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Letter: Senate bill would be a step forward for physician assistants
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2020, file photo, Physician assistant Steven Oginsky, top, and registered nurse Kim Alder work inside the Hackley Community Care COVID-19 triage room at 2700 Baker Street in Muskegon Heights, Mich. (Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)
By Tim McCreary | The Public Forum
| Jan. 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
A recent opinion by guest writer Don Gale stated the importance of increasing the number of health care providers, such as PAs (physician assistants), in our state. To accomplish that, Utah must first make the most of our current PA workforce, and that requires updating our laws to better align with how PAs and physicians work together today.
Letter: Safe alternatives to nuclear fission
(Thomas Burr | Tribune file photo) A statue of Philo T. Farnsworth, called the father of television, in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center.
By Scot Morgan | The Public Forum
| Dec. 24, 2020, 11:00 p.m.
Philo Farnsworth wasn’t working on “cold fusion.” He was working on nuclear fusion (hot plasma). Work on his “Fusor” reactor design continues with the Polywell reactor, but remains 20-plus years in the future.
It is irresponsible for Don to bring up nuclear fission without mentioning the seriousness of its radioactive byproducts, some of which have a half-life of 200,000 years. Radioactive reactor garbage is an environmental catastrophe that has no solution. Chernobyl accidents will always happen.
Letter: Letâs focus on clean, renewable energy
(Steve Helber | AP filephoto) Dominion Energy s Scott Solar farm in Powhatan, Va., on Aug. 6, 2019.
By Simon Diggins | The Public Forum
  | Dec. 20, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Don Gale unwittingly spreads fossil fuel industry misinformation when he claims âwe could cover the state with solar panels and windmills and it still wouldnât provide enough electricity to handle predictable needs.â
A 2013 report by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looked at the land use requirement to power the entire United States using solar energy. Based on conservative assumptions, the conclusion was that approximately 22,000 square miles of solar farm would generate enough electricity to power the whole country. For comparison, Utah has a land mass of 84,900 square miles.
By Bonnie Davis Special to The Stokes News
KING Writers are often told “write what you know,” a phrase typically attributed to Mark Twain though he didn’t always follow it himself.
For Paula May, she not only wrote about what she knows, she wrote about what she lived as a violent crimes investigator with a 32-year law enforcement career.
Most local residents will recognize her name as the former Chief of Police for the town of King, the post she retired from at the end of 2018.
While May has a well of personal experiences to draw from, probably her most renowned case was a murder thriller of highest intrigue based in dark jealousy that involved three law agencies Rowan and Watauga County Sheriff’s Departments and Salisbury Police Department with an international aspect that seems implausible.