Mr. Cowley about the county's plans for the homeless campus. I was not involved, except to ratify the decisions. There was no conflict of interest.

Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and then-Supervisor Jan Brewer led the way for this tremendous project. They pulled the representatives of the different agencies and governmental entities to the table to get this project moving.

Maricopa County has recently been recognized, by Governing magazine, for its leadership and management skills by being awarded the magazine's highest grade in the country. I believe this homeless campus is an example of the county stepping up and taking action on a longstanding problem. The campus site will provide many solutions to the chronic problems facing the Valley's homeless, despite the New Times aspersions and weak, angry opinions.

Don StapleyChairmanMaricopa BoardRegulators OK Fermi 3, but DTE has no plans to build it

Federal regulators have approved construction of the Fermi 3 nuclear reactor near Monroe, although it may not ever get built.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced Thursday afternoon that after a 6 1/2-year review, it will soon issue a combined license to build and operate the proposed 1,560-megawatt nuclear reactor on Lake Erie. It would go next to Fermi 2, the nuclear plant operating about 30 miles south of Detroit.

There are currently four commercial nuclear reactors in Michigan that generated 28% of the state's electricity in 2013. Fermi 2 is the newest plant, opened in 1988.

DTE Energy operates Fermi 2 and applied for the Fermi 3 license in September 2008. The utility says it has no immediate plans to