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Texas Tried to Prepare for Crisis, Ended Up Sowing Confusion Bloomberg 4 days ago Rachel Adams-Heard and Mark Chediak (Bloomberg) -- A few days before an energy crisis hit Texas, the state’s chief energy regulator issued an order to prioritize “human needs.” It sounded like a no-brainer: Divert natural gas supplies to homes and critical businesses and away from everything else deemed a lower priority. Popular Searches But more than 100 emails obtained by Bloomberg reveal...

Whytes to offer Irish & International art Paul Henry RHA, Spring in Wicklow, c. 1926-8. 21 by 20 in. (53.3 by 50.8 cm). Estimate: €150,000 - €200,000. DUBLIN .-Whyte’s spring auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 22 March 2021 153 lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction. One of top lots by value is a striking oil (illustrated abo...

Open 48th Senatorial District seat draws interest from 13 candidates PennLive.com 3/4/2021 Jan Murphy, pennlive.com The field of candidates hoping to fill the open 48th state Senatorial District seat has attracted a lot of interest with multiple candidates seeking the Republican and Democratic nominations as well as now features a third-party candidate. The seat, which opened up as the result of the Jan. 17 death of Dave Arnold, is set to be filled in a special election schedu...

Art and the essence of farming Manchán Magan 7 min read Mary Burke’s exhibition At Home on the Farm avoids bucolic cliche to catch rural functionality Farms don’t feature much in art, except as bucolic backdrops in landscape scenes and pastoral vistas. This makes a new exhibition at Limerick City Gallery of Art all the more intriguing. It’s by the artist Mary Burke w...

Old Slave Mart Museum brings to life dark history of Charleston The building was used as an auction site to sell people of African descent. The Old Slave Mart Museum is a building where people of African descent were sold into slavery in the 1850s and 60s (Source: Raphael James Live 5 News) By Ann McGill and Raphael James | February 23, 2021 at 2:32 PM EST - Updated February 24 at 9:26 AM CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Walk into the Old Slave Mart Museum in downtown and you will be standin...

The figure is a sharp drop from the weekend – but its still roughly comparable to the entire populations of states such as Virginia or New Jersey.

Biden Deems Texas Major Disaster as State Tries to Recovery Bloomberg 2/21/2021 Ari Natter (Bloomberg) -- President Joe Biden approved a major disaster declaration for Texas, which will expedite federal funding for a state wracked with widespread power outages following a rare arctic blast this week. Separately, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved an emergency fuel waiver for the state to prevent gasoline shortages, following blackouts this week that cut power fo...

Texas, the go-it-alone state, is rattled by the failure to keep the lights on Will Englund, Steven Mufson, Dino Grandoni © Thomas Ryan Allison/Bloomberg A hearse parked at a gas station in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday. Rich in both fossil fuels and self-confidence, Texas has long been devoted to its singular power grid, rejecting federal electricity regulation and the kinds of shared high-voltage connections with neighboring states that can be found across most of the countr...

Kerry bashed Donald Trump for "three years wasted" on climate change.

We’re watching people die in real time, with nothing to do but wait for the sun to shine and the temperatures to rise.