Congratulations, Winona! - and - when no one speaks up

It was very exciting to hear the Winona County has voted to ban frac sand mining! This is the power of the people who have organized, argued, informed, written, educated, lobbied, pushed back, and worked tirelessly to hold their elected leaders accountable to the good of the pe.ople. ===== On a different note, this article points out that Democrats have been mostly silent on DAPL because they are funded by the fossil fuel industry. When the elected officials are already owned by those who are doing the damage, lobbying elected officials does no good.