The Department of Energy was looking at Deaf Smith County and also Swisher County, Texas at that time. So, we were just paying attention, listening with friends. But, I began to hear a lot of helplessness from people in the area, saying that there was nothing they could do about a federal project—that the property was going to be taken […]

“I wrote an op ed piece for Hightower on farm policy. And you never wrote something for Hightower that he just took and put out with his name on it. I can still see him standing at his desk with that black pen.. For the next two years I directed the nuclear waste studies project… I was back and forth […]