Yep, folks sure love their cars in Phoenix. The freeway construction never seems to stop, no matter how high the smog rises. And the congestion never seems to stop, either.
But an interesting thing is happening in our sprawling metropolis to the north. People with cars are choosing to take the bus instead.
According to an [...]

I’ve served for the last seven months on the Citizens’ Advisory Committee of the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), a body of 35 people from across the region, representing many different interests & backgrounds. All of us are dedicated to creating a regional transportation plan which can fix current problems, set a tone for the future, [...]

We’ve made our interactive feature mapping Fred’s contributions even more compelling. There’s now a fully interactive page mapping where the Friends O’ Farley contributors live. And there is an amazing comparison page that flips back and forth from a map of the Ronstadt contributions to a map of the Farley contributions: a revealing geography lesson [...]

Most reasonable leaders from John McCain to Raul Grijalva now agree that global warming is a major threat to our environment and economy, and we need to act yesterday to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases at every level to avoid disaster. But President Bush announced this week at the G-8 summit that reducing greenhouse [...]

An excellent Star front-page article today tells us the story of Dorothy Gooding, a 92-year-old whose driver’s license was revoked. “When they took my wheels, they cut off my legs,” Gooding said. “I felt trapped.”
By 2010, almost one-third of our residents will be seniors, and almost one-half of them will be unable to drive. In [...]

The campaign finance reports are in through 5/31/05, and Fred Ronstadt is finally revealing where his money is coming from. Drum roll, please…. The Foothills!
Yes, it’s hardly surprising that he’s getting big money from outside the city limits, but there are a couple of particularly eye-opening facts revealed in this filing:
Out of Fred’s 105 [...]