Award reminds us that under pressure, emergency dispatchers save lives The Daytona Beach News-Journal
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Across Florida, emergency dispatchers wait for their next call. Often, it’s minor – a fender-bending collision or shoplifting case – or even silly. (Yes, a Connecticut man did call 911 because there was too much turkey on his sandwich.)
But dispatchers never know, when they answer, what they will hear next. Violence, anguish, panic. Sheer terror, flowing through phone lines and demanding immediate action – the right action, no matter how high the stakes. And then the call is over. Sometimes, dispatchers never know what happens next.
FBI investigation revealed vast FirstEnergy-backed political network hidden through lax state disclosure rules
Updated Jan 19, 2021;
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Legal filings and media reports over the past six months gradually have peeled back the layers of a dark-money political network funded by FirstEnergy, the Akron-based utility company.
But because state and federal law don’t require political nonprofits to disclose their donors, the only reason the public knows about anything about the utility’s ties to the expansive constellation of Ohio political causes is the federal investigation into House Bill 6, the nuclear bailout law which prosecutors say passed due to a $61 million bribery scheme, funded by FirstEnergy and its affiliates through secret or difficult to trace political donations.