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Jefferson: People were weeping - Rebuilding trust after winter storm a tall order for CPS Energy and CEO Paula Gold-Williams
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People cross Houston Street Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 as snow grips the city for the second time in a week, the result of an arctic air mass that sent temperatures plummeting and resulted in rolling blackouts. At one point about 1/3 of all CPS Energy customers were without electricity.William Luther, Staff / William LutherShow MoreShow Less
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CPS CEO Paula Gold Williams speaks during a CPS Energy public input meeting on the city s climate action and adaptation plan that aspires San Antonio tp by carbon-neutral by 2050.Robin Jerstad, Photo CorrespondentShow MoreShow Less
Black Lives Matter backs Amazon union push in Alabama
JOSEPH PISANI, AP Retail Writer
March 12, 2021
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021 file photo ,Michael Foster of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union holds a sign outside an Amazon facility where labor is trying to organize workers in Bessemer, Ala. Organizers trying to form the first union at an Amazon warehouse are getting support from another big name: Black Lives Matter. The group plans to hold an event Saturday, March 13, 2021 near the warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama, making it the latest high-profile supporter of the union push, which is the biggest in Amazon s nearly 30-year history.Jay Reeves/AP
Editorial: Voting access, and our democracy, under assault
Express-News Editorial Board
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President Donald Trump speaks to his supporters at the Save America Rally on Jan. 6 before the insurrection. Another assault on democracy is occurring with a raft of voter restriction laws in states across the nation.Yuri Gripas /TNS
The storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was a violent, bloody and deadly assault on democracy. Not a merely symbolic one as the insurrectionists breached and desecrated “The People’s House,” but a physical assault on voting and free elections.
Propelled by former President Donald Trump’s lie that he’d beaten Joe Biden in the presidential election, the insurrectionists attempted to stop the counting and certification of the Electoral College vote. Those ballots were in wooden boxes on the Senate floor.