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6:24 Democratic Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan delivered his state-of-the-county address earlier this week. He spoke with WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne about the start of a basic income pilot program as well as initiatives under his Green New Deal. Ryan’s address included two main themes. “The first is building on all the resilience work that we did in the county with food delivery, childcare support, rent support, small business support, to add a new and really pretty innovative addition to that, which is a pilot program of universal basic income, essentially provid...

Article content The battle over a power line in Maine features a television advertisement depicting felled pine trees in the wooded U.S. state paired with noir images of a corporate tower in modern Bilbao, near the Guggenheim art museum. A voiceover declares: “A good deal for Spain, and a bad deal for Maine.” The Spanish utility company Iberdrola S.A.’s political action committee has spent almost US$15 million to promote its US$950 million New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) electric transmission project which would run for more than 230 kilometres. Yet last month opponents won a p...

Trending: Governments Hope To Take Control Of News Facebook said on Wednesday that it is preventing people inside Australia from accessing news stories on its platform. Facebook users elsewhere will not be able to view or share news stories from Australian outlets. The moves are a response to proposed legislation that would force social media platforms to pay Australian news organizations for links shared on its sites. GOP Slap Fight With MAGA Just Getting Started Following Trump's call for Republicans to move on from McConnell, POLITICO on Wednesday reached out to all 16 Republican senators ...

Power firm garners 1,000 consumer authority complaints over missing reimbursements  The authority says it has received more complaints about Fi-Nergy Voima than any other independent electricity company. Kati Atrell has struggled to claw back reimbursements owed to her by Fi-Nergy for months. Image: Kimmo Gustafsson / Yle Finland's consumer authority receives more consumer complaints about electricity firm Fi-Nergy Voima than any other energy company, according to Jukka Kaakkola, leading expert at the Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority (KKV). Last year, the authority received nea...

By Dominic McKenzie Kingston SHARE There’s some special work happening at a special location in Kingston. Gil Verrelli calls the city home. They graduated from a program coordinated by local group Citizens for Local Power, training locals for jobs in green energy. What You Need To Know Gil Verrelli is a graduate of the Citizens for Local Power Green Jobs apprenticeship program in Kingston They're working on renovating an old house on the Pine Street African Burial Ground and turning it into a co...