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The convoluted, fast-changing world of Arizona coal power
The dirty little secret about power generation is that most states, including Arizona, rely heavily on coal. Sure, Arizona has mandated 15% renewable energy by 2025 but for now, King Coal reigns.Even ...
08 Aug, 2011
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Is the Arizona border safer than ever?
By most accounts, the Arizona border appears to be safer than ever. Illegal border crossings are down, mainly because the Department of Homeland Security is able to monitor more of the border than eve ...
08 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
Top Democrats call Tea Party members "terrorists"
Members of the Tea Party movement have been called a lot of nasty things before like: crazy, extremists, teabaggers, and racists, but in the final hours of the debt ceiling debate, just one month befo ...
03 Aug, 2011
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Arizona drowning in negative equity says new report
Research shows that almost half of all Arizona mortgages were "underwater” by the end of the first fiscal quarter of 2011. Only Nevada, at 63 percent, had a higher rate of homes with negative equity, ...
02 Aug, 2011
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Independent voters continue to swell in Grand Canyon State
Based on the latest report from the office of the Arizona Secretary of State, both major parties continue to lose support as the growth rate of Arizona's Independent voter base further intensifies."Re ...
02 Aug, 2011
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Arizona to have world's largest solar power soon
EnviroMission, an Australian company, plans to build the world's largest solar tower energy plant in the world in Arizona by 2015. When completed, the central tower will be 2,625 feet tall, twice that ...
01 Aug, 2011
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Death of California union icon mourned across nation
Farmworker movement leader Richard Chavez passed away Wednesday at Bakersfield hospital. Richard helped found the United Farmworkers of America with his brother Cesar. According to union spokeswoman M ...
28 Jul, 2011
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Tuscon mayoral primary raises Green Party profile in Arizona
With registered voters abandoning the Democratic and Republican parties statewide, the Green Party’s candidates for mayor of Tucson see an opening ahead of their primary election showdown late next mo ...
27 Jul, 2011
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Arizona renewable energy poised to grow
More than 80 applications have been filed in Arizona for wind and power plants. If even some of them are approved, it would mean thousands of new jobs, increased tax revenues, and other econ ...
27 Jul, 2011
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Monster Haboob
The haboob that hit Phoenix on July 5 was indeed a monster, the largest in decades. It was at least 100 miles long, lasted for two hours, and was several thousand feet high. A second, less powerful ha ...
26 Jul, 2011
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