"Power Corrupts" "Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist" "Tesla: Inventor of the Modern" Focused on energy and agricultural entrepreneurs.
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I found a $1 million contribution to a pro-Jon Husted Super PAC from a donor with a weirdly misspelled name & started digging. What I found is a 501(c)(4) that was secretly funded by FirstEnergy to support Sherrod Brown's GOP opponent Jim Renacci in 2018 energyandpolicy.org/pro-hust…
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Utilities and their trade groups have given a record $12.7 million to partisan state political groups in 2026, with the pre-election fourth quarter still to come.
The 2025–26 cycle is also a record: $23.7M, up from $18.9M last cycle.
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Former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Mike Dowling, accused of orchestrating one of the most extensive public corruption schemes in Ohio history, have been granted extraordinary privacy protections in their Summit County case. cleveland.com/news/2025/10/t…
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BREAKING: The Illinois General Assembly passed the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA) Act, which includes an investment of over $1.5 billion in transit and critical reforms to ensure transit agencies deliver a coordinated, cost-efficient service! bit.ly/transitpassage
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Strong clean energy policy lowers utility bills! A provision in the Climate & Equitable Jobs Act provides a credit on ComEd bills when power prices are high, like now. The credit has "worked out great," crediting consumers about $600M, a recent Chicago Tribune editorial said!
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The author of “Power Corrupts,” Richard Munson (@dickmunson), was interviewed by @CanaryMediaInc about Ohio’s House Bill 6. Read it here: bit.ly/41GFtWS
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Author of “Power Corrupts,” @dickmunson, was recently a guest on Chicago’s @WGNMorningNews where he talked about scandals in the energy sector.
Watch the full interview: bit.ly/4eOCLnH
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The Capital Spectator (@jpicerno) included @dickmunson's “Power Corrupts” in this recent book roundup.
Check out the rest: bit.ly/44js09h
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What do today's SCOTUS decisions mean for FERC? Litigants have launched 2 attacks to appeal to this Court:
1.FERC is unconstitutional bc the President cannot fire commissioners.
2. The just and reasonable standard is unconstitutional.
2 now seems dead. 1 very much alive.
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Tonight's the night—prolific Hinsdale author (and electricity expert) @dickmunson will be here to discuss his new book and answer your questions about corruption in the power industry. Do not miss this talk!
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Exploring the energy sector, @dickmunson's "Power Corrupts" takes a look at blocked bailouts and well-known scandals. bit.ly/43S6uXz (Available Oct. 2025 in the UK)
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Benjamin Franklin excelled as a scientist in three ways: how he communicated to lay people, how he connected different disciplines for wider and deeper insight, and how he applied scientific insight to his endeavours, writes @dickmunson:
buff.ly/TK3RDHl
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Benjamin Franklin "made the mistake of touching both the positive and the negative charges and basically got himself thrown across the room and on the floor."
Full interview with @dickmunson free on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/johnba…
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.@dickmunson remembers Benjamin Franklin’s scientific curiosity: “The ingenious Franklin faced the world with wonderment and systematic study…”
lithub.com/benjamin-franklin…
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.@dickmunson’s splendid biography of Benjamin Franklin provides an insightful view of the statesman’s lesser known accomplishments in science.
@wwnorton bookpage.com/?p=208952
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NEW: Book challenges in 2023 reached the highest levels ever documented by @OIF.
See where challenges have risen across the country: ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/book…
YOU have the power to stand up to censorship. Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/tak…
New censorship numbers from @OIF are out this morning. The organized campaigns to ban books continue, and the overwhelming swell of censorship attempts that school libraries have been experiencing is increasingly occurring at public libraries.
#UniteAgainstBookBans
ALT ALA reports the highest number of challenged book titles ever documented in 2023. Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association
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This new video really humanizes the problem of utility bill hikes that benefit Big Coal and corrupt utilities like FirstEnergy with an eye opening look at West Virginia and beyond.
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An Ohio grand jury has handed up a 44-count indictment against three players in what is likely the biggest bribery scandal in state history. The 50-page indictment unveiled Monday provides new details about a decade of payoffs and conflicts.
@martyschladen
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2024/…
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Interesting recap of the FirstEnergy #HB6 scandal from @nytimes, with an eye to the Householder trial that started a year ago & the Supreme Court’s overall blessing of big money in politics. 1/3 nytimes.com/2024/01/25/magaz…