While much has been written about high energy inflation for oil and gasoline over the last three years, little has been written about the material inflation in U.S. power prices. In most power regions of the country, more power plant capacity, measured in megawatts, is being decommissioned than is being built, including in regions such […]
Vice President Kamala Harris’s pick of Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the two-term governor of Minnesota, is a clear sign that this election cycle is going to be a get-out-the-base election rather than a coalition-building effort Democrats could have pursued if Harris had chosen Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) as her running mate. Mike Mikus, a Pennsylvania-based […]
In 1988, some of the biggest names in popular music, including Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and George Harrison, all in the latter stages of their respective careers, banded together to form a supergroup by the name of the Traveling Wilburys. They weren’t particularly influential, but they did make some fun records, buttressed by their formidable […]
Heavily populated and low-lying counties of South Carolina and Georgia are bracing for deadly floods as Tropical Storm Debby lumbers across the Southeast. Since making landfall Monday morning in Florida, where it killed five people and left more than a 100,000 households without power, Debby has been downgraded from hurricane status. But the storm remains...
Vice President Harris and running mate Gov. Tim Walz to kick off a battleground state tour with a rally in Philadelphia in their election matchup against Donald Trump and JD Vance.