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Mayor Diane Kohout presided over her last council meeting Tuesday since taking charge of Electric City six years ago. “I want to thank my council and the staff of Electric City for everything you’ve done over the last six years,” she said. “When I came into this position, it was kind of a rough start. We basically started from ground zero. We had no real staff other than a couple people. We had a whole new council and a brand-new mayor who had never been in city politics before.” The first few months were so stressful, she said, that she got s...
by Scott Hunter The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville Tribes) and Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI) announced a landmark collaboration last week to “advance tribal energy sovereignty and resilience through the design and deployment of multiple microgrids across the reservation.” The Tribes’ 1.4 million acre reservation, which includes parts of two counties is served by five different electric utilities, and power outages are getting worse, said the Tribes’ Business Council chair, Jarred-Michael Erickso...
A friend of mine from South Dakota noted that the U.S. Postal Service delivered a lump of coal to many small towns last Christmas when it proceeded to eliminate overnight mail in most of the nation in 2015. That was a good description. USPS will slow delivery officially by one day for First-Class and Periodicals mail. Many members of Congress have asked it to hold off. But USPS is plowing ahead. It is time for lawmakers to consider how rural and small town mail is suffering. The USPS plans to close more than 80 mail processing plants in 2015.... Full story