about 4 months ago - 1 comment
The Arizona Senate passed Senate Bill 1070. It’s very controversial and I am against it becoming law. It will do nothing to help with border security and will most likely be too difficult to enforce. It’s also very possible that it is unconstitutional. The city attorney for Phoenix has instructed the Phoenix Police Department that,
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
Last week we had rain… lots of it. Consider this… Phoenix normally gets about 7 to 8 inches of rain a year and last week we got almost 3.5 inches. That’s kind of nuts to think about. Amazingly, there wasn’t much street flooding in the metro area, so that was good. The back yard of
about 7 months ago - 1 comment
So I read the FAQs online and was able to troubleshoot the heating problem. The system works like a charm now. Just in time, since the weather took a turn for the worse this week. We have had pretty not stop rain since yesterday at 4pm. Nuts.
about 8 months ago - No comments
Yesterday was a crazy weather day here in Arizona. Two interstates were closed because of bad weather. I-10 was closed South of Phoenix due to blowing dust. The low visibility caused a massive wreck that involved at least 8 semi trucks and killed 4 people. Insane. The second interstate was I-40 between Flagstaff and Williams.
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
A recent news story (here) announced that Stephen Banta will be named chief executive of Metro Light Rail. He comes to Phoenix via Portland, OR where he ran their TriMet system. He comes to the Valley at a good time. Metro is in a transition period where the light rail is moving from being the
about 9 months ago - 1 comment
Safeway and Fry’s (Kroger) employees are set to go on strike this Friday if an agreement isn’t reached between the companies and the Union. That’s all well and good but there are some issues that are troublesome for the Union and I’m wondering if they’ve really thought this whole thing through. First, Arizona is a
about 11 months ago - No comments
Check out the website. There seems to be quite a bit of interesting things going on during the Phoenix Design Week.
about 1 year ago - No comments
Where else will your weather program say the following?? Always the comedian, Mike stated “who’s dust?” after mentioning this output to him.
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Okay, for those of you that have been reading my blog, you know already that I’ve always seemed to have issues with my AC unit in my house. Well, this past weekend, it finally decided to give up to ghost, or rather, I decided to stop throwing money at it and just get a new
about 1 year ago - 4 comments
What is 12 of 12? Well, I am in Flagstaff, AZ this entire week getting my house ready for the new renters (yes! we got it rented!!). My 12th of May was spent running around town getting items and working in the back yard before my sister and her husband showed up later in the
