In doing my daily review of the local news this morning, I was confronted and confounded by several “overlay” pages on AZCentral.com that blocked the content I was trying to read. It appears impossible to get past them without answering some stupid survey question. A little investigation reveals these are generated by BounceExchange.com, which is […]
Water in the Desert
Scott Tong aired a great piece on water usage on National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” show this afternoon: “Counting gallons: How much water do you use?” I was not shocked to learn that the USA has the highest per capita water consumption, and below median “tariff” (what the end user pays). Please, read the article, then […]
The Economic Development Lie
The Republic’s Robert Robb penned a great article recently in which he said: While these two high-visibility projects [First Solar in Mesa, and Apple/GT Advanced Technologies at the same location as First Solar] were going bust, there were 124,000 jobs added in the Valley. Virtually all of them were created by companies you’ve never heard […]