By Kennedy Maize “Stimulus” has become the universal political solvent in Washington since the advent of the Obama administration. No matter what narrow special interest, no matter what piece of…
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By Kennedy Maize Congress will make a big mistake if it provides money for accelerated wind power development as part of the Obama administration's new economic stimulus program, according…
By Kennedy Maize A retired Entergy Co. executive, who has loads of hands-on operating experience at nuclear power plants, is a major contender for an open seat on the U.S.…
By Kennedy Maize Spare me the hype about electric cars. Allegedly “green” technology was a theme at the latest Detroit auto show, as chronicled by the New York Times last…
By Kennedy Maize Can you spell “poser?” Here’s my offering: “Eric Massa (D-N.Y.)” Massa, newly elected Congressman from New York’s 29th district (that’s Corning, the glass folks), showed up in…
By Kennedy Maize At a pleasant Christmas dinner with friends last week, a smart diner posed a question: when should the government or the market have known that the U.S.…
By Kennedy Maize Some of my friends on the left have been lamenting the Cabinet choices of president-elect Barack Obama. One of them wrote in an email recently, “As the…
By Kennedy Maize Here’s an interesting new wrinkle on wind power, from a researcher at the University of Illinois. According to Somnath Baidya Roy, turbulence from large wind farms can…
By Kennedy Maize The Obama administration has picked Steven Chu, currently the director of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, to be secretary of energy. The selection was…
By Kennedy Maize It's time for the latest round of the name game, this time focusing on who President Elect Obama will pick to head the Department of Energy. Clearly,…