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ASU students voted—and they want change now
Northeast Valley News asked student voters what change they want to see come out of this midterm election. ASU Student, Temnu, said he’d like to see: “More efforts and more money being put towards environmental sustainability, and reduce cost of education… Those to me are very important since I’m a student and I’m also studying ecology”.
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Mesa Tops U.S. Cities in Manufactured-Home Share as Residents Face Eviction and $50K Moves
Mesa has a higher share of manufactured homes among its housing units than any other large city in the United States, according to a new analysis, even as some of the city's mobile-home residents are being forced out of their communities with moving bills running into the tens of thousands of dollars.
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This Arizona city bans wasting water and fines are steep
As Arizona anticipates federal cuts to its share of Colorado River water, residents may become hyperaware of their water use. Customers in Peoria should be, because wasting water is prohibited in the city. The city's local laws say things like leaving taps on when not in use, failing to repair water leaks, and allowing water to run off one's property onto streets or sidewalks are not allowed. Depending on the violation, residents could face a $250 to $1,000 fine, a class one misdemeanor, or their water shut off. Water waste was written into the city's local laws in 1992, but it has since been expanded. So far in 2026, the city's code department has reported 117 violations, mostly for water leaks and pool backwashing, according to Victoria Caster, Peoria's sustainability and water conservation coordinator. Arizona's allocation from the Colorado River will soon fall by nearly 25% over the next two years. That would amount to about 760,000 acre-feet of water, according to the federal plan meant to protect the drought-stricken Lake Mead and Lake Powell. An acre-foot of water is enough to supply three typical households for a year. Peoria gets its largest share, 44%, of water from the Central