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COPENHAGEN, N.Y. - On a good day, a fair wind blows off Lake Ontario, the long-distance transmission lines of New York state are not clogged up and yet another heat wave hasnt pushed the urban utilities to their limits.

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The team includes some Democratic campaign heavy hitters.

A Democrat-linked firm is running a Facebook Ads campaign taking aim at Virginia gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin because he is not endorsed by the NRA.

Retirees may be driving factor in N.C. labor shortage, not federal jobless benefits

Yet — once again — North Carolina’s legislative record on social issues is cited as a concern by the ranking group. “The Tar Heel state had its strongest finish in the history of the America’s Top States for Business study,” CNBC said last week. The cable business news channel cited N.C.’s top-10 ranking in five of the 10 measuring-stick categories: economy (No. 4); workforce (No. 6); access to capital (No. 8); business friendliness (No. 9); and technology and...

Updated June 29 The U.S. grid’s big looming problem: Getting power to where it’s needed The nations already strained power grid is either at a turning point or poised to dash clean-power visions as it crumbles under the new stresses that will be placed upon it. By Will EnglundThe Washington Post Read Article The American grid often features barely adequate equipment on the local level, but the central issue may be chronic congestion. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas says congest...

IAIN Macwhirter makes some salient points in his article on the future of exams and the SQA ("Somerville discovers something worse than grading…

Weekly initial unemployment-insurance benefit claims in North Carolina dropped below 5,000 for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic.North Carolina had 4,919 claims for the week that ended June 5,

Daily initial unemployment benefit claims remained stable this week in North Carolina as the state House moved forward on ending participation in two pivotal federal extended programs. The N.C. Division of Employment Security reported Friday that 1,587 claims were filed Thursday, along with 1,709 on Wednesday and 2,213 on Tuesday. President Joe Biden says the latest jobs report is a sign that the economic recovery is going well. Altogether, there were 10,501 claims filed over the past seven day...