Many of you are familiar with the Mission Impossible movies, where Tom Cruise and his team are given a seemingly impossible mission and ultimately do amazing things to convert the impossible to possible. While we are clearly not in the business of espionage, I humbly contend that the cooperatives’ response to February’s historic winter storm…
One of my most recent surprises is how many people are unaware of “The Cooperative Difference” — the degree to which electric cooperatives are unlike other utility providers. Back in the 1940s, when for-profit companies were unwilling to bring electricity to rural Arkansas, electric cooperatives were formed. The term…
We have all heard the saying “What goes around comes around.” In the Bible, Galatians 6:7 says, “A man reaps what he sows.” I refer to this as “Karma Cake,” and if we reap what we sow, we eventually must take a bite of the cake we bake. This story…
Many of you are familiar with the song “The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia,” but I wonder how many of you are familiar with a story where the lights actually went out in California in 2020. On Aug. 14, more than 2 million Californians were plunged into the…