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R Street: Richard Glick poised to lead FERC to pro-market reforms WASHINGTON (Jan. 21, 2021)—President Joe Biden promoted Commissioner Richard Glick to chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission today. The following quote is from Devin Hartman, the director of Energy and Environmental Policy, at the R Street Institute: “We are encouraged to hear that President Biden has tapped Commissioner Glick to lead its new agenda. Harmonizing the state-FERC nexus and transmission policy refo...

Premium Content Subscriber only Doesnt it seem like a lifetime ago since the world went a bit crazy over the so-called Megxit debacle? No, it was on this day last year:   As Kangaroo Island burned and Ash Barty suffered an unexpected defeat, the media was torn between reporting the palace blowout and crises closer to home. Here in Central Queensland, we were still reeling in the aftermath of the 2019 fires which swept through properties around Cobraball and Byfield.   It was on January...

Unsplash Conover homeschooling mom, Jessica Frierson, remembers last July 4 weekend well. That was when two of her daughters started to complain their throats hurt. Frierson thought it was just the dry air. “One by one, the other children started getting it,” she says. It turned out to be COVID-19. “My 4-year-old and my 8-year-old were pitiful, they would lie on the floor and cry, just sob ." Soon, all six children got the virus. Then her husband was admitted to the hospital with double p...