Phoenix, AZ

I went to but some parts for my car from one of my favorite places. Imagine my surprise when I went to checkout and was told they no longer ship to Arizona.

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Restaurants sue to keep $18 AZ minimum wage measure off the November ballot

The Arizona Restaurant Association is suing to block a ballot initiative that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $18, claiming the union-backed group behind it failed to gather enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. 

The political committee Raise the Wage AZ has been gathering signatures for a ballot measure called the “One Fair Wage Act” since November 2022. The measure would raise the state minimum wage from $14.35 to $18 per hour, then increase it annually to address inflation.

I decided to start up a regional mastodon server for Phoenix called phx.pub - if that seems like your kind of thing, feel free to join :)

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I was wondering what was burning last night. So much smoke it didn't look like a small structure fire.

I try not to be too much of a prepper but yesterday's outage got me thinking things could turn real bad real fast. Will hotels fill up? What about pets? When do you make the call and abandon your place in search of cool?

Curious if others have thought about this or gone as far as to make a plan.

At 16:07, and here's the link if you want to see our completely made up interpretation of the numbers: https://phoenix.municipal.codes/ZO/702

Always interesting when local reddit posts come back around to being news stories, that invariably someone will share back to reddit.