The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford will host the third annual World Energy Storage Conference Nov. 5 to 8, when scientists, engineers and policymakers from around the world will assemble.
Georgia s General Assembly will reconvene on the second Monday in January of 2023, and for the first time since January 2010, Georgia House Speaker David Ralston will not be presiding
Leaders and legislators working on utility-scale solar development in Pennsylvania are considering both the problems and solutions to solar panel lifespan, disposal, and costs.
There is of course a tendency, for an individual or political party in a position of power to want to try and hang on to that power. What may be more important to remember, as we live in a democratic republic, is that the real power is in the hands of voters and our citizenry . if they actually make USE of that power.
After losing Congress to the GOP during the mid-term election of 1994, Democratic President Bill Clinton reached out to new Speaker Newt Gringrich (R-GA), to craft several pieces of more centrist legislation, including Welfare/Workfare reform, which resulted in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and other programs that Clinton had not championed earlier in his first term. He would be re-elected in 1996, by a wider margin than his first victory.
As I m writing you now, books are being written about the magical political calculus which turned the Red State of Georgia . Blue. And while I congratulate President Biden, Vice President Harris, and Senators Ossoff and Warnock . before you all call the painters, let me share with you a story that almost no one is writing about, but that is also worth hearing . I ll call it the Bubba Factor.
I first met Lauren Bubba McDonald in the mid-1980s. I was a young staffer in the Secretary of State s Office, McDonald was the powerful and highly regarded chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and a favorite of legendary House Speaker and Democrat Thomas B. Murphy of Bremen. Speaker Murphy had been instrumental in the election and two terms of outgoing Gov. Joe Frank Harris and during the election season of 1990, Murphy placed his chips and his influence behind Bubba McDonald running for governor.