Viewpoints Opinions/Letters Re: Let me see if I have this right... by Charlotte Glover - 09/08/04 First City Republican Women's Club Endorses Jim Elkins by Laura Antonsen - 09/08/04 More Viewpoints/ Letters Publish A Letter September 2004 Click on the date to read the stories & to view photos published on that day... S M T W T F S    30 31 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30     Today's Front Page Front Page Archives

Ketchikan: Senator Stedman Announces Resignation of Dick Coose; Legislative Aide to Run for Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly - Senator Bert Stedman announced Tuesday the resignation of legislative aide Dick Coose who is leaving his position to run for the Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly. Coose filed for an assembly seat Tuesday before the 5:00 pm deadline. Coose is one of four candidates filing for a 3-year term seat on the Borough Assembly. Mike Painter, John A. Harrington, and Glen Thompson have also filed. There are two seats available. - More...
Wednesday - September 08, 2004

Alaska: Elton Wants Freedom-of-Choice Primary Elections - Senator Kim Elton (D-Juneau) is drafting legislation to provide freedom of choice across the Alaska's primary election ballot. The bill requires that the state hold an open primary election but allows partisan political parties to opt out of the state-sponsored primary if they don't want to restore Alaskan voters' ability to select nominees across party lines. The parties that choose to opt out of the state-sponsored-and-paid-for primary election can select their general election nominees by other means. - More...
Wednesday - September 08, 2004

Rainbow Near Air Marine Harbor Front Page Photo by Lonny Piscoya Carroll Inlet Rainbow Front Page Photo by Carl Thompson

Fish or Cut Bait: Historical Day at TVA - I was back in Chattanooga last week for another visit to the Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah nuclear power station. I spent Monday morning observing activities in the plant's control room.

Sequoyah has two units, so the control room is rather large, with horseshoe-shaped control panels at each end. Each unit has its own operating crew, consisting of a unit supervisor and two operators. Operational activities outside of the control room are handled by auxiliary unit operators under direction of the control room crews.

I've spent a lot of time in nuclear power plant control rooms as an operator, supervisor, instructor, and evaluator. I have worked with a lot of operating crews too, but the crew I met on Monday morning in the Sequoyah plant was a pleasant surprise. The crew running Unit 1 was 100% female!

Not only was it an auspicious occasion, it was an historical occasion. An all-female operating crew was a first for TVA, and I'd be willing to bet it was a first for the commercial nuclear power industry too. - More...
Wednesday - September 08, 2004