Two news items

We all knew that power companies are retiring their older coal-fired power plants, and in some cases they're speeding up the schedule because of environmental regulations. Most of those plants are old and small. But this is the first I've heard of one of the larger coal-fired plants being put on idle status because of market conditions.

It's the W.H. Sammis plant on the upper Ohio, by the way. It's a big baseload plant, not a small peaker.

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The Wheeling newspapers are opinion opining on the slow-as-molasses progress on the demolition of an Ohio River bridge that's been closed for 20 years.