Going green, drab olive style

The largest single energy user in the country already wears varying shades of green, and now it is one step closer to another shade: energy independence. Fort Huachuca cut the ribbon on the Department of Defense’s largest solar array located just outside of the fort itself on Feb. 11, bringing the military closer to its…

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State forfeiture programs fatten police budgets

  More and more Arizona police departments boost budgets by seizing houses, cars and cash. It’s legal but questions arise that it encourages police to capture cash and leaves a muddled trail of money taken from some innocent people and deposited into department expense accounts. Between 2004 and 2014 Arizona police seized $382 million from individuals…

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