Basically, Texas has its own grid to avoid dealing with — you guessed it — the feds. The Texas grid is called ERCOT, and it is run by an agency of the same name — the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
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Despite attempts to rein in police union contracts in New Jersey, costly provisions remain common, an unprecedented analysis by the Asbury Park Press and ProPublica found. The news outlets identified contract clauses throughout the state that protect officer payouts that cost the public hundreds of millions of dollars.
The ruminative documentary “All Light, Everywhere” explores how police body cams and aerial surveillance are bringing Big Brother to Baltimore.
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vanka Trump and Jared Kushner disclosed receiving between $23,791,645 and $120,676,949 in combined outside income in their final financial disclosure reports.
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The Cuomo administration's failure to make public deaths of nursing home residents who perished in hospitals has for almost a year enraged local and national lawmakers who have accused the administration of hiding the true death toll to avoid accountability.
All the debates over ‘fintech,’ once you get beyond the scams and the hype, are really a debate about the future of money. The recent rise of ‘fintech’ is just the latest saga in a centuries-old struggle between democratic accountability & unaccountable private power, with the latter hiding behind promises of technological innovation.
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Don't confuse the avowed concerns of these CEOs about democracy with democracy itself. They aren't answerable to democracy. At most, they're answerable to big shareholders and institutional investors who don't give a fig as long as profits keep rolling in.
Doses should be flowing. But instead, states are complaining of vaccine shortages. And Team Biden officials don’t know exactly what the holdup is.
Until 1968 the min wage not only kept pace w/ inflation, it rose w/ productivity growth. That means that as workers produced more goods/services min wage earners could buy more. The last 50+ yrs, the min wage hasn't even kept pace w/ inflation.
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"He's a bottomless pit of need … he needs to replenish it every single day and would love it if he could just be in front of a geyser of attention if he could, [but] I think thimblefuls of attention won't be enough for him."
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Biden’s plan would shovel billions of dollars to private health insurers … which could further boost insurers’ skyrocketing profits.
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Senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz should be afraid. Very afraid. There's a very real possibility that they might soon find themselves on the business end of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
41 Democrats abandoned Bernie Sanders and joined with Mitch McConnell to advance a $740 Billion Pentagon bill ... Democratic senators in fact provided the majority of the votes for the measure that lets the defense bill proceed without a vote on the $2,000 checks."
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… The company was chosen without the competitive solicitation process that state law normally requires for such large contracts. Both no-bid COVID contracts are listed in the state’s contract database as among Florida’s numerous “emergency purchases” per an emergency executive order from Republican DeSantis that allows state agencies to suspend normal purchasing regulations.
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Briahna Joy Gray on why forcing Pelosi into a floor vote is one important part of a broader strategy for building progressive power.
Businesses at properties owned by the Trump Organization and Kushner Cos. benefited from over 25 PPP loans worth $3.65 million, a new report says.
Rittenhouse was aided by Christian websites fundraising for his defense, and … assistance was also offered by My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell and '80s-era child actor Ricky Schroder
The markups have resulted in hospital profits skyrocketing by 411% from 1999 to 2017, hitting a record $88 billion. The rise in charges coincides with growing hospital mergers and acquisitions by large systems. The result is increased market consolidation, which leads to higher profits and increased charges, not savings for patients as hospital systems often claim.
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Ugland House, five stories tall and home to 19,000 companies, is "the poster child for offshore tax haven abuses"
Ugland House, five stories tall and home to 19,000 companies, is "the poster child for offshore tax haven abuses"