If you want to be in Bruce Springsteen’s good graces, you’ve got to get with his friends—and recognize which people he doesn’t exactly care for. Bruce cover act the B Street Band learned that the hard way earlier this month, after booking one of Donald Trump’s inaugural balls. (For the record, outspoken liberal Springsteen thinks Trump is a “moron.”)
The outcry was so swift and vehement—and the real Springsteen’s unspoken disappointment, presumably, was so monumental—that just days later, the Springsteen tribute band dropped out of the ball …
Springsteen has yet to comment publicly on the whole debacle. He has, however, quietly and privately shown once again where his loyalties lie—by reportedly playing a secret concert in the White House January 12 for the Obamas and a few hundred of their luckiest staffers.
Hawaii has the most aggressive renewable energy targets in the nation, aiming for its utilities to get 100 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2045.
Now advocates want to extend that goal to the transportation sector to urge all forms of ground transportation to fuel up using renewable sources by 2045.
- Quite the public service here … thanks, Alejandro:
- Good … except he should be locked up for life:
A federal appeals court has affirmed the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship in connection with the deadliest U.S. mine disaster in four decades.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals handed down the opinion Thursday, saying it found no reversible error in trial rulings.