This guest post was submitted by Connie Krapp, a Jamestown resident who worked for a North Dakota electric cooperative for 22 years. Sunday night on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” two female senators, North Dakota Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, were interviewed about their votes on the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. The path…
Connie Krapp: How Many Generations of #MeToo?
Seems as though in the past several years, from Bill Clinton to Bill Cosby to Bill O’Reilly, a lot of public male personalities have kissed their reputations good-bye as not-so-secret tales of their sexual misconduct have surfaced. As we have watched story after story of harassment, abuse and perversion come to light, we might think,…
Connie Krapp: You’ve Come a Long Way North Dakota
I was humbled to be part of the crowd invited to see the president at the Andeavor Refinery in Mandan. It was the second time in my life that I was part of a crowd addressed by a serving president. The first was when our son shook President Clinton’s hand as he graduated from the…
Jeremy Rham: North Dakota Needs Wind Energy
Sayanythingblog.com and AgWeek recently published Connie Krapp’s op-ed entitled “Before Permitting Another Wind Mill North Dakota’s PSC Must Publicize Costs for Taxpayers and Energy Consumers.” The op-ed specifically referred to Otter Tail Power Company’s involvement with EDF Renewable Energy’s Merricourt Wind Farm near Ellendale. Ms. Krapp’s op-ed was decidedly negative. However, our company’s upcoming proceedings…
Connie Krapp: Before Permitting Another Wind Mill North Dakota’s PSC Must Publicize Costs for Taxpayers and Energy Consumers
News broke this week that a 130,000-acre wind farm originally proposed six years ago near Merricourt in south-central North Dakota is back on the burner. Last month, Otter Tail Power Company paid the $175,000 filing fee to get the project back in front of the North Dakota Public Service Commission. In so doing, it resurrected…