Diamond is not ready for prime time
How many lives per barrel?
Pipelines have different meanings. Plains All American sees pipelines as assets, part of their infrastructure connecting frackers and crackers with...
Cotton should be baled
Dear Tom Cotton,
“We’re now one step closer to fulfilling our promise to grant much-needed tax relief to America’s working families.”
That’s what it says on...
City should benefit
Editor,
Are the 30 tents that are going to bring 1000 people going to pay the city sales tax like all the shops do? The...
Diamond’s perverse pipeline
We can harness free sunlight and wind energy or we can continue wrecking the planet … but we are running out of time!
California produced...
Good for everybody would be good
Editor,
I’m a dreamer. Imagine a town built around the healing arts, a town which fosters rest, relaxation, renewal and rejuvenation, all in a peaceful, quiet...
Nature of the Ozarks
Editor,
Goodbyes are difficult, but inevitable, as time changes everything. While preparing to move, memories swirl your mind as you go through photos, trophies or...
Independent Commentary
On February 19, 2014 council members gathered in a workshop with Lonnie Clark and Dwayne Allen to discuss increasing water and sewer rates. The...
The Diamond Pipeline will not leak
“The good news is our state-of-the-art technology caught the leak.” - Robynn Tysver, TransCanada
Tysver was talking about the Keystone pipeline 210,000-gallon oil leak last...
Getting on the gravy boat
We admire those who find things to be thankful for, especially since they seem to do it on a daily basis and not just...
Put some satire in your stockings
In a surprise move that even shocked a couple of Republicans, President Trump announced there could be jail time for anyone who says “Happy...