https://www.vineyardwind.com/press-releases/2021/11/19/vineyard-wind-breaks-ground-on-first-in-the-nation-commercial-scale-offshore-windfarm

The event was attended by approximately 200 people, all observing appropriate COVID protocols, including Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Governor Charlie Baker, Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito, Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Kathleen Theoharides, State House Speaker Ron Mariano, Senator Julian Cyr, Vineyard Wind CEO Lars T. Pedersen, Senior Partner & Co-founder of CIP Christian T. Skakkebæk, Head of Iberdrola’s Global Renewables Business, Xabier Viteri, CEO of AVANGRID Dennis V. Arriola, as well as other state and local officials and community advocates.

“Many people have worked extremely hard to make today possible, a day where we turn forward thinking into action,” said Vineyard Wind CEO Lars T. Pedersen.

“Vineyard Wind is on a par with the most ambitious offshore developments globally, including those developed by the Iberdrola Group. Not many countries have the ambition to launch their first project at a scale that will power 400,000 homes and create 3,600 jobs,” said Ignacio Galán, Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola and Chairman of AVANGRID. “With 15 years of offshore wind leadership, Iberdrola and Avangrid are more than ready to help the US benefit from the substantial opportunities of offshore wind including economic investment and job creation. Our offshore developments in New England and North Carolina/Virginia could represent a total investment well above $15 billion in the coming years.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberdrola

Iberdrola (Spanish pronunciation: [iβeɾˈðɾola]) is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 34,000 employees serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (United Kingdom) and a significant part of Avangrid (United States), amongst others. In 2013, the largest shareholder of the company was Qatar Investment Holding.[3] Other significant shareholders included Norges Bank, Kutxabank and Bankia.[4]

https://www.kob.com/news/interior-secretary-seeks-to-remove-derogatory-us-place-names/6306938/?

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Friday declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term and said she is taking steps to remove the term from federal government use and to replace other derogatory place names.

Haaland is ordering a federal panel tasked with naming geographic places to implement procedures to remove what she called racist terms from federal use.

"Our nation's lands and waters should be places to celebrate the outdoors and our shared cultural heritage - not to perpetuate the legacies of oppression," Haaland said in a statement.

https://www.westword.com/news/sherronna-bishop-fbi-raid-lauren-boebert-update-12815156

Bishop is a controversial figure, as evidenced by our October 2020 post about an ABC News report divulging that she'd praised the far-right, neo-fascist group the Proud Boys in a Facebook video in 2019, and showcasing a quote from Boebert during a May 2020 appearance on a "QAnon-friendly podcast," according to ABC. "Everything that I've heard of Q, I hope that this is real," Boebert had said. "Because it only means that America is getting stronger and better, and people are returning to conservative values."

When we reached out to Bishop for comment on this report, she sent us a photo of herself taking a bite out of a large food item and holding a beer at an Oktoberfest event.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/11/19/senator-john-kennedy-build-back-better-bill-authors-biden/

Republican Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy mocked the authors of President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion “Build Back Better” bill on Friday, saying, “if zombies eat brains, they’re safe.”

“This thing is like – when you get rid of the gimmicks – it is like $4.6 trillion. I went broke reading it,” Kennedy continued, as he claimed the bill will result in $2.5 trillion in new taxes and new debt as well as the “federal takeover of daycare, childcare, early childhood education, healthcare, welfare for illegal immigrants.”

https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-united-states-marijuana-connecticut-858f5a6aad788e54810e1d51a56ba8a9

PLYMOUTH, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials believe nearly 40 drug overdoses across the state since July may be linked to marijuana laced with the powerful opioid fentanyl and are warning the public about the potential danger.

State health officials said marijuana seized in Plymouth after an overdose in early October tested positive for fentanyl at the state crime lab.

“This is the first lab confirmed case of marijuana with fentanyl in Connecticut and possibly the first confirmed case in the United States,” Dr. Manisha Juthani, the state’s public health commissioner, said in a statement Thursday.

https://freebeacon.com/politics/kamala-harris-acting-president/

President Joe Biden underwent a colonoscopy on Friday morning and had to "transfer power to the vice president for the brief period of time when he is under anesthesia," according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. That means Kamala Harris became the fourth individual—and first woman of color!—in history to serve as acting president of the United States.

Biden's decision to receive the colonoscopy under anesthesia is a regrettable display of weakness compared with the fortitude and stamina demonstrated by his predecessor, Donald Trump, who reportedly stayed awake during his own colonoscopy in 2019 because "he didn't want Vice President Mike Pence to take over temporarily as commander-in-chief and loathed showing any kind of weakness."

Harris was the least popular (acting) president since Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, when just 24 percent of Americans approved of his job performance. Harris is slightly more popular, with a job approval rating of 28 percent. On the bright side, just 51 percent of Americans disapprove of Harris's job performance, compared with 66 percent who said the same about Nixon in August 1974.

Harris's historic reign of power lasted one hour and 25 minutes.