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Archive for November, 2005

Chill our Heat Islands

Wednesday, November 30th, 2005

It may seem a little funny to talk about the heat island effect right after our first freezing nights of the season, but summer will be arriving sooner than ever in the coming years, thanks to global warming. Besides, there is a heat island mitigation workshop in town next week, and it’s open to the [...]

Posted in Protecting the Environment, Public Health | 1 Comment »

Was Tuesday’s election a referendum on D-M?

Thursday, November 10th, 2005

Mapping the turnout for Tuesday’s huge electoral victory for two progressive Democrats shows an interesting trend.

Note that most of the precincts with the heaviest turnout are also under the flight path for Davis-Monthan combat jets.
Considering that the D-M noise & safety issues were a huge campaign issue, and Fred Ronstadt in particular took [...]

Posted in Respecting Citizens | 1 Comment »

A new era in Tucson

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

Congrats to new councilmembers Karin Uhlich and Nina Trasoff as they thumped the incumbents Dunbar & Ronstadt tonight by impressive margins. Precinct-by-precinct maps of turnout and percentage of votes for Uhlich and for Trasoff are now available for your perusal.
Looks like we’ve finally given ourselves the city government we’ve been waiting for with a 5-1-1 [...]

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SunTran ridership soaring

Tuesday, November 8th, 2005

The September report on SunTran bus performance is now out, and it shows that September’s ridership is up 6.5% over last September, as Tucsonans discover that taking the bus is cheaper and more convenient than taking your car back & forth to work and filling its tank for $60 a week. Revenues are up more [...]

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Exploring the End of Oil

Monday, November 7th, 2005

This week, there is a conference going on in Denver hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, where industry experts are sharing information about how quickly we are all running out of oil, and what happens as this foundation of the world’s economy dramatically declines.
We at the People’s Policy Project have [...]

Posted in 3rd Rail of the Week, Economic Development, Protecting the Environment, Public Health, Sensible Development, Transportation | 1 Comment »