.@lumaenergypr CEO Wayne Stensby to @arelisrhdz /WAPO: “This really isn’t about me or…
our executives…This is about the broader transformation & what I understand is people’s frustration with what is a very fragile electricity system in Puerto Rico.” washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11…
“By hiring Luma, officials were betting the private sector could come up with solutions where govt had for decades failed. What they discovered, however, was a private contractor with its own problems, said Cathy Kunkel, energy program manager for the nonprofit group Cambio P.R.”
“In many places in the United States, power grids are operated by publicly traded companies, which are required to disclose their finances in quarterly earnings statements, and reveal compensation for top executives annually. Chief executives typically earn millions a year.”
“Lawmakers said they intend to make the documents Luma provided public after ensuring personal information, such as addresses and phone numbers, is redacted. Meanwhile, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi has said he has no plans to cancel Luma’s contract.”
The deer has been caught. Waiting to find out if it’s ok 🤞
Update: The deer ran through the front door and up the escalator headed toward the emergency room but was take down by a police officer. I’m told they plan to charge the deer with “going buck wild.” It’s a felony.
The Louisiana board of pardons unanimously voted today “to pardon Homer Plessy, the namesake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1896 “separate but equal” ruling affirming state segregation laws.”apnews.com/article/9db9e3…
“The state Board of Pardon’s unanimous decision to clear the Creole man’s record of a conviction for refusing to leave a whites-only train car in New Orleans now goes to Gov. John Bel Edwards, who has final say over the pardon.” apnews.com/article/9db9e3…
“Plessy was arrested in 1892 after boarding the train car as part of a civil rights’ group’s efforts to challenge a state law that mandated segregated seating…”apnews.com/article/9db9e3…
It appears as though the blonde lady with long hair, sitting next to the defense attorney, wanted to bury her face in her hands, when she heard him say what he said, but she caught herself…
This guy was the public information officer before he became sheriff of Pierce County, near Seattle. Now, the local prosecutor is essentially saying the sheriff himself can’t be trusted to tell to the truth.
“The committee determined Sheriff Troyer will be added to the list of recurring witnesses with potential impeachment information,” Faber said in an email.”
Background: “An investigation headed by former U.S. Attorney Brian Moran has found Pierce Co. Sheriff Ed Troyer violated policies on bias-free policing & other professional standards during a controversial January encounter with a Black newspaper carrier.” seattletimes.com/seattle-news/p…
🪡 Here’s the face of a victorious fighter who’s got more fights in him. When we read that Alejandro Castro spent 299 days in an Oregon hospital battling Covid 19, & then the complications from it, we wanted to know more.
Today, we spent the day with him & his family at their home, 45 minutes outside of Portland. What we didn’t know was the degree to which he fought in the hospital and how that part of the story makes his recovery amazing & inspiring.
1 of his nurses, Levi Cole: “Alex had the heart of a lion. He fought like an animal & he made it out of here against every possible odd…it’s impossible for me to sort of quantify the level of pain & the amount of suffering his family & he went through for him to make it out…”