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Workers preparing in September to bury electrical wire underground at a high-risk wildfire area in California. Photo: Preston Gannaway for The Wall Street JournalCalifornia regulators on Thursday gave PG&E approval to bury hundreds of miles of power lines to reduce wildfire risk in coming years, but the amount fell short of the company’s full request. The California Public Utilities Commission voted to allow company to bury 1,230 miles of power lines between 2023 and 2026 in a process known as undergrounding. The company, whose power lines have ignited numerous deadly fires in recent years, had requested permission to bury roughly 2,000 miles over that period to essentially eliminate fire risk on those circuits.
Persons: Preston Gannaway Organizations: Wall Street Journal, California Public Utilities Commission Locations: California, Wall Street Journal California
Rich St. Pierre was 7 years old when his mother died suddenly. Well-meaning adults would tell him that “she had gone to a better place.” What, he wondered, was better than home, with him and his siblings? Carolynne, a maternity nurse known for her sharp wit, had undergone exhaustive experimental treatments around New England, desperate to buy more time. When it looked like it was running out, Rich and Carolynne shifted their focus: journaling, writing letters and recording videos for the kids. They also agreed to let two journalists from the local newspaper document the family’s final months with Carolynne.
Persons: Rich St, Pierre, , Rich, , Elijah, EJ, Carolynne Locations: New England
The cause was myelofibrosis, a rare type of blood cancer, his son Dr. Yuri Pride said. As The Monitor’s managing editor from 1978 to 1983 and its editor until he retired in 2008, Mr. Pride won the National Press Foundation’s Editor of the Year Award in 1987 for overseeing The Monitor’s eloquent coverage of the death of a hometown heroine, the astronaut and teacher Christa McAuliffe, in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. In 2008, Preston Gannaway of The Monitor won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for her intimate chronicle of a family coping with a parent’s terminal illness. Under Mr. Pride’s leadership, the New England Newspaper & Press Association named The Monitor New England newspaper of the year 19 times.
Photo: Preston Gannaway for The Wall Street JournalSVB got numerous warnings from the central bank over time. WASHINGTON—The Federal Reserve raised concerns about risk management at Silicon Valley Bank starting at least four years before its failure earlier this month, documents show. In January 2019, the Fed issued a warning to SVB over its risk-management systems , according to a presentation circulated last year to employees of SVB’s venture-capital arm, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Photo: Preston Gannaway for The Wall Street JournalThe Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. seized Silicon Valley Bank on Friday. Regulators are auctioning Silicon Valley Bank as part of a broader effort to contain the fallout from its failure on Friday. Treasury officials confirmed the auction to lawmakers and staff on a call Sunday afternoon, according to people familiar with the matter, saying bids were expected by 2 p.m. Eastern Time.
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