On the eve of the three-day Fourth of July weekend, a fan that cools a town pump supplying water to west Jackson burned out.

In an open, democratic society, citizens must demand government transparency, columnist Rod Miller writes, or else be kept in the dark and fed dung like fungus.

News&Guide article “Experts warn of wildfire pitfalls” bemoaned the decline in volunteer firefighters and promotes fear of wildfire by saying, “It should scare everybody in the state ...