Arizona Corporation Commission reaffirms monthly APS fee for homeowners with solar panels

The Arizona Corporation Commission has voted to reaffirm a controversial charge levied on some customers with rooftop solar panels.The utility-regulating panel voted 3-1 on Tuesday, finding that the grid-access charge doesn’t unlawfully discriminate against residential solar customers. Rather, the commission, citing what it termed substantial evidence, called the charges “just, reasonable and in the public…

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Trio of builders buy more lots at giant Buckeye master-planned community

Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) selected Scottsdale-based Meritage Home Corp. (NYSE: MTH) to join its roster of builders at the 37,000-acre Teravalis master-planned community in Buckeye.Meritage becomes the seventh homebuilder that will bring homes to Teravalis.The Arizona builder paid $1.83 million for 81 lots at Floreo, the first village to be developed at Teravalis,…

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Despite Trump’s claim, deportations likely wouldn’t ease housing crisis, most experts say

President-elect Donald Trump’s mass deportation plan could potentially upend a construction workforce reliant on immigrants, stalling efforts to build more homes. (Photo by Getty Images)This story originally appeared in Stateline.The mass deportations of immigrants that President-elect Donald Trump has promised aren’t likely to make a dent in the nation’s housing crisis, many experts say, despite…

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Church Boys Racing on Fast Track to Success

BRISTOLVILLE, Ohio – A cherry red 1964 Chevy II Nova greets visitors as they walk in the door of Church Boys Racing. It’s the first car of AZN, one of the stars of the former long-running Discovery Channel television show “Street Outlaws.” But the work to restore, revamp and rebuild it was all Church Boys…

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