Good afternoon. It's Saturday, April. 20, and we're covering New York cancelling three major offshore wind projects, teacher wins lawsuit, NBA playoffs, and much more. First time reading? Sign up here. | | American Fact of the Day! | Washington - The highest point in Washington is Mount Rainier: The mountain stands at an elevation of 14,411 feet (4,392 meters), and is covered in glaciers and snowfields. It is an active volcano, and has the potential to erupt again in the future. Mount Rainier is a popular destination for climbers, hikers, and other outdoor enthusiasts, who come to admire its natural beauty and challenge themselves on its steep slopes. The mountain is also an important source of drinking water for the surrounding region. |
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| | Breaking Updates | | New York Cancels Three Major Offshore Wind Projects, Joe Biden Hardest Hit | Joe Biden's green energy plans just took another hit as three large New York offshore wind projects were scrapped Friday after the state was unable to reach "final agreements" with General Electric despite the fact that the three proposed developments had received provisional awards in October 2023.
NYSERDA, the state authority in charge of the deals, announced Friday that no final agreements could be reached with the three projects that received provisional awards in October 2023. Those bids were all linked to major supply chain investments by General Electric and a larger turbine it planned to build that was aimed at boosting the region's renewable energy portfolio.
[The cancellation is] a major hit to the industry in the state and the nation. The decision is another setback to New York's aspirations to achieve 70 percent renewable energy by 2030 and be a hub for the nascent industry in the United States. It will also be another challenge for President Joe Biden's already likely out-of-reach 30 gigawatt goal for offshore wind by 2030.
Such highly-hyped offshore projects have been running into more headwinds as of late: The offshore wind industry is stumbling despite the availability of generous tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden's signature climate bill. Inflation, higher borrowing costs and logistical problems are gumming up projects and contracts that appeared lucrative and viable around the time that Biden signed the IRA into law. | Read more updates here |
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| | Teacher Wins Lawsuit After Being Fired for Not Giving Unearned Grades, Now Running for School Board | After winning a significant legal battle against her former employer for wrongful termination, a former elementary school teacher in Henry County, Georgia, is setting her sights on a new goal: a seat on the school board. Sheri Mimbs was fired from Cotton Indian Elementary School in 2017 for refusing to give passing grades even if students had not earned them.
She says back in 2017 an assistant principal wrote a note to her telling her not to give students grades less than 60, even if they didn't turn in any work. "I went to the assistant principal and she was like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You need to change those grades. Kids can't have less than a 60,'" Mimbs described. Mimbs says after she complained, her contract wasn't renewed. She sued and won. "I knew I was being retaliated against," she said.
The jury ordered the district to pay her six figures in monetary damages for retaliation. It has to pay her attorney's fees and most importantly it had to reverse her non-renewal. She says that non-renewal was keeping her from getting teaching jobs. Now after the court victory, Mimbs hopes to get a victory at the polls.
Teacher and whistleblower Donna Telles says the grades of an estimated 50 students from Vista Grande and Casa Grande high schools will be changed to 'P' or passing. Telles, who teaches at Vista Grande High School and serves as a union representative, says teachers are being asked to change the grades against their will. "Teachers are being required to do things that they know are not right. They're afraid of not doing it for fear of being termed insubordinate and terminated."
Unfortunately, it appears many who are in positions of leadership in the school system are more concerned about making their schools look good than they are about actually making sure they are providing the level of education necessary to equip kids for adulthood. | Read more updates here |
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| | American Sports & Culture
|  | Pete Carroll visits University of Washington practice | Previously, it was Bill Belichick. |
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|  | Fundamentals becoming relics of the past in MLB — and it may only get worse | Not a day passes without reading the woeful tales of MLB games from devotees throughout the continent and beyond of games risked or lost to the inability or unwillingness to do the least in service… |
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|  | NBA playoffs: Nuggets work over Lakers to pick up where they left off from last year | The Lakers have now lost nine straight games to the Nuggets. |
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| | American Business & Markets
|  | I Own a Small Business: Here's How Much Money I Made in My First Year | Chris Stephens spent several years as a data engineer, working in everything from municipal government to Silicon Valley startups. Like many in the industry, Stephens got burned out over the pandemic.... |
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|  | 'The Tortured Poets Department' will expand Taylor Swift's reach as a businesswoman | What's next for Taylor Swift's remarkable achievements as a businessperson, from her billion-dollar tours to strategic merchandising and successful concert film releases? |
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|  | Barbara Corcoran: 8 Strategies You Can Learn From Entrepreneurs for Financial Success | Barbara Corcoran is an expert on entrepreneurship. The self-made millionaire and star of Shark Tank has spent a lifetime learning how to succeed in business. |
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| | American Politics | |  | Lawmakers reauthorize US spying law that critics claim expands the government's surveillance of Americans | Blaze Media | Lawmakers recently passed legislation early Saturday that will authorize and expand Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. |
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|  | Ultra Woke Google Claims Company Is Not Place to 'Debate Politics' After Firing Anti-Israel Radicals | Google CEO Sundar Pichai has taken a comical stance against using the ultra woke company's offices for political debates and protests after terminating 28 employees who participated in anti-Israel sit-ins at various Google locations. |
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|  | 'Nothing more backwards' than US funding Ukraine border security but not our own, conservatives say | The House of Representatives passed a $60 billion foreign aid package Saturday for Ukraine, and some Republicans took issue the bill did not address the southern border. |
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