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Who Pays? The Cost Question at the Heart of Rural America’s Energy Future When hyperscale data centers arrive in a cooperative’s territory, the cooperative has no legal choice but to serve them. The real question is whether the members who’ve been paying their bills for decades end up carrying the cost. Growth arrives. Someone absorbs…

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The 60 residents present made very loud shouts and comments not just during the public hearing about the setting of future Green Box fees or during the regular public comment period, but the loud remarks continued throughout the meeting as the members worked through the items on their agenda. The authorized public comments alone took over an hour to be heard.

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HYPERSCALE: POWER AND THE PACE OF CHANGE — PART ONE There is a word moving through the energy industry right now like a current through a line: hyperscale. It shows up in regulatory hearings, in utility planning documents, in conversations between cooperative executives trying to figure out what comes next. It describes data centers so…

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Joe says the music they play, ‘black dirt country’ is both a nod to red dirt country and to their own origin story

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There’s a natural instinct in all of us to move past discomfort. To stay busy.To stay distracted.To keep going. But what happens when we don’t? Episode 4 of Moments of Stillness, created by Noelle Corley, invites listeners into a different kind of space—one where the goal isn’t to fix, solve, or escape, but simply to…

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Board President Emery Grimes stated that this hearing, which was requested by Bert-Kinderman, is not a disciplinary hearing but an administrative one, and is narrowly focused on whether Superintendent Dr. Leatha Williams was arbitrary and capricious in her decision to place Bert-Kinderman on the leave of absence.

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  For Chris Martin, bluegrass didn’t start on a stage. It started at home. “My dad played music and taught us how to play,” he said. “So we’ve been around it most of our lives.” That foundation still shapes WoundTight today. What began as a group of musicians playing together locally has grown into something…

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There’s a certain kind of musician you find in bluegrass — the kind who didn’t chase the music as much as they grew into it. That’s where Steve Worley starts. “I guess around 12 years old,” he said. “That’s when I got my first guitar.” From there, it wasn’t a straight line. It was church….

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When Mike Andes talks about bluegrass, he doesn’t talk about it like a career. He talks about it like something that found him early and never let him go. “I fell in love with it around nine or ten years old,” he said. “It was a God-given talent, and it just took off from there.”…

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There’s a certain kind of story you hear often in rural communities—but not often enough in today’s world. It’s the story of someone who didn’t leave. Someone who chose to stay, to build a life, and to serve the same people year after year. That’s the story of Glen Dobbs. In our latest interview on…

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