11/18/21 Grid Resilience Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments As illustrated this summer, extreme-weather events and wildfires can put power grids under pressure and threaten their ability to produce reliable power. For decades, consumers have relied on electricity delivered across long distances from large, centralized power plants. But what if a neighborhood, military installation or hospital Read More >

11/18/21 Grid Resilience Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments The transition to sustainable energy sources like wind and solar and the introduction of electric vehicles and heat pumps are putting a growing strain on our electricity distribution networks. To prevent overloading and reinforcing the network, which is costly and time-consuming, regulators are increasingly looking to Read More >

11/19/21 Our Picks Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  0 California, Arizona and Nevada in Talks on New Plan to Save Colorado River Water  (Ian James, Los Angeles Times) Two and a half years after signing a deal aimed at averting a damaging crisis along the Colorado River, water officials from California, Arizona and Nevada are discussing plans Read More >

I’m a huge fan of what movies and TV seem to think goes on in my profession, mostly so I can laugh or comment out loud how absolutely wrong most of what these people seem to think happens in our streets and alleys. It’s gotten so bad recently that my girlfriend refuses to watch TV Read More >

11/17/21 China Watch Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are renewing a push to pass legislation that would boost U.S. competition with China, amid rising concerns about the global supply chain. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday the long-stalled U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA) would be added to the National Read More >

The consent decree, one of the first in the country enacted by a state official, is expected to last approximately five years

KENOSHA, Wis. — Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger who is prosecuting Kyle Rittenhouse was rightfully slammed by critics watching the trial after the attorney claimed during closing arguments that Rittenhouse’s rifle negated his right to self-defense. Binger addressed the jury on Monday in his summation and was making a last-ditch effort to convince jurors that Read More >

11/16/21 Supply Chain Security Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments By now the impacts of supply chain disruption are becoming all too familiar: shortages, inflation, factory closures, goods waiting at ports to be unloaded. All these impacts are serious enough, but another more-hidden concern lurks just beneath the surface: the impact of supply chain failure Read More >

11/15/21 Extremism Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments A new study published in Frontiers in Psychology has brought us closer to understanding what drives true believers to exhibit extreme behavior. The findings show that learning more about how and why an individual’s identity can fuse with a cause may help in the fight against radicalization. read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — The Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) sadly reports the death of one of their officers from an apparent suicide outside the department’s east division substation on Saturday afternoon. Detectives are actively investigating while the coroner’s office is working to finalize a cause of death. Nevertheless, authorities said they are “heartbroken” as Read More >