Stories from Saturday, November 25, 2006

Take a long drive, like many of us did over the Thanksgiving holiday, and it's becoming more and more common to come upon a new ethanol plant springing up out of the plains. There's one in full production near Trenton, another near Sutherland, and others under construction near McCook, Cambridge, Madrid and Wallace...

Thanksgiving will never be the way it used to be for my family before Thanksgiving of 2001. Our oldest son, Brandon, was serving in the Navy and was stationed in San Diego, California. He had his own apartment overlooking the beach, new stereo equipment and a new television, and was only two months away from being a civilian again. ...