A long sad story which is "close to home" for me. Gillette WY is where I went to high school. And those oil and methane fields are at my homeplace today. When this became one of High Country News' prize stories, I thought it time to show a side of the energy business most Americans have little reason to know about. Parenthetically, the lack of labor required WY to solicit law enforcement help from Detroit. Cars/oil mixed. |
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Margaret Bassett passed away August 21, 2011. She was a treasured member of the Opednews.com editorial team for four years.
Margaret Bassett--OEN editor--is an 89-year old, currently living in senior housing, with a lifelong interest in political philosophy. Bachelors from State University of Iowa (1944) and Masters from Roosevelt University (1975) help to unravel important requirements for modern communication. Early introduction to computer science (1966) trumps them. It's payback time. She's been "entitled" so long she hopes to find some good coming off the keyboard into the lives of those who come after her.