Environment

“Phoenix’s Best Days Have Arrived”: Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego Delivers an Optimistic, Cautionary, and Forward Agenda in Her Annual State of the City Address

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Saying Phoenix’s best days have arrived and the future is here, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego delivered her annual State of the City Address before a packed house of the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce at the Sheraton Hotel on Third Street. In her usual mix of optimism, policy wonkiness, and forward vision, Mayor Gallego summarized … Read more

Time to Buy an EV and Invest in Clean Energy

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What is that old saying? Necessity is the mother of invention in times of great need. Or maybe it should be a new proverb: affordability is the father of forward progress as Donald Trump’s war on clean energy, including ending subsidies for electric vehicle purchases and investments in solar and wind projects, coupled with his … Read more

The Man Who Bankrupted a Casino Releases His Screw-the-American-People Budget

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History will record that Trump and Republicans did this. While Mr. Trump, who is being reinforced and encouraged by White Christian Nationalist sycophants who equate him with Jesus, is releasing bombastic, unhinged social media posts and holding mentally unbalanced pro Putin press conferences promising to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age with God’s support … Read more