Life for federal judges in the northern climes has certainly gotten more interesting since the Trump administration came to town. Here, we learn that one of Alaska’s U.S. District judges, Sharon Gleason, handed down the third legal setback to Trump’s energy and environmental policies in less than a week. (more…)
Early last week, the final load of coal entered the Navajo Generating Station by train; the electric companies that own the coal plant voted in 2017 to close it, citing lower prices from competitive resources. (more…)
Today’s “Morning Edition” on NPR featured an interview with former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh regarding his candidacy for the 2020 GOP presidential nomination. (more…)
Here’s an article that begins:
The US tourism business is in trouble — and President Trump may be to blame. America’s share of international tourism has dropped 16% in March, compared to the same month in 2016, according to Foursquare data released Wednesday. …. Meanwhile, tourism in the rest of the world has increased 6% year-over-year during the same period. (more…)
As the power utilities fight for their lives, given the defection of customers due to rooftop solar, they look to electric vehicles to replace all that load. Besides electricity generation itself, transportation is the biggest energy consumer in the U.S., and well over 90% of it currently derives from petroleum, making this a lush target. (more…)
Here’s a chat I’m having with a friend that I thought I’d publish.
Friend: Most unfortunately, none of the Democratic candidates offered up so far has an ice cube’s chance in hell of beating Donald Trump.
Trump made up those ‘high-level’ Chinese trade-talk calls to boost markets, aides admit. (more…)
Who doesn’t love a good laugh?
Who doesn’t have deep respect for true talent in comedy and writing?
Simply fabulous.
(Note the name of the paper.) Ha!
Does anybody have even a conceivable explanation for this? Obviously, Trump wants to be the news, every minute of every day, but isn’t this lunacy beyond description? He’s in a class by himself when it comes to pandering to undereducated white Americans by inflicting horrible pain on large groups of innocent people, but who in blazes wants to see our troops punished? (more…)
“President Trump might’ve pardoned him, but those who had families and communities destroyed by his unlawful tactics have not,” one advocate said. (more…)
