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The Lovettsville chapter of the Loudoun Transmission Line Alliance hosted a community meeting May 1 to coordinate fierce opposition to NextEra Energy’s proposed transmission lines through western Loudoun and call
Loudoun County will participate in the application process as Dominion Energy seeks permission to build transmission lines along Route 7 in eastern Loudoun. The county’s participation aims to give Loudoun
A proposed 500 kilovolt transmission line project that would connect NextEra Energy’s planned Woodside substation to Dominion Energy’s Aspen substation was approved by the PJM board of managers Dec. 11.
Editor: Careful on Rt. 7, you may get crushed and run over. There is a steamroller—some machine out of Mad Max—about to run over everyone along Rt. 7. Dominion Power
May 5, 1867 Nellie Bly, American journalist, was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran to Irish immigrants in Pennsylvania. Born in Cochran Mill’s, an area named for her father Michael who began as a mill laborer and ended up owning the mill. Bly once faked insanity to expose inhumane practices in the Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. In doing so she spawned a new form of “investigative” journalism. It was custom at the time for female writers to use pen names and Cochran’s first editor suggested Nelly Bly from the Stephen Foster song. At age 25, she took a trip around the world...