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Governors Wind Energy Coalition Condo owners’ appeal could be last legal hurdle for offshore wind in Great Lakes Source: By Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network • Posted: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 Briefs mark the latest milestone toward building Lake Erie’s first offshore energy — a resource that might someday supply up to a fifth of Ohio’s electricity. Briefs mark the latest milestone toward building Lake Erie’s first offshore energy — a resource that migh...

Political infrastructure battles are nothing new. The industry booming so much it can’t keep up. Why some Black neighborhoods are struggling. The infrastructure fight is about the future of America: Today’s partisan debate about the meaning of infrastructure is not just about what gets built where, but about what kind of country the US will be in the future. This echoes the debates of roughly 200 years ago, which evoked the same fear of change and loss of status-quo power that many had when...

Old, new, major, minor—here’s our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen. Photo collage: Shutterstock by Everett Collection and Featureflash Photo Agency, Seattle Met composite. A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboats engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. Theyll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. That’s how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in Tugboat Annie. Its no...

FBI Removing Web Shells From Infected Exchange Servers Twitter FBI headquarters in Washington (Photo: Tim Evanson via Flickr/CC) A federal court in Texas gave the FBI the go-ahead to remove malware from on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers at organizations infected in a wave of voluminous zero-day attacks earlier this year, the Department of Justice said on Tuesday. Since Friday, the FBI has been removing web shells, or scripts that allow remote access, from Exchange servers belonging to or...

March 12, 2021 A federal appeals court upheld death-row inmates Robert Lee Walden’s convictions in the rapes of three Tucson woman within weeks of each other in 1991, and the murder of one of his victims. It rejected Walden’s claims that he should have been tried separately for each crime and that police influenced witnesses in the case. (Photo by Tim Evanson/Creative Commons) WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court Friday upheld the convictions of an Arizona death-row inmate for the rapes o...

DC nonprofit Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders, or SMYAL, recently announced that it is opening an extended transitional housing (ETH) program, its third facility for LGBTQ-identifying young people experiencing homelessness. The program will serve young people ages 19-24 for up to six years, offering stable housing and services ranging from case management to mental healthcare to employment and life skills training, all in a trauma-informed, identity-affirming environment. SM...

$113K Embezzlement Leads To Federal Prison Sentence For Former Metro East Elementary School Principal Justice outside the Albert V. Bryan District Courthouse in Alexandria, VA. (Photo: Tim Evanson – Flickr – CC license) Smithton, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Roy Joseph Monti, 54, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced last week to 6 months in federal prison and 6 months of home detention. The former principal of St. John the Baptist Elementary School in Smithton, Illinois, pleaded guilty back in September ...

The Department of Commerce was one of many agencies and companies attacked worldwide by Russia’s APT 29 via SolarWinds Orion servers. Today’s special columnist, Kelvin Coleman of the NCSA, offers some analysis and practical advice for security pros. Tim Evanson Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) Although the true scope of the SolarWinds attack has not been fully uncovered, there’s no doubting the level of sophistication required to carry these att...

Wisconsin Inmate Wins Suit For Sex Reassignment Surgery Judge says the public interest lies in "alleviating needless suffering by those who are dependent on the government for their care." //end headline wrapper ?> Scales of Justice Statue. Photo by Tim Evanson. (CC-BY-SA) A transgender inmate at the Racine Correctional Institution has won a federal case and will be allowed to undergo sexual reassignment surgery. U.S. District Judge  Nicole Campbell’s Eighth Amendment rights under the U.S. ...