White House Chronicle

News Analysis With a Sense of Humor

  • Home
  • King’s Commentaries
  • Random Features
  • Photos
  • Public Speaker
  • WHC Episodes
  • About WHC
  • Carrying Stations
  • ME/CFS Alert
  • Contact Us

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.

White House Chronicle on Social

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Vimeo
  • YouTube
A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

A Conversation With 2026 on America’s Meaning to the World

Llewellyn King

Come on in, 2026. Welcome. I am glad to see you because your predecessor year was not to my liking. Yes, I know there is always something going on in the world that we wish were not going on. Paul Harvey, the conservative broadcaster, said, “In times like these, it helps to recall that there […]

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Postcard from the Queen Mary 2: Holiday Cruise to the Caribbean

Linda Gasparello

My husband, Llewellyn King, and I chose a Christmas-to-New Year’s cruise on the Queen Mary 2, titled Caribbean Celebration, because there were so many days at sea. We love the feelings of lethargy, languor and disengagement that fill us on those days. But the sea days — and there were three since we left New […]

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

New Year’s Resolutions Are Bad — Slough Off Instead

Llewellyn King

A remarkable autobiography by Anthony Inglis, the English conductor and musicologist, is titled, “Sit Down, Stop Waving Your Arms About!” Quite so. This admonition occurred while Inglis was conducting a musical. Someone sitting in the front row tapped him on the shoulder and told him to sit down and stop waving his arms about. My […]

How Fear Came to America in 2025

How Fear Came to America in 2025

Llewellyn King

Of all the things that happened in 2025 — a year dominated by the presidency of Donald Trump — not the least is that fear came to America. It’s reminiscent of the fear that African Americans knew in the days of the lynch mob, or that Jews have felt from time to time, or that […]

Copyright © 2026 · White House Chronicle Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in