A legal defense fund has been setup for the defendants—Chris Baird, Janet Buckingham, Connie McMillan, Annie Payne, and Jim Stiles (and The Zephyr)— in the lawsuit brought against us recently by the former Moab City Manager. Please consider donating…
http://moab84532.wixsite.com/moabtransparency
This fund not only helps the defendants. It also helps ensure the first amendment rights of all Moab area residents. Citizens should feel safe in expressing their concerns about local government. Please help support free speech in Moab, share this post and help spread the word.
(And thanks to Kara Dohrenwend for her hard work setting up this page for the defendants and free speech…)
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EXCERPT: “Whatever the causes, lack of transparency by state and local governments can discourage civic discourse and grass-roots engagement with government, as a frustrated public often simply gives up after struggling but failing to find out what is going on close to home.”
Click Here to Read More at The Center for Investigative Reporting:
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“We have seen four gunshot wounds, three of them to the face and head,” said Leland Brenholt, a volunteer medic.
By gunshots, he insinuated that rubber bullets had been used on hundreds of people clashing with police. Conflict erupted again over the Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, Sunday night.
“This is still not on mainstream media,” Brenholt sighed. “I’d like to know why,” he sang in a facetious sing-song voice.
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/11/21/mainstream-media-mia-dapl-action-met-water-cannons-and-mace-166527
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SAN DIEGO – A wind turbine about 500 feet tall collapsed for unknown reasons in the Ocotillo area Monday, leaving three massive blades on the desert floor.
10News’ media partner East County Magazine reported the turbine that fell was at the Ocotillo Wind Energy Facility.
Ocotillo resident Jim Pelley told East County Magazine that the ground was not saturated from the day’s rainfall and the foundation was intact.
10News contacted the company that built the turbine, but the company has not returned calls as of Tuesday morning.
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Edwin Petrowsky, a former member of the Pratt County Zoning Commission, filed the suit Nov. 23 seeking temporary and permanent injunctions against NextEra Energy Resources.
Petrowsky contends the Ninnescah Wind Farm, which consists of 121 wind generators in the southeast quadrant of the county, is in the flyway of the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Whooping Crane, which is an endangered species. The wind farm is expected to go online next week.
At last count, there was only an estimated 329 wild Aransas-Wood cranes in North America.
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“Today, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it will not be granting the easement to cross Lake Oahe for the proposed Dakota Access Pipeline. Instead, the Corps will be undertaking an environmental impact statement to look at possible alternative routes. We wholeheartedly support the decision of the administration and commend with the utmost gratitude the courage it took on the part of President Obama, the Army Corps, the Department of Justice and the Department of the Interior to take steps to correct the course of history and to do the right thing.”
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