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Keeping the lights on in four western states

July 6, 2024 by

Keeping the lights on (KLO in electricity industry speak) presents a myriad of challenges for a Western electric cooperative that has both urban and rural customers, especially in a time of aberrant weather and energy transition. Host Llewellyn King and Co-host Adam Clayton Powell talk with Lisa Tiffin, senior vice president of energy management at the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, based near Denver.

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The Robots Are Coming — Sooner Than You Think

The Robots Are Coming — Sooner Than You Think

Llewellyn King

The next big thing is robots. They are, you might say, on the move. Within five years, robots will be doing a lot of things that people now do. Simple repetitive work, for example, is doomed. Already, robots weld, bolt and paint cars and trucks. The factory of the future will have very few human […]

The Billionaires Will Rule Down Through the Generations

The Billionaires Will Rule Down Through the Generations

Llewellyn King

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book “Careless People” takes aim at Facebook (parent company Meta) and tells a tale of its potentate, Mark Zuckerberg, as a man who is sought after by the great and the powerful and who lacks social consciousness or real interest in anything beyond himself and his company. Wynn-Williams is the New Zealander who […]

‘Whacking the Cut’: A Different View of the BBC Crisis

‘Whacking the Cut’: A Different View of the BBC Crisis

Llewellyn King

The BBC has fallen on its sword. The director general has resigned and so has the head of news over the splicing of tape of President Donald Trump’s rambling speech on Jan. 6, 2021, which preceded the sacking of the Capitol. The editor and the technician who did the deed for the esteemed BBC program […]

It Isn’t the Stress That Gets To Air Traffic Controllers

It Isn’t the Stress That Gets To Air Traffic Controllers

Llewellyn King

If you don’t know about the stress air traffic controllers are reportedly under, then maybe you are an air traffic controller. The fact is that air traffic controllers love what they do — love it and wouldn’t do anything else. The stress comes with long hours, Federal Aviation Administration bureaucracy and a general lack of […]

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