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POSSIBLE TOPICS: VOTETEXAS.GOV—Voter Information; ‘It’s skyrocketing’ | Young Hispanic women fuel local spike in voter registration; Pearland’s new budget includes 13% water rate increase; “It’s destroying me”: Storm after storm, climate change increases strain on Texans’ mental health; From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, [but] neglect them; World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report; Almost half of U.S. governors ask Joe Biden to cut student loan forgiveness plan; Michigan Supreme Court orders abortion rights initiative to appear on November ballot; Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?; OPINION: What is the future of the UK and northern Ireland under King Charles III?; More. 

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3. ‘It’s skyrocketing’ | Young Hispanic women fuel local spike in voter registration; With 57 days to go until election day, new voter registrations continue to spike in Harris County. Who these voters are could swing outcomes in November. Author: Marcelino Benito (KHOU) | Published: 10:28 PM CDT September 12, 2022, Updated: 10:28 PM CDT September 12, 2022
   1. Across the country, women under 45 are driving a spike in voter registration. In Harris County, it’s Hispanic women fueling the surge in potential new voters. …
   2. [KHOU political analyst Bob Stein’s] research shows a majority of the potential new voters live in Harris County’s Democratic precincts. “These are close races, but Democrats should feel better about these voter registrations,” Stein said. …
   3. … Something is motivating women to want to vote, and Stein said the data suggests that the issue is abortion. …
4. Pearland’s new budget includes 13% water rate increase; By Jake Magee | COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM | 3:05 PM Sep 13, 2022 CDT, Updated 3:05 PM Sep 13, 2022
   1. Pearland’s budget for fiscal year 2022-23, which will begin Oct. 1, will [probably] include a 13% increase to water rates …
   2. Major changes in the FY 2022-23 budget include hiring four new firefighters to balance shifts, hiring two telecommunications operators and one police officer, hiring new drainage maintenance crew members, updating the city’s master drainage plan and purchasing police equipment.
   3. In addition, the budget raises pay 5.5% for city employees—6.5% for police and fire department employees—and increases sick leave buyback from 40 hours to 60. Sick leave buyback allows employees to annually trade in unused sick time for money. …
   4. Perhaps the biggest change in the FY 2022-23 budget for residents is the fact that it includes a 13.1% water rate increase.
   5. Most Pearland residents will not see a flat 13.1% increase, however. The average household in Pearland uses 6,000 gallons of water per month and will pay about $7.50 more a month, which is an increase of 9.5%. This is due to various factors, including moving off the 32/30 plan.
   6. Driving the water rate increase is a $535.1 million investment in projects to expand and upgrade water systems. Pearland’s new surface water treatment plant will be operation in FY 2022-23, and other water reclamation and plant facilities will be improved and expanded.
   7. The rate increases will not stop at 13.1%; the FY 2023-24 through FY 2026-27 budgets calls for additional annual increases ranging from 8% to 19%. …
   8. MIKE: There’s actually quite a bit more to this story, including a whole side story about the 32/30 water billing plan — an example of good intentions gone bad — and other budget issues.
   9. ANDREW: Not having been the billpayer in my household, I didn’t know a lot about the 32/30 situation even though TV news covered it fairly often. Reading the linked article gave me a good overview of the problem and how we got to it. I’m not happy about City Council’s plans to introduce smart meters, though, due to concerns over the security of the data they collect, which can be used to identify what’s happening in your home. Both private actors and the police could do a lot of harm with that data.
   10. MIKE: Smart meters are already in Houston and other cities and are increasingly ubiquitous. And of course, cyber security can never be too good. But the water infrastructure story is one we are seeing replicated all over the country. Whether it’s about water conservation, water treatment, wastewater treatment, or replacing or building water delivery infrastructure, the increasing price of water in this country is going to be one of the major ongoing stories of the next 100 years.
   11. The Pearland story is mainly a water infrastructure story, but a broader story about water involves climate change.
5. “It’s destroying me”: Storm after storm, climate change increases strain on Texans’ mental health; Tens of thousands of coastal Texas residents have survived repeated extreme weather events including Hurricane Harvey. For many, it has taken an emotional toll, and researchers warn that climate change could be “catastrophic” for our mental health. By Erin Douglas, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE via HOUSTONPUBLICMEDIA.ORG | Posted on September 8, 2022, 10:39 AM
   1. … For decades, atmospheric scientists have predicted climate change would bring more intense tropical storms and hurricanes. Separate analyses found that climate change likely increased Hurricane Harvey’s total rainfall by as much as 19% and Tropical Storm Imelda’s by between 9% and 17%.
   2. More intense natural disasters are taking an increasing toll on people’s mental health. An international group of leading scientists concluded in the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that extreme weather events are followed by increased rates of mental illness.
   3. Houston has been hit particularly hard. Harvey — which made landfall near Rockport and slowly inundated a swath of coastal Texas from Harris County to the Louisiana border — followed two other 500-year flood events in Houston: the Memorial Day flood in 2015 and the Tax Day flood in 2016. Harris County, which includes Houston, has seen seven federally declared disasters due to severe weather in the last decade.
   4. In a small sample of Hurricane Harvey survivors surveyed in the weeks after the storm — which dumped more than 60 inches of rain across the Houston region, causing catastrophic flooding — researchers found that 46% of Houston-area participants met the threshold for probable PTSD symptoms. More than half of the 41 survivors in the study experienced symptoms of anxiety. …
   5. Researchers are beginning to use new terms including “climate trauma,” “climate anxiety” and “eco-grief” — referring to trauma from events made worse by climate change, general distress about climate change and grief for the plants, animals and places that may be lost — to describe mental health conditions precipitated by the effects of climate change. Whether such conditions are unique or simply a psychological response to a specific stressful event is an active area of research. …
   6. MIKE: And this doesn’t even include tornadoes, which are probably bigger and more frequent due to climate change.
   7. MIKE: My house burned down during Hurricane Ike. That was traumatizing enough. Losing power and water for days during Winter Storm Uri was sufficiently traumatizing to make me buy solar panels for energy security.
6. From floods to slime: Mobile home residents say landlords make millions, [but] neglect them; By Chris Arnold (Twitter) and Robert Benincasa (Twitter) | NPR.ORG | August 21, 2022, 7:01 AM ET
   1. … Heritage Plantation [is] a mobile home park 20 minutes from the ocean [Vero Beach, Fla.]
   2. …Residents in the park say the streets have been flooding after normal rainfall for 20 years, due to an antiquated and broken stormwater drainage system.
   3. They say the water has damaged their homes and is often deep enough that people get trapped in their houses. Some are elderly. They say emergency vehicles have refused to respond to calls due to the flooding.
   4. … Millions of Americans live in mobile home parks – one of the nation’s last options for affordable homeownership.
   5. But in recent years, big companies have been buying up mobile home parks. And critics say some are making hundreds of millions of dollars in profits collecting and raising rents on their typically lower-income residents, without spending enough money on even basic maintenance and upkeep.
   6. Allegations from residents at parks around the country, owned by ELS [Equity Lifestyle Partners] or other companies, have ranged from persistent sewage backups to drinking water and power outages. Other claims include aggressive eviction policies and unfair business practices. …
   7. … [Beth Fegan, is an attorney representing the residents at the park in Vero Beach. S]he took the residents’ case and sued ELS in federal court. Fegan says the company’s failure to fix the stormwater system violates the promise it makes in the park’s prospectus for residents. And she says the problems here go beyond this individual case. …
   8. While buying a manufactured home offers the promise of home ownership, residents of mobile home parks don’t have the same independence and economic power that owners of traditional homes do.
   9. For one thing, the homes are mobile in name only. Once they’re trucked in and assembled, it’s difficult and expensive to move them. It can also be prohibitively expensive to find another place to live. Manufactured housing households had a median income of less than $35,000 in 2019, according to the American Housing Survey. …
   10. Since the homeowners don’t own the lot the home sits on, that can leave them vulnerable to the decisions of their landlords when it comes to maintenance, rent increases and even eviction. …
   11. ELS is a multi-billion dollar, publicly traded company that lists about 200 mobile home parks in its portfolio. It also owns RV parks and marinas. Its net income was about $263 million last year. …
   12. The manager at the ELS [Heritage Plantation] park said she couldn’t talk to NPR reporters. And no one from the company would agree to an interview. But ELS spokeswoman Jennifer Ludovice says in a statement to NPR that the lawsuit misrepresents conditions at the park and that the company, “invest[s] in the maintenance of the community to ensure it remains a desirable neighborhood.”
   13. Ludovice says homeowners are free to sell their homes if they want to and often do. …
   14. [Dick Bruce] and his wife, Jean, who are retired, worry that if they force the company to spend a lot of money fixing the flooding problems, it will raise their lot rents more than it otherwise would.
   15. Company spokeswoman Ludovice says the company has spent more than $300,000 improving the stormwater system over the last three years and that three former homeowners association officers are on the record saying the system functions as it should. …
   16. Residents also say that over the years the flooding has caused a lot of damage. …
   17. [Michael Frawley’s mother] lived in a home in the park for 23 years [and passed away recently] …
   18. Frawley says he had to replace her floors twice, with pressure treated plywood, because they rotted out.
   19. From an investor standpoint, choosing an industry where maintenance and overhead costs are relatively low, is, as they say, not a bug but a feature.
   20. ELS says as much in its annual report. “Compared to other types of real estate companies, our business model is characterized by low maintenance costs and low customer turnover costs,” the report says.
   21. Former ELS board member and current shareholder Michael Torres agrees. “It’s just basically resurfacing roads and having a shared community center. You don’t own walls and roofs.”
   22. Residents have to fix their own roofs or floors, or pretty much anything else that needs repair in their homes because they own them. Torres says that’s one of the things that makes investing in mobile home parks, “the gold standard of investing in property.”
   23. Torres manages more than $2 billion in investments through his company, Adelante Capital Management. Mostly, he invests in real estate investment trusts (REITs), like ELS. And he does not seem to have much sympathy for the homeowners at the park in Florida.
   24. “Streets flood, “Torres says. “You chose that community – buyer beware. It’s like people that move next to a school and complain about the noise. To me there’s no story here.” …
   25. At the Heritage Plantation park, the local government has gotten involved. Frustrated residents called officials with Indian River County, only to be told that they too, had limited power over ELS. The park, they noted, is private property.
   26. But, county officials say that, in addition to the flooding, the stormwater system appeared to have another problem.
   27. “Their storm water is going in our sewer system,” says County Commissioner Joe Earman.
   28. He says the county ordered ELS to fix that problem, but even after fining the company $100 a day for several years, it remains unfixed. As of mid July, the fines had reached $157,700.
   29. “When they make no effort to contact us and (they) owe you $150,000 in code enforcement fines and don’t ever reach out to us about it, that kind of sends a red flag up to us,” Earman says.
   30. ELS says it has in fact fixed that problem and is now in the process of resolving the issue with the county. …
   31. MIKE: This story has infrastructure, climate change, caveat emptor, bad landlords
   32. ANDREW: This conduct just as possible & just as bad from a small landlord as from a corporate one. In this case, company size influencing response. One park has problems? Don’t worry, we have hundreds! Fines? We make millions in revenue! Housing regs probably written for small landlords who couldn’t ignore consequences this long. Retaliatory rent raising also a concern. Need regulatory monitoring to make sure that doesn’t happen… assuming it isn’t legal.
7. World heading into ‘uncharted territory of destruction’, says climate report; Governments and businesses failing to change fast enough, says United in Science report, as weather gets increasingly extreme. By Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent | THEGUARDIAN.COM | Tue 13 Sep 2022 09.30 EDT, Last modified on Tue 13 Sep 2022 12.22 EDT
   1. The world’s chances of avoiding the worst ravages of climate breakdown are diminishing rapidly, as we enter “uncharted territory of destruction” through our failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions and take the actions needed to stave off catastrophe, leading scientists have said.
   2. Despite intensifying warnings in recent years, governments and businesses have not been changing fast enough, according to the United in Science report published on Tuesday. The consequences are already being seen in increasingly extreme weather around the world, and we are in danger of provoking “tipping points” in the climate system that will mean more rapid and in some cases irreversible shifts. …
   3. The United in Science report found: [MIKE: Keep in mind that 1^oC equals 1.8^oF]
   4. The past seven years were the hottest on record and there is a 48% chance during at least one year in the next five that the annual mean temperature will temporarily be 1.5C [2.7^oF] higher than the 1850-1900 average.
   5. Global mean temperatures are forecast to be between 1.1^oC and 1.7^oC higher than pre-industrial levels from 2022-2026, and there is a 93% probability that at least one year in the next five will be warmer than the hottest year on record, 2016.
   6. Dips in carbon dioxide emissions during the lockdowns associated with the Covid-19 pandemic were temporary, and carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels returned to pre-pandemic levels last year.
   7. National pledges on greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient to hold global heating to 1.5^oC above pre-industrial levels.
   8. Climate-related disasters are causing $200m in economic losses a day.
   9. Nearly half the planet – 3.3 to 3.6 billion people – are living in areas highly vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis, but fewer than half of countries have early warning systems for extreme weather.
   10. As global heating increases, “tipping points” in the climate system cannot be ruled out. These include the drying out of the Amazon rainforest, the melting of the ice caps and the weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, known as the Gulf stream.
   11. By the 2050s, more than 1.6 billion people living in 97 cities will be regularly exposed to three-month average temperatures reaching at least 35C. [95^oF]
   12. MIKE: Keep in mind that in many places impacted by rising sea levels, It’s the equivalent of a global Dunkirk: People literally have their backs to the sea with no place to go. Whether living on islands or constrained by borders, millions, if not billions, of people will need some place to escape to. And for the vast majority, no country will want them. As usual, this is a much more detailed story; you can go to the story link at com.
   13. ANDREW: Solutions start with political will. The US two-party system very clearly lacks the political will necessary to stop global warming. One party claims it isn’t real. Efforts to change this from within that system are not going to achieve their goals fast enough to prevent billions of unnecessary deaths. Allowing third parties who do have the will to take major action against global warming to compete fairly in US elections is necessary if we want to even buy ourselves a little more time.
8. Almost half of U.S. governors ask Joe Biden to cut student loan forgiveness plan; By Ayana Archie | NPR.ORG | September 13, 2022, 1:33 AM ET
   1. Nearly half of the country’s governors have signed off on a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to withdraw his student loan forgiveness plan that would cancel up to $20,000 for federal aid borrowers.
   2. “As governors, we support making higher education more affordable and accessible for students in our states, but we fundamentally oppose your plan to force American taxpayers to pay off the student loan debt of an elite few…” the governors said in a letter dated Monday.
   3. The governors, all Republicans, argue that the lowest income Americans will be paying the debts of doctors, lawyers and professors “with the most debt, such as $50,000 or more…” …
   4. MIKE: Blah, blah, Republican talking points, blah.
   5. MIKE: The letter goes on to express how deeply concerned Republican governors are about fairness and college costs and college affordability and loan interest rates and inflation. What is not in the letter is the candid honesty of Republican Indiana Representative Jim Banks, who tweeted on August 25th: “Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.” What’s even more amazing is that that tweet is still up.
   6. MIKE: Remember the definition of a “gaffe” in politics: When a politician accidentally tells the truth.
   7. ANDREW: What’s also missing from the letter is recognition of the fact that as we discussed last week, most borrowers only get $10,000 forgived. Beyond that, I have a hard time believing that even someone benefiting as much as possible from the income-driven repayment plans– or who earns below $15 an hour and thus doesn’t have to repay anything– could cost taxpayers $50,000 in loan forgiveness. If Republicans have heart attacks over this, I can’t wait to see how they react to free college.
9. Michigan Supreme Court orders abortion rights initiative to appear on November ballot; By Veronica Stracqualursi | CNN | Updated 9:16 PM ET, Thu September 8, 2022 The Michigan Supreme Court ordered Thursday that a citizen-initiative ballot measure seeking to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution be added to the November ballot.
   1. The court’s 5-2 ruling was issued the day before Michigan’s ballot needs to be finalized on Friday. …
   2. In a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Bridget McCormack criticized the board’s two Republican members, who voted against certification, saying they would “disenfranchise millions of Michiganders.”
   3. “What a sad marker of the times,” she wrote. …
   4. [“They would disenfranchise millions of Michiganders not because they believe the many thousands of Michiganders who signed the proposal were confused by it, but because they think they have identified a technicality that allows them to do so, a game of gotcha gone very bad,” she wrote. – COM]
   5. Michigan Republicans blasted the decision, along with another on a voting rights ballot proposal. “Despite the court ruling, these measures remain too extreme for Michigan, and we are certain they will be handily defeated at the ballot box in November,” Elizabeth Giannone, deputy communications director for the state party, said in a statement Thursday evening. …
   6. The measure will appear on the ballot as Proposal 3, which would establish an “individual right to reproductive freedom, including right to make and carry out all decisions about pregnancy.”
   7. ANDREW: Michigan’s judges are elected on a non-partisan ballot. Proof that nonpartisan elected offices don’t exist. Also a clear example of the difference between right and left: the right lies and pretends that their way is objectively correct and changing law is just bringing it in line with what will happen anyway, while the left is honest about what could happen if law doesn’t change and argues to change the law to stop people getting hurt.
10. Alabama could use nitrogen hypoxia for executions in death sentences. What is it?; By Ayana Archie | NPR.ORG | September 13, 2022, 4:15 AM ET
    1. Alabama is readying an untried method of execution to carry out its death sentences – nitrogen hypoxia.
    2. The state approved the method in 2018, but it has not yet been used or tested.
    3. The man awaiting a Sep. 22 execution, Alan Eugene Miller …
    4. [Miller] said he opted for nitrogen hypoxia instead of lethal injection due to a fear of needles, but corrections officers lost his paperwork.
    5. While the Alabama attorney general’s office found no evidence of that, Miller could receive death by nitrogen hypoxia if a judge blocks the use of lethal injection.
    6. What is nitrogen hypoxia? Hypoxia is when there is not a sufficient amount of oxygen in the tissues for the body to perform its regular functions …
    7. Nitrogen hypoxia is a form of inert gas asphyxiation. Nitrogen is safe to breathe – it makes up 78% of what we inhale – but only when mixed with suitable amounts of oxygen.
    8. Inert gas asphyxiation uses gasses that are not typically poisonous, such as nitrogen … . reducing] oxygen concentration to fatally low amounts …
    9. In a [similar] case brought before the Supreme Court in 2014,] In the opinion of the Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch denied the request, saying that nitrogen hypoxia had been untested and Missouri could not properly prepare it. [The condemned plaintiff’s] proposal should have included how the nitrogen gas should be administered, in what amounts, how long it would take to work and how to keep the execution team safe, he said.
    10. The Court also ruled there was no evidence to support [plaintiff’s] claim that hypoxia would be less painful. …
    11. TAGS: nitrogen hypoxia lethal injection Alabama
    12. ANDREW: I oppose death penalties on principle– someone can’t learn from their mistakes if they’re dead, and a state that can kill criminals has a vested interest in criminalizing disagreeing with the people in power. Failing that, I prioritize dignity and autonomy of the condemned. In this case, the convicted man has chosen this method over lethal injection. If he has to die, I’d rather he choose how he goes.
    13. MIKE: Constitutional “Cruel and unusual”? Not “safe and effective”?
11. OPINION: What is the future of the UK and northern Ireland under King Charles III?
    1. MIKE: Andrew and I actually began discussing this last week, but everyone was like, “Queen Elizabeth’s body isn’t cold yet! Wait until after the funeral!”
    2. MIKE: In the media, I think that lasted less than 1 day.
    3. MIKE: History is often fixed for periods of a time, but then for relatively brief intervals, things become fluid. Queen Elizabeth’s reign was unprecedented; the longest in British history at 70 years, exceeding even Queen Victoria’s 63-year reign.
    4. MIKE: King Charles III is 73 years old. I think it’s safe to say that his reign will not last 70 years. All things being equal and assuming there’s still a British monarchy, he will be succeeded by Prince Harry, who is now 37. Harry won’t reign for 70 years either. So we’re entering a more “normal” period in British history, where every 10, 20, or 30 years, there will be a new monarch. This will make discussions of abolishing or severely diminishing the British monarchy more frequent.
    5. MIKE: What will this mean to the idea of British Republicanism, which in the UK means abolishing the monarchy and turning the United Kingdom into a republic? What will be the impact on the notions Scottish and Welsh independence? Would one result be union of northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, or would it mean some other arrangement? The Brits are going to be living through interesting times, and that is often a bad thing for people alive at the time.

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