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Ursula Lee Richland...
...Rose Kennedy produced a clan in which duty and leadership were expected, Miss Lillian expected only, but urgently, that her children be themselves. It had been her way. The fourth of nine children, Bessie Lillian Gordy was born in the southwest Georgia town of Richland, where her postmaster father taught her racial tolerance early on. When the family moved to Plains, Lillian became a nurse, and shocked some neighbors by treating poor blacks as well as whites. She was, she acknowledged, probably "the most liberal woman in the county, maybe the state." In 1923 she married James...
...center of the maelstrom is Whoops, a once obscure but now infamous joint venture of 23 publicly owned utilities. With headquarters in the small city of Richland in southeastern Washington, the agency was set up in 1957 to build dams and power plants. By the early '70s Whoops officials, who put their faith in energy experts, thought that the Northwest was facing serious potential power shortages. Demand for electricity had been burgeoning 7% annually and was expected to continue growing at that pace. Hoping to provide an abundant source of cheap energy, the power system began building its first...
Yant's troubles started in May 1978 when, after only five months on the job he directed an eight-part News-Journal expose of corruption in the powerful Richland County sheriffs office, run with an iron hand for 15 years by Thomas E Weikel. The series resulted in a whirl of indictments against the sheriff and several deputies on 62 counts, including theft in office, assault and civil rights violations...
...Hill Richland, Mich...