The wild side of electric co-ops

Paul Wesslund

Paul Wesslund is a husband and father. He is also a writer and communications strategist with more than four decades in daily newspapers and electric co-op communications. Like many of his generation, he is a retiree who never quite retired.

November 2, 2022

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Is boycotting the Super Bowl the way to protest racial injustice and the National Football League’s treatment of Colin Kaepernick? iStock

Is there any point to boycotting the Super Bowl?

February 2, 2023 No Comments

Reading Time: 4 minutes Colin Kaepernick was booted out of pro football for peacefully protesting police killings of people of color. Does it do any good to protest by not watching the Super Bowl?

The dread, and the hope, in saying what you think

January 17, 2023 No Comments

Reading Time: 5 minutes A newspaper columnist writes that we’ve gotten so mean, she dreads writing her column. It’s going to take a lot of hard, creative work to make us a more civil society.

Norman Rockwell completed “Normal Rockwell Visits a Country Editor” in 1946 (just a part of it shown here.) Newsrooms have changed, since then but the value of good journalism hasn’t.

Declaring the decline of newspapers a national disaster

October 26, 2022 No Comments

Reading Time: 5 minutes Newspapers are in decline and it’s a national disaster. Communities are losing their ability to hold public officials accountable with effects as profound as tearing our society apart. We need radical solutions—maybe a federally funded force of reporters?