Achilles' Other Heel

For more than a century, one of Washington's best-kept secrets lay beneath the Lincoln Memorial: the Undercroft, a soaring 50,000-square-foot foundation built to keep the landmark from sinking into D.C.'s swampy ground. Beginning in June, the public will be able to visit the space, now with a museum tracing the memorial's history, from its construction to its role as a powerful stage for the civil rights movement. cbsn.ws/4vief5h

Gray Catbirds, relatives of mockingbirds and thrashers, are skilled mimics, blending sounds from other birds to create unique songs. Recorded on Hulls Falls Road, Essex County, NY (15 May 2026). wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-bir…

Let's be blunt about why your power bill is crushing you. Albany did this on purpose. New Yorkers pay 70% more for electricity than the rest of America, and the gap is getting WIDER on @KathyHochul’s watch. A broken system she refuses to fix: - Hidden taxes. Con Ed buries property taxes in your bill at 4x the national average. Albany's ignored it for decades. - Self-inflicted shortages. The state choked off gas pipeline capacity, so one cold snap detonates your bill (upstate prices spiked 80% last winter). - Mandates with no limits. A gas ban on new homes, a new carbon-pricing scheme: zero affordability caps, zero honesty about what it costs YOU. - Rubber-stamped profits. Hike after hike sails through while regulators admit they “must do more.” They know, and they don't care. The result? Nearly 88,000 households shut OFF in six months. In winter. In the richest state in America. Hochul chose mandates over families. The fix: kill the property-tax pass-through, clear the gas bottlenecks, cap every mandate, end the utility rubber-stamp, build real power (nuclear, hydro) and AUDIT every dollar. We pay the most, get the least accountability. I'll change that.