Letters To the Editor
To the Editor, I am writing out of deep frustration and genuine concern regarding the recent power outage that left my home without electricity while nearly every surrounding household — including my own family members just down the road — remained fully powered. This is not the first time this has happened. In fact, it has become a pattern: Any time we experience even mild weather events, my home is one of the first to lose power and one of the last to have it restored. Each time, I call to ask questions, and each time I receive the same scripted responses with no real explanation or accountability.
To make matters worse, the electric company’s mobile app routinely shows my power as “active” even when my home is completely dark. This not only adds to the frustration — it prevents accurate reporting, delays restoration, and leaves residents like me feeling ignored and overlooked.
When an outage affects an entire community, we understand it. But when one home or a small cluster is repeatedly left without power while everyone around them remains fully restored, it raises serious questions about infrastructure maintenance, response priorities, and communication. I am asking for transparency. I am asking for accountability.
And I am asking for assurance that this ongoing issue will finally be addressed. If one home can be overlooked once, it can be overlooked again — and it has been. Our community
Dear Editor, Recent weather extremes in the south and east are examples of what global warming can cause--a warmer arctic that disrupts the polar vortex and pushes cold weather and snow farther south. It also changes moisture flows around the Earth, causing more rain, flooding, and stronger storms in some areas and more heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires in other regions. Our use of coal, oil, and natural gas, which causes global warming, must be reduced quickly. One approach is to reform outdated and cumbersome permitting processes so clean energy projects, such as for solar and wind power--along with more transmission lines--can be added to our grid more quickly. Also, permitting reform can put battery storage systems online sooner to hold excess electricity from solar and wind power plants during peak generation periods and release it when needed. Currently there are bipartisan efforts in Congress for reform. Email your senators and representative, or call them at 202-224-3121, to support sensible permitting reform for clean and cheap renewable energy.
Gary Jump