Bradley J. Fikes reports in the N.C. Times: Home control of thermostats would be guaranteed under a new bill introduced in the state Legislature.The bill would forbid the California Building Standards Commission from mandating thermostats that are remote-controlled by anyone other than the building’s resident. Called Senate Bill 1491, the bill by State Sen. Tom McClintock, R-Thousand Oaks, is in draft form. Good ol’ Tom McClintock — my hero. Not much of a surprise that he’d be behind something sensible like this. The California Energy Commission attempted earlier this year to mandate so-called “programmable communicating thermostats” in new and substantially...