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As temperatures plummeted to record-breaking lows Monday, the Omaha Public Power District said it got an emergency order from Southwest Power Pool to implement planned outages. “We have never been in this kind of situation,” OPPD President and CEO Tim Burke said. Southwest Power Pool manages the grid for OPPD, NPPD, LES in Lincoln and …

Recently, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a plan to improve health care in rural America. In a statement posted on his campaign website, he wrote, “Rural Americans are getting sicker and dying younger than people in cities.” He is right, but his plan misses the mark. Buttigieg wants to spend billions of taxpayer dollars …

POSCO Engineering & Construction (E&C) said Monday that it has succeeded in developing concrete conveying pipes and concrete pumping technology in collaboration with four South Korean SMEs and researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering Department of Myongji University. Conveying pipes capable of withstanding high pressure and advanced pumping technology are necessary to lift concrete to …

President Trump recently signed an executive order that aims to force hospitals, doctors, and insurers to be more transparent about their prices. Currently, those prices are negotiated and set in secret. Consumers have no idea what their care will cost and so are unable to shop around for the best deal. But if health care …

On Thursday, June 13, California lawmakers approved a $215 billion state budget, which Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign. Included in the budget are several health care reforms whose mammoth cost the state may soon regret. Paramount among them is the expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program to cover low-income undocumented immigrants up …