The Hoover City Council is scheduled to consider a $6.75 million contract with Axon Enterprise on Monday, October 12, 2026, to upgrade its Police Department's drone program and body-worn camera video system. Police Chief Clay Morris stated that the contract will expand the department's drone fleet…

I’ve seen several different news reports in recent months covering the western U.S. water crisis. If I recall correctly, the most recent one I saw was a “Climate Central” report presented on the “PBS NewsHour”. A significant part of that report focused on the level of the Colorado River, here again, if I recall correctly, and how far it has dropped in recent times behind both the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams. Colorado River water is shared among the states of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada and Utah in the United States. It also reaches into Mexico. According to Wikipedia: “Large-scale river management began in the early 1900s, with major guidelines established in a series of international and US interstate treaties known as the ‘Law of the River’. The US federal government constructed most of the major dams and aqueducts between 1910 and 1970; the largest, Hoover Dam, was completed in 1935. Numerous water projects have also involved state and local governments. With all of their waters fully allocated, both the Colorado and the neighboring Rio Grande are now considered among the most controlled and litigated river systems in the world. Since 2000, extended drought has conflicted with increasing demands for...