1) Tri-State is in a difficult financial position. They are $3.5B in debt because they reinvested in coal when they should have looked at more economical options. 3) They have lost 30% of their ...

Lyle McKnight claims to be concerned with the “lack of transparency” from LPEA – it’s one of the main reasons he’s running for the board seat in District 4 as “The Voice of the Working Man.” However, ...

This week, Jonathan Thompson brings us a story (p.8-9) about Ol’ Big Foot, the last known wolf to roam southeastern Utah in ...

I am a long-time library user in big cities and small towns. I’ve met all kinds of interesting people and developed long-time friendships with librarians. The help they provide in understanding the ...

LPEA’s much-touted “lower-cost” replacement power is a short-term deal with an unnamed provider – reportedly Mercuria, a Swiss-based commodities trader with no local generation and no long-term ...

Roughly 25 years ago, I attended my first LPEA annual meeting, and the keynote speaker from Tri-State gave a talk titled, “The Myth of Renewable Energy.” He mainly spoke about how bad renewables are, ...

My grandfather Alva Short homesteaded on the lower Florida Mesa in 1900. He and my grandmother, Belle, initially lived in a dugout where they had their first of 12 children, all surviving into ...

As a member-owner of Tri-State, LPEA receives annual capital credit allocations – a share of Tri-State’s profits based on how much power LPEA purchases. These are recorded as patronage capital, ...

“Former Vice President Joe Biden’s top advisers and prominent Democrats outside the Biden campaign have recently revived a long-running debate whether Biden should publicly pledge to serve only one ...

The LPEA Board of Directors, on its own, decided to break a contract with Tri-State that included proven reliable power supply and a voting membership in that co-op of co-ops. The board did not ...

It’s happening earlier and earlier every year. At the start of the new millennium, the black bears living around Durango typically started emerging from their winter dens around mid-April. Today, ...