Air Conditioning

Some like it hot. Others like it cold. Some are motivated by frugality. Others are motivated by the desire to be toasty at all cost. Let the thermostat wars begin! This week’s arrival of frigid winter weather has revived the annual battles being …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kara Dobrinski doesn’t like to use the air conditioner, because she doesn’t want to pay sky-high electricity bills. That’s why she sipped a big glass of ice water during an interview in her Elmhurst, Calif., home on a hot …

When we first moved here, we had to eek by on a half-time teaching assistant salary. And we did it. Then we came into more money by the way of various grants. And we could breathe easier. And we had another baby. And another. And we became comfortable with the spending of the moneys. We, er, I thought there was no end to the grants. And the grants have ended. So I’m sitting here trying to remember how, exactly, we did this three years ago! We’re at a crossroads, again, here in