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‘Maybe the way I’ve saved people’s lives is by giving people hope’: Why this longtime Dallas priest won’t quit Even his beloved birds and piles of junk can’t ease 86-year-old Father Tim into retirement — and that’s good news to the many who love this champion of the needy. The Rev. Timothy Gollob stands Tuesday in the Oak Cliff backyard where he keeps a trove of his collected treasures and trinkets. Father Tim officially retired in June after half a century’s service at Holy C...

Follow Us We are first in your inbox with the most important news in the industry―keeping you smarter and one-step ahead in this ever-changing and competitive market.Start your free subscription Vistra Backs Illinois Transition Measure to Keep At-Risk Coal Plants Online Through 2025 Bleeding financially from underperforming and legally burdened coal generation in downstate Illinois and elsewhere, Vistra, the nation’s largest competitive generator, has renewed its call for passage of th...

Published: 8 Apr 2021, 11:48 By: Andy Colthorpe A proposed large-scale battery storage project in Morro Bay, California that Vistra Energy is planning to build. Image: Vistra. US power generation holding company Vistra has renewed its call for legislation designed to assist the transition from coal to renewable energy in the US state of Illinois. The call for the introduction of the Illinois Coal to Solar and Energy Storage Act comes as Vistra announced the early closure of the 1G...

Joppa Power Plant to close by September 2022, three years sooner than first announced Joppa power plant to close in September 2022 By Clayton Hester | April 6, 2021 at 10:33 AM CDT - Updated April 6 at 12:21 PM METROPOLIS, Ill. (KFVS) - Vistra and its subsidiary, Electric Energy, Inc., has announced that the Joppa Power Plant will be retired by Sept. 1, 2022. This will be three years earlier than first announced, and is a part of an agreement meant to settle a complaint by the Sierra Club ...

They remember a different time in Dallas, when, for about two decades, “residents had a string of thoughtful, sincere and righteously angry advocates who served on their City Council.” Former Mayor Laura Miller stopped over a dozen coal plants from being built during the administration of Gov. Rick Perry and implemented the first green procurement ordinance in the region. Former City Council member Angela Hunt hunted down waste, corruption and “staff shenanigans.” Then, there were forme...

GINGER GAIRDNER: A rainbow of hope to lift our spirits by Brian Cunningham © Supplied by DCT Media A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to be asked to support an initiative led by Scottish growers of plants, on behalf of the whole of Scotland’s horticultural industry. One year on from when reality dawned on the affect this virus was going to have on us all, a 20m long floral rainbow of hope featuring 12,000 primulas was created on the historic Mound of Edinburgh’s Old Town, as part ...

Grove Presbyterian and other Harford County churches will have in-person Easter services this weekend with COVID-19 precautions.

Good company for rent! published : 2 Apr 2021 at 04:00 42 New kinds of work are created in society all the time, but few are as intriguing or bizarre as being a rent-a-person. To be very clear, this job only requires the person to accompany their client for a portion of the day and does not entail any kind of romance or physical contact. Guru has spotted three individuals engaging in such work and asked for their views on being a rent-a-person. Purin Donsri 22-year-old communication arts studen...

Detail from "Jonah Preaches to the Ninevites (Jon. 3:1-10)" by Gustave Doré (Wikipedia) Perhaps no character or characters in the Bible—other than the Pharisees—is held in lower esteem in the thought of Pope Francis than the Reluctant Prophet Jonah. And, since the readings from the Old Testament for daily Mass in the early days of October came from the Book of Jonah, it should come as no surprise His Holiness took the opportunity to offer variations on a theme he offered four years ago—a...