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Articles from the June 8, 2023 edition


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  • Combines to battle this weekend in Lind

    Roger Harnack, Franklin Connection|Updated Jun 14, 2023

    LIND – The city roars to life Friday and Saturday, June 9 and 10, as the 34th annual Combine Demolition Derby Days brings thousands of residents and visitors out for weekend of smashing fun. The highlight of the event is the Lions Club Combine Demolition Derby, in which area farmers, fans and others put their fortified combines to the test in a demolition contest, with the last combine running crowned the victor. But the weekend also includes a car show, barbecue, car and pickup truck racing, grain truck racing, camping, m...

  • Drive-by shooting suspect sought in Hatton

    The Journal|Updated Jun 14, 2023

    HATTON — The Adams County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man wanted in connection with a June 4 drive-by shooting incident in Othello. At about 12:36 a.m., deputies executed a search warrant at a house in the 400 block of Cherry Street, Hatton, records show. They were searching for Moises Dominguez-Montoya Ivis. The 28-year-old Ivis is wanted on charges of drive-by shooting and aiming/discharging a firearm/dangerous weapon during an incident in the 1700 block of Bench R...

  • Urge Congress to reform energy permits

    Updated Jun 14, 2023

    The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which allocated $386 billion for clean energy, is a major breakthrough in our nation’s struggle to address climate change. The IRA can decrease our carbon emissions 40% by 2030, putting us within general range of our targeted 50-52% emissions reduction by then. But unless we speed up the permitting process for the transmission lines needed to convey the clean energy, we’ll realize only about 20% of the projected reduction, according to a Princeton REPEAT Project study. It now takes 4.3...

  • Extra costs of wind, solar power

    Todd Myers, Washington Policy Center|Updated Jun 14, 2023

    Relying on increased wind and solar is likely to increase electricity costs for residents in Washington and Idaho, and make electricity less reliable. Advocates of wind and solar frequently point to is the claim that the fuel is “free.” That claim ignores the extremely high up-front cost of those energy sources. To account for that, energy analysts create a “levelized cost of energy” to compare between energy that has low costs up-front but has ongoing costs for the fuel ...