The Election That Transcended Tribalism
by RTBC Staff
Pundits are describing last night as a romp for Democrats, a rebuke of Republicans, a blue tsunami, a rout in the red states. But underneath these headlines is a quieter, parallel story about voters choosing to abandon tribal allegiance and make decisions for themselves. For months, we’ve been hearing about the possibility of a blue wave — and then, in the same breath, the caveat: Is a wave even possible in today’s hyper-polarized America? And yet, in Texas, Florida, Kansas and beyond, the electorate refused to let party loyalty make their choice for them. Young, Latino and red-state voters moved, sometimes dramatically, in just two years.
Record Number Of Female Governors Elected
by Alexandra Marquez, NBC News
Voters in 17 states have elected female governors, setting a record in Tuesday’s election as Democrats made sweeping gains in races up and down the ballot. With some governor’s races still unresolved, at least 10 Democratic women were projected to win their contests, and three Republican women — Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte and Tennessee Gov.-elect Marsha Blackburn — were projected to do the same. Democratic women made historic gains in battleground states for their party, with former public health official Amy Acton in Ohio and state Rep. Gina Hinojosa in Texas emerging victorious in races that were not initially expected to be competitive.
Montana Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Ballot Initiative To Ban Corporate Cash From Political Campaigns
by Brad Reed, Common Dreams
Voters in Montana on Tuesday delivered a major blow to big moneyed interests by overwhelmingly passing a ballot initiative barring corporate cash from political campaigns in the state. With 87% of votes counted as of Wednesday morning, Montana Constitutional Initiative 194 has received support from more than 65% of voters, with just 35% registering opposition. The initiative prohibits what it describes as “artificial persons”—which includes corporations, nonprofits, trusts, partnerships, and trade associations—from giving money to political campaigns. Supporters of the initiative have billed it as a way to strike a blow against the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.
More Than 5,000 Panels Cover Six Acres Of A Delaware Wastewater Pond, Forming A 3-MW Floating Solar Plant
by Emile Perreira, The Pulse
A number of utility projects start with a hunt for some available area. A big open field works well. An empty piece of property works. So do strips of open area near existing infrastructure. An old wastewater treatment lagoon doesn’t make most lists. However, in Middletown, Delaware, this type of lagoon made the cut. Over 5,000 solar panels currently sit atop six acres of a 14-acre wastewater treatment lagoon and provide a 3-megawatt floating solar installation. Middletown, Delaware’s first floating solar installation, now sits in a spot that few energy developers would consider first. This installation looks unlike many other traditional solar installations.
Vatican Vegetable Garden Goes 100% Organic
by Hannah Brockhaus, EWTN News
A vegetable garden and orchard inside the Vatican walls, which historically provided food for the pope’s household, is now cultivated using exclusively organic farming techniques. The private garden covers almost a tenth of an acre of cultivable land inside the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery property, where Pope Benedict XVI lived during his retirement and now reside cloistered Benedictine nuns from the Abbey of St. Scholastica in Victoria, Argentina. Sometimes known as “the pope’s garden,” the vegetable plot “has always been a defining feature of the Vatican Gardens because, in fact, the Vatican Gardens were originally created primarily for that purpose — to provide sustenance for the [Apostolic] Palace”.
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