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Hot Hot Hot. It’s no surprise that Southern Californians are seeing their monthly electricity bills surge this summer. As increasing rates have met with increasing temperatures, there have been anecdotal reports that, for some consumers, bills have skyrocketed, even by hundreds of dollars.And Californians are looking for answers. Party All The Time. Education research and ranking site Niche has released its round up of the top party schools in the United States for 2025, and, for the third straight year, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) takes the top spot. LA Law: The Law Makers, Law Breakers and times that there oughta be a law. The Kids These Days: Calls to limit how students use smartphones are driven in part by concerned educators. A Pew Research Center survey released in June found that 1 in 3 middle school teachers and nearly 3 in 4 high school teachers call smartphones a major problem. During school hours in a single day, the average student receives 60 notifications and spends 43 minutes — roughly the length of a classroom period — on their phone