Today's News

Kudos to the San Miguel County Commission for standing up to the pressure from both anti-fracking activists and the oil and gas industry and its influential supporters.

Undoubtedly, the easy route would have been to cave to one side or the other and to adopt the rhetoric that’s been spewed as its own.

The Internet has made it easy to get information. I was using Google, the main search engine, on many  computers, long before it became a verb in its own right, as in “I’ll Google that information.”

A man who influenced me during my many years on the Highlands University faculty was also my major professor as an undergraduate, John Adams, who I wish I could have influenced as much as he did me.

Let me explain:

The state Environment Department has issued two notices of violation to the city of Las Vegas for illegal dumping behind the Rodriguez Park complex, on the city’s west side.

The state Environment Department’s Environmental Protection Division and Solid Waste Bureau issued the notices of violation on April 10 and April 17, prompting the city to spring to action.

A 30-acre blaze in the Mineral Hill area was 70 percent contained as of Saturday night with fire crews mopping up what was left of the fire on Sunday, according to State Forestry.

The blaze sent black plumes of smoke billowing into the air.

The 283 Fire, as it has been dubbed, was reported to be human-caused, sparked by hot ashes.

“There were no evacuations of the threatened structures,” State Forestry said in a news release. “Buildings were summer cabins with no current occupancy.”