Why small towns along old Route 66 are building electric vehicle chargers
A driver stopping for fuel is there for five minutes. A driver charging a car is there for thirty or forty.
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Why Central Valley farmers are selling water rights instead of planting
A grower with water and no crop can still have a business.
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How Sacramento County decides where to build new suburban parks
The decision is made years before anyone digs anything, in documents almost nobody reads, and by the time...
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Why Milwaukee dispatchers are learning sign language and text protocols
For most of the history of the emergency number, if you could not speak on a telephone you could not reach help directly.
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Why Tucson mobile home parks are forming cooperatives to buy their land
If you own a mobile home in a park, you own the home and you rent the ground it sits on.
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What happens when a small town loses its only ambulance service
The service does not usually collapse dramatically. It resigns, or the contract is not renewed, or the volunteer roster falls below the number needed...