From backsplashes to barstools, celebrity interior designer Bobby Berk curated several finish and furniture collections for Waterston Central, a new-build community in Gilbert.

Why it matters: If you were in awe of the miracles Berk worked on "Queer Eye," now you can take advantage of his expertise.

What they're saying: It's all about "democratizing design," Berk told Axios.

• New-build communities have a stigma of being soulless, but all homes — even the historic ones — started as new, he says.
• Berk started working with Tri Pointe Homes to share his expert touch across the country at a more accessible price point than a custom design.

How it works: There are 10 themed packages to choose from, including serene Scandinavian, transitional farmhouse and organic modern — all curated by Berk.

• Everything — from lighting to countertops to wall colors — is included in your finish package, and you can add furniture, home accessories and artwork curated specifically for that collection, too.

Zoom in: Homes in Waterston Central, near Ocotillo Road and Val Vista Drive, are selling in the $550,000-$850,000 range.

• Berk was in the Valley Friday to unveil five of the new model homes he designed and merchandised.

Pro tip: If you're not in the market for a new house, you can still shop Berk's collections online for your home improvement projects.

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It's that time of year when Arizonans get to be smug about not losing an hour to daylight saving time.

The big picture: Most of the U.S. switched to daylight saving time yesterday, springing forward their clocks by an hour.

• But Arizona is an anomaly when it comes to changing — or in our case, not changing — our clocks.
• Unlike the rest of the state, the Navajo Nation, which is split between Arizona, New Mexico and Utah, recognizes daylight saving time.
• Hawaii is the only other state that doesn't recognize daylight saving time.

Flashback: Arizona wasn't always an outlier on daylight saving.

• Arizonans joined the rest of the country in changing their clocks with the advent of daylight saving time in 1918. Congress repealed the wartime law a year later.
• President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 imposed DST nationwide as a wartime measure, and the policy ended in 1945.
• Arizona again implemented DST in 1967 after Congress re-established it through the Uniform Time Act.

Zoom in: More daylight means more energy consumption and more sunlight in our notorious hot desert summers, so Arizona's most recent experiment with daylight saving time lasted only a year.

• The Legislature abolished it in March 1968.

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Arizona's electric vehicle charging stations have the nation's second highest average price, per data gathered by Stable Auto, an EV charger software developer.

The big picture: It costs an average of 53 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) to charge an EV at a public charging station in Arizona.

• That's compared with the national average of 45 cents per kWh.

Context: A typical EV with 300 miles of range usually takes about 75-100 kWh to go from empty to full.

The big picture: Charging an electric vehicle costs three times as much at a public charging site in Arizona than in Nebraska — a gap that suggests EV charging companies are still figuring out how to price a top-off.

What's happening: Charging networks such as Electrify America, EVgo and ChargePoint consider a host of factors in setting their charging price — not least the local electricity rate.

• Cheap electricity in the Midwest, for example, may explain the discounts in Nebraska.

Yes, but: The big gap in prices suggests something is amiss, Stable argues.

• "Prices are probably set incorrectly and don't reflect underlying supply-demand," Stable CEO Rohan Puri tells Axios.
• "There is still a lot of price herding in the industry, with players, by and large, setting their prices based on what other nearby chargers have set their prices at."

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🏒 About 100 acres of state trust land in north Phoenix that the Arizona Coyotes are eyeing as a possible arena site was appraised at $68.5 million. (AZcentral)

🏫 A judge dismissed state schools Superintendent Tom Horne's lawsuit challenging the dual language programs used by some districts. (KJZZ)

Women should put aspirin "between your knees," state Senate majority leader Sonny Borrelli (R-Lake Havasu City) said following a press conference where Gov. Katie Hobbs criticized GOP lawmakers for refusing to hear legislation protecting access to contraception. (Arizona Mirror)

🏀 Unranked USC upset UofA in their last game of the regular season, but the Wildcats still clinched the top seed in the Pac-12 tournament. (Arizona Daily Star)

Meet Taki, a 3-year-old pit mix and one of the Arizona Animal Welfare League's longest visitors.

The big picture: Taki has been at the Phoenix shelter for 656 days and AAWL is on a mission to find his fur-ever home this month.

Between the lines: Taki struggles to control his barking when new people approach his kennel, and that has turned off potential adopters, AAWL said.

Yes, but: Volunteers say he's "loving, loyal, one of a kind [and] goofy" once you get to know him.

• He loves hiking, pup cups and cuddles.

Zoom in: Interested adopters can meet Taki at AAWL's main shelter.

• His adoption fee has been sponsored by a donor, so if it's a match, you can take him home for free!