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Vol. 79 No. 4
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‘The Bus’ rolls by to spread Super Bowl hype
January 26, 2023
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City prepared to host Super Bowl LVII BY JOE MCHUGH
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Glendale Star Staff Writer
ith Super Bowl LVII ready to make its way to Glendale, the world’s eye will be looking squarely at the city and how it responds. City Manager Kevin Phelps said the city is ready. Possibly the most important time of the year for the city, it will have ample opportunity to show everything it has to offer to those who have never seen it. “We want to be a household name,” Phelps said. “The Super Bowl is a great economic opportunity to kind of showcase the community on a really grand scale.” The Super Bowl has made its way to
The Super Bowl making its way out to Glendale presents plenty of opportunities for the city to put its name out there as a place to be. (File photo)
Glendale three times in the last 15 years, and 2023 marks the second time the Super Bowl has been played in State Farm
Stadium in the last decade. 2015’s game is still the most watched and highest-rated SEE SUPER BOWL PAGE 11
Harris visits West Valley to applaud renewable energy project BY JORDAN ROGERS
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Glendale Star Managing Editor
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ice President Kamala Harris visited Tonopah on Jan. 19 for the groundbreaking of a new renewable energy project called Ten West Link. Ten West Link is a planned energy infrastructure project that will connect electrical substations in Tonopah and Blythe, California. According to the project’s website, it spans 125 miles and is expected to be completed and operational by the end of 2023. “You rely on the power delivered by our nation’s network of transmission lines and that network is in desperate need of an upgrade,” Harris said. “America is at the
start of an historic transition away from fossil fuel plants that pollute our communities and toward cleaner and safer energy sources.” The new 500kV power line will improve transmission system efficiency and reliability while facilitating the development of new renewable energy and energy storage resources in Arizona and California. This will help both states achieve their renewable energy standards and carbon reduction goals. “This electricity will be clean electricity,” Harris said. “Solar panels and wind turbines do not produce toxic fumes that poison our air or dangerous chemicals that poison our water. The energy delivered by
these lines will not just be cleaner, it will also be cheaper. “On average, clean electricity is less expensive than electricity generated from traditional sources. And more transition to transmission lines means more clean energy for our communities, and that means more money in the pocket of the American people.” This project, she said, ties in to better positioning the state and will serve as a model to the rest of the country on how to better handle the climate change crisis. “For far too long, our nation has not acted with the urgency the climate crisis de-
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