John Derr

John Derr is the director of affiliate partnerships at The Center Square and the author of Another Christmas Carol.

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Louisiana lawmakers approved a revised bill Tuesday aimed at shielding energy companies from future climate change lawsuits, while allowing existing coastal erosion and wetlands cases to continue moving through the courts.

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Overtime trends in Allegheny County have shifted significantly over the past decade

• Sheriff and police overtime were equal in 2016
• Sheriff overtime now far exceeds police
• More high earners concentrated in the sheriff’s office

The change is raising questions about how departments allocate resources.

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Washington state is diverting hundreds of millions from a key infrastructure fund and replacing it with borrowed money.

A new analysis finds:
• $375M shifted to the general fund
• Over $800M diverted this biennium
• Now, bond debt is backfilling the gap

The catch? The state may be borrowing at higher rates than the loans it’s replacing.
Local officials warn the program could be weakened long-term, raising questions about sustainability and priorities.

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https://t.co/MiAJA36vqu

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Do Americans trust the U.S. power grid?

The Center Square Voters' Voice Poll finds more than a third of voters say they don’t as concerns about outages and reliability grow.

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@SIChrisMannix What about D White?

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Were I to Die in Summer https://t.co/cdV9g2TAXw via @TheRealJohnDerr

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JUST IN: The high school teacher who was beaten unconscious by a 270 pound student after she told him to get off of his Nintendo, is reportedly refusing to help the defense lighten the sentence for the teen.

Good for her 🔥

The student, Brendan Depa, is facing up to a whopping 30 years in prison.

Depa was charged as an adult for a first-degree felony charge of aggravated battery.

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@lucindahawksley Is the bruising below the area you injured? You may have had deep bruising there. Bruises feel the effects of gravity which pulls bruising downward. It might have spread to an area closer to your skin.

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Born this day (June 23) in 1898, Winifred Holtby. In 1931, doctors told her she was suffering from Bright's Disease and had only two years to live. She died in September 1935 at only 37 years old. Her most famous work, "South Riding," was published posthumously in 1936.

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Born this day (June 22) in 1906, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh. She was the author of "Gift from the Sea," and an aviator in her own right. And, she bears a stark resemblance to Penelope Ann Miller, IMHO.

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Born on this day (June 21) in 1905, Jean-Paul Sartre. He was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature and refused it, saying that he always declined official honors and that “a writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.”

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Born this day, (June 20) in 1910, Josephine Winslow Johnson was Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

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Born this day (June 19) in 1856, Elbert Hubbard was an American writer and philosopher. On May 7, 1915, he and his second wife, Alice Moore Hubbard, died aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland.

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Gail Godwin, born this day (July 18) in 1937. Godwin is an American novelist and short story writer.

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Born this day (June 17) in 1867, Henry Lawson was one of Australia's best-known poets and short story writers. He died on September 2, 1922.

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Joyce Carol Oates was born on this day (June 16) in 1938. She's been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction five times.

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Born this day in 1881, William McFee, an English writer known for his sea stories.

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Born this day (June 14) in 1811, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Died, July 1, 1896.

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Born this day in 1893, Dorothy L. Sayers. She is known as one of the ‘Queens of Crime’ along with Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh. She died on December 17, 1957.

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Anne Frank was born this day (June 12) in 1929.