Obviously with all of the rate increases we're seeing statewide and across the country . . . this should be a welcome respite to our customers in Marion County.

That savings is being passed on to members. Our focus is strictly on them.

We are hoping to maintain these prices, or, if possible, and in the future hopefully, pass on even more reductions to our members.

Add in the price of transportation to move these materials, especially coal, to area power plants and the disruption to fuel supplies in the Gulf by last year's storms, and it's been necessary to raise prices to our members.

It's a struggle across the country to get physicians and other health skills professionals in rural and urban underserved areas.

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.