When looking at a wind farm project a person living in the real world looks at two things:
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Streets. Streets. Streets.
Michael Paul Williams — a columnist with the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Richmond, Va. — won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary "for penetrating and historically insightful columns that guided Richmond, a former capital of the Confederacy, through the painful and complicated process of dis…
Today, our growers and ranchers face many roadblocks, and obstacles such as fluctuation of prices and costs related to production. However, the Agriculture (AG) community is facing an even more dangerous problem; the proposed soil reassessment that the Department of Revenue (DOR) is working …
I don’t think this is an uncommon scenario. Many times it is easier to concede and let another person have what they want.
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