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Only a little over half the flights from major airports like Chicago, Newark, Kennedy and others are on time.

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A company in San Jose, California, SunPower, which manufactures solar cells, can convert 22% of solar energy into electricity. The industry average is 18-20%. Companies like Microsoft are installing solar panels on their roofs to conserve on electricity consumption.

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Paul Kasriel sees the numbers for personal disposable income and those for personal consumption expenditures and personal residential investment expenditures and finds them very disturbing as they have deficits for the last 6 of 7 years. Only in seven other years going back to the 1929's has there been such a situation of finances being in so prone to overspending beyond the incomes. People have been borrowing against their home to spend but that piggybank is running out very quickly and so he sees impact on personal consumption leading to a recession.

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American singer Linda Ronstadt looks back to her roots in the Rio Sonora region of Mexico in this AARP excerpt about her years growing up in that region before her father moved to Tucson, Arizona. Her album Canciones de mi Padre, is the best selling non English music album in the US of all time. Her book is called- Feels Like Home- Song for the Sonoran Borderlands. It looks at the emotional and physical links between the US southwest and Mexico and the hold that this region has on the popular imagination. She says that wherever she has lived, wherever she has travelled, her soul is always winging it down the road, to the land south of the border. A stretch of desert she calls her foothold to the world. Today millions of Mexican Americans share this heritage and this kind of genetic memory. When the Spanish landed in the 1500's there was no border. The land and its physical aspects have not changed through waves of immigration- this story in the AARP magazine shows the agaves in the backdrop of the Huachuca mountains. Apple Music has Ronstadt's album and The Arbolitas, a song of the trees, etched in the Sonoran sunlight.  ...

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Los Angeles Unified School District has voted for a ban on smartphone use in schools starting in January. Governor Newsom is proposing to have a state wide ban in California to support children and parents in school education. Florida and Indiana are Republican led states with state bans on smartphone in schools. New York Governor Kathy Hochul seeks one in 2025. California Governor Newsom says: "When children and teens are in schools they should be focused on studies, not on screens." He has four children in schools. Dr. Murthy says in NYT that children spending more than 3 hours a day on social media were feeling the double the effects of depression and anxiety symptoms. And the actual use is 4.8 hours per day for this age group.