Hide Your Stove, Hide Your Thermostat!

The Biden administration is cracking down on water heaters by imposing greater efficiency standards.

Consumers will have to shovel out thousands of dollars more to install a heat pump water heater rather than a conventional storage water heater in order to fall in line with new standards released on Friday by the Department of Energy.
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Florida leaders reacted to the news of Vice President Kamala Harris visiting Florida Friday prior to her speech about Florida’s new African American school standards.

Florida Republican Party Chairman Christian Ziegler said Harris’s visit to Florida is another “political stunt” and wants other states to join Florida by telling the Biden Administration to “go pound sand.”
Harris spoke in Jacksonville on Friday afternoon.
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Bonita Springs City Council discussed Wednesday implementing a policy that would allow removal of traffic fatality memorials in public rights of way after six months.

City Councilor Fred Forbes brought the first discussion of these memorials to a meeting in May. The city began receiving emails from residents with safety concerns that memorials are too close to public roadways and sidewalks while not being well-maintained.