My last column touched a nerve with some readers, one of whom denounced me as a â ⦠woke, bitter little man.â Bitter, OK, I do have teenagers at home, but wielding the word âwokeâ as a cudgel reveals more about the author than it does about me. More Headlines
Comedian and radio talk show host weighs in on allegations against Democrat New York governor
Major donors to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo aren t standing up for the governor amid sexual harassment allegations from former aides.
Some of Cuomo s notable donors and their companies have given tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to his campaign and related committees since his second term began in 2015.
Fox News reached out to 12 major Cuomo donors, including billionaires Steven Roth, Carl Icahn, Ken Langone, Ron Perelman and Stephen Ross, about whether they will continue to give to Cuomo, but didn t receive responses by press time.
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The Sun-Times’ Feb. 17 cover story on Chicago’s gas main replacement program failed to recognize the urgency of the plan and its support from regulatory agencies and an independent engineering expert.
Absent from the story was the plain fact that the critical condition of Chicago’s existing gas main system constitutes a safety emergency. The Illinois Commerce Commission ordered an independent engineering study of the system replacement plan in 2020, and one of its primary conclusions was alarming: More than 80% of gas mains in the City of Chicago have less than 15 years of reliable use remaining. The study went so far as to suggest that the timeline should be accelerated to complete the project 10 years sooner than originally suggested.
Updated on February 24, 2021 at 10:40 am
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One of the prospective developers of offshore wind farms miles from the New Jersey coast said it would train members of local labor unions to aid in the construction of its clean energy project.
The agreement between the wind developer Atlantic Shores and the six unions in New Jersey was described as the first of its kind in the United States, where a nascent offshore wind industry is hopeful for groundbreakings in the next few years of the Biden administration.
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