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Reichel said the RV industry has declined significantly since its peak in COVID, and his company is running at 50% of what it ...
In an equally surprising event, we now have TWO Americans in, dare I say, the most influential positions of power in the world! With Pope Leo XIV the newly appointed leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, ...
Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to defend our democracy. Silence is consent. Speak up and come together. When together, we overcome our fear ...
According to Create Art and Tea owner and guild founder Caprice Fox, the guild is now based in the Smiley Building, where itshares a space with the Butterfly Artist Collective, another local artist ...
In recent years, California and Arizona cut back their use dramatically. However, a recent paper by water journalist and ...
The upcoming election for the LPEA Board is an important chance to keep the community moving forward rather than going backward. A recent Durango Herald article outlined the LPEA Board candidates’ ...
Mark Pearson paints a feel-good picture of LPEA’s future but glosses over the serious risks facing our cooperative. Yes, LPEA is leaving Tri-State. But at what cost? Members are now on the hook for a ...
Plutonium 239 – a manmade element named for Pluto, the Roman god of Hell – remains lethal beyond its half-life of 24,000 years. A single particle in body tissue will cause cancer, and its genetic ...
Roughly 25 years ago, I attended my first LPEA annual meeting, and the keynote speaker from Tri-State gave a talk titled, “The Myth of Renewable Energy.” He mainly spoke about how bad renewables are, ...
This week, Jonathan Thompson brings us a story (p.8-9) about Ol’ Big Foot, the last known wolf to roam southeastern Utah in the 1910s. But Sarah Melotte, writing for the Daily Yonder, has a story on ...
Lyle McKnight claims to be concerned with the “lack of transparency” from LPEA – it’s one of the main reasons he’s running for the board seat in District 4 as “The Voice of the Working Man.” However, ...
Barbara Day recently criticized me, Lyle McKnight, for speaking out about La Plata Electric Association’s lack of transparency – suggesting I am a “hypocrite” because I serve on the Durango Fire ...