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Print Continue to article content A provision in the governors budget proposal would override a portion of New York Citys landmark building emissions law, allowing owners to buy renewables from existing wind and solar plants upstate. | J. David Ake/AP Photo Cuomos renewable energy boon to New York City building owners ALBANY — Owners of large New York City buildings have found a potential workaround for a new city law requiring them to cut emissions, thanks to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo’s bud...

Mick LaSalle January 25, 2021Updated: January 25, 2021, 5:56 pm Tom Hanks, who has lots of possible roles at his future disposal. Photo: Rich Fury For the past few years, I’ve been looking forward to the movies that would be made once the Trump era ended. Now that it’s over, I realize that I’ve just been coming up with roles for Tom Hanks. Remember Brett Crozier, the U.S. Navy captain who warned of COVID-19 on his ship? He asked for help from the secretary of the Navy, then w...

The Best Room At... La Quinta Resort & Club Chloe Foussianes © Courtesy La Quinta Resort & Club / David O. Marlow The Bachelorette fans will know the storied hotel for hosting the shows 16th season—but its long been a Hollywood destination. The Bachelorette fans will know the La Quinta Resort & Club for hosting the shows 16th season, but its long been a destination—so much so that the property is, in its estimation, one of only two hotels in the world to have a city named...

Carpet One Floor & Home Announces 2021 Trending Ten List A New Year of flooring innovations embraces classical, trendy, and state-of-the-art products, all available at your local Carpet One Floor & Home cooperative. News provided by Share this article Share this article MANCHESTER, N.H., Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In keeping with its constant trend-setting mission, Carpet One Floor & Home, North Americas largest cooperative of locally owned and operated flooring stores, announces its 2021 Tr...

Share This IDAHO FALLS (KSL.com) — New Year’s Day isn’t just the start of 2021, it’s the first day that thousands upon thousands of pieces of artwork, music and literature from 1925 history enter the world of public domain. If you’re unfamiliar with public domain, it’s a collection of materials that no longer have copyright or intellectual property rights that is now available for the public to expand on. All works — from songs to novels to inventions — eventually end up there ...

Urbanism Without Government Thursday, December 31, 2020 Asking, “But who will build the roads?” is a cliched response to proposals for a more libertarian political system. However, it leads to the interesting historical question of “Who has built the roads in anarchic societies?” Colonial America provides a few examples that answer this question. Perhaps the best known example of anarchism in American history was in Rhode Island, or “Rogue’s Island,” founded by Baptists fleeing Ma...

Unique Plymouth things people should take more notice of Do you know the history behind some of these buildings you walk by everyday? The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Get the latest nostalgia features and photo stories straight to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services ...

President and CEO, New York Power Authority While New York won national acclaim last year for passing landmark climate change legislation, Gil Quiniones has spent nearly a decade pursuing ambitious green energy policies at the helm of the New York Power Authority. Besides running NYPA, a major energy producer and utility largely driven by hydropower, Quiniones has shaped the governor’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative, which aims to harness private markets and technological innovations...

In 1946, their fight to better the lives of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South cost them their jobs. Six years later, it cost them their lives. Today, Harry and Harriette Moore — a pair of Mims educators sometimes called the "first martyrs" of the modern civil rights movement — are still broadly unknown, even in the county they called home. Nearly 70 years after their deaths, that may finally change. The Brevard Federation of Teachers, with help from the Harry T. and Harriette V. Mo...

Washington vs Seattle Week 15: Five Questions with Field Gulls John P. Gilbert (@JohnPGilbertNFL) of Field Gulls Geoff Burke/USA TODAY Sports It’s week 15 of the NFL season and the 6-7 Washington Football Team will be facing a 9-4 Seahawks team at home at FedExField on Sunday. The Seahawks have a much better overall record, but Washington is 4-1 over the last 5 weeks while the Seahawks are 3-2 over the same timeframe. The Seahawks are currently tied with their division-rival Rams fo...