Kate’s story

In 2024, my mother Kate Korman was living in the retirement community Sun City West outside Phoenix, Arizona.

That May, she owed $500 to Arizona Public Service, so shortly after her 82nd birthday they cut off her electricity. Temperatures were in the 90s and climbing. Without air conditioning, the heat killed her within a few days.

I am her son. I took this as a tragic mistake at the time, but the following year I learned that this was APS policy … and my mother was not the first to suffer from their neglect.

So I am telling her story.