[SUNDAY FEAURE] L.A. to Vegas and back by electric car: 8 hours driving; 5 more plugged in
A charging station in the parking lot for the World’s Tallest Thermometer in Baker, Calif. All told, the United States has about 24,000 public charging stations. /CreditPhilip Cheung for The New York Times By Ivan Penn | The New York Times You’ve heard it many times, from automakers, the energy industry and government officials: Electric […]
Read More →In property rights case, justices sharply debate power of precedent
Writing for the majority, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said overruling a 1985 decision was justified because it “was exceptionally ill founded.”/Credit/Doug Mills/The New York Times By Adam Liptak | The New York Times Overturning a 1985 precedent, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that plaintiffs may sue in federal court to seek compensation […]
Read More →Flake headed to Harvard
By KTAR.com Former U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona is going to the Ivy League, joining the Harvard resident fellows program in the fall. The Hill Flake, a Republican who spent 12 years in the House of Representatives, said in a tweet posted Thursday morning he looked forward to being at the famous Massachusetts campus. […]
Read More →Some Arizona electric companies are shutting off the power despite emergency rule
A policy change allows customers to keep their air conditioners and other appliances running during the hot months By Ryan Randazzo and Riley Murdock | Arizona Republic The temperature was forecast to hit 103 degrees in the city of Maricopa on Friday, but in the morning Terah Hamilton’s electric company told her they would shut […]
Read More →Arizona ranks high in residential solar in national report
By Hayley Ringle | Phoenix Business Journal As the U.S. solar market saw its best first quarter in history, Arizona remained near the top for residential solar capacity. Arizona had 52.83 total megawatts of solar capacity installed during the first quarter, and ranked third best in the country for residential solar with 41.9 megawatts, according […]
Read More →[REGIONAL NEWS] California vaccine-exemption crackdown amended to pull back on state control
As a surging number of California parents forgo required vaccines for their children because of health concerns, the lawmaker behind the state’s mandatory vaccination law wants to remove the power to grant those exemptions from individual doctors.Photo: Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images By Dustin Gardiner | San Francisco Chronicle The author of California legislation […]
Read More →Libertarian pushes court to rule on challenge to U.S. senator appointment
Martha McSally, Doug Ducey hold press conference after U.S. Senate announcement. /3TV/CBS5 By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services via Arizona Capitol Times Saying time is running out, the former chairman of the Arizona Libertarian Party wants the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to order an election – and soon – to decide who fills […]
Read More →The tension thing: Lawmakers weigh in on disputes, divisiveness of session
House Speaker Rusty Bowers speaks to rancor and grandstanding in th 2019 session,/Arizona Chamber of Commerce By Katie Campbell | Arizona Capitol Times The state House of Representatives is notoriously cantankerous, but this legislative session was more confrontational than anyone remembers. Some felt it more than others, but the consensus is the 2019 legislative session […]
Read More →Honesty is majority policy in lost wallet experiment
Research assistants handed in ‘lost’ wallets to banks, theatres, museums and police stations and measured outcomes. Photograph: AlesVeluscek/Getty/iStockphoto Public more likely to return wallet containing larger sum of money, global study finds By Hannah Devlin Science | The Guardian Here’s a moral dilemma: if you find a wallet stuffed with bank notes, do you pocket […]
Read More →UA study: Groundwater pumping has reduced stream flows
Mississippi River Basin By Mari N. Jenen | UA Groundwater pumping in the last century has contributed as much as 50 percent to stream flow declines in some U.S. rivers, according to new research led by a University of Arizona hydrologist. The new study has important implications for managing U.S. water resources. Laws regulating the […]
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