Puerto Rico governor pledges to improve island’s crumbling power grid after repeated outages

SAN JUAN (AP) — Puerto Rico’s governor pledged Thursday to improve the island’s crumbling electric grid and boost the economy in her first address after being elected last year as anger intensifies over chronic power outages and an increase in cost-of-living expenses. Gov. Jenniffer González Colón, of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, spoke for nearly two hours … Continue reading Puerto Rico governor pledges to improve island’s crumbling power grid after repeated outages