, in similarly sized Fresno, the mayor made $126,000; city council members brought home nearly $65,000. In neighboring Phoenix, meanwhile, the mayor makes $88,000 and city councilmen earn more than $61,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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 Story here.  Excerpt: While it\u2019s willing to make investments, Mesa is also lean in ways that more bloated liberal cities can\u2019t boast. Take the City Council. Despite Mesa\u2019s hefty population, council members are part-timers who have day jobs in fields from education to copper mining. City leaders also pay themselves considerably less than those in … Continue reading “Conservative Cities are Better: Mesa, Arizona, for example”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}