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Pipeline will devastate the bay

March 13 is the date for the Coos County Commissioners to decide whether or not to permit The Williams Companies, Inc., owners of a nationwide system of interstate natural gas pipelines, and one of the nation’s largest transporters of natural gas, to bury 2.4 miles of...

Chairman Messerle’s new rule

Fred Messerle had it all handed to him. When County Commissioner Nikki Whitty died, Commissioner Bob Main appointed Messerle to take Whitty’s place on the Board. That was splendidly efficient, since Messerle didn’t have to trouble himself with getting elected. There...