White House Chronicle at EEI 2015: Part One

June 21, 2015 by

Guests: Thomas Fanning, CEO at Southern Company; Barry Worthington, Director of USEA; Rod Kuckro, Reporter at E&E Publishing

Go Green on the High-Tech Bandwagon

Llewellyn King

The newly seated Democrats in the House have lessons to learn, but none more than not to tell people what you’re going to take away from them. That was the great mistake Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made when she laid out her Green New Deal. It sounds like big stick from big government. She said everything should […]

The Deadly Hurt of Loneliness — It Kills

Llewellyn King

For some Valentine’s Day is a day not of love but of profound, despairing loneliness. The candies, cards and flowers from kind people can sometimes serve to open a void of despair, a black hole of unhappiness for them. They are people made lonely through disease. Some lonely for life. And loneliness kills. That is […]

New Tech Bonanza Will Be the Digital Takeover of Cities

Llewellyn King

Benjamin Franklin was the first to deploy street lighting. He put candles in a four-sided, glass case for his lights. The engineering took a giant leap forward in England, when William Murdoch lit his home with coal gas lights in 1792. Today street lighting is taken as a given, like waterborne sewage. But it’s also […]

Want to Be President? Then Learn the Politics Trade

Llewellyn King

Mark Twain once observed that no one would try to play a fiddle in public without some prior instruction in the instrument, but no one had such hesitation when it came to writing. Clearly, many candidates these days think you can run for president without any political experience or with precious little. The unqualified and […]