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The opportunity to tell it like it is doesn't happen often in a work environment. As an employee, you may be given the chance to review a fellow employee, department head, or director, but you know the consequences of truth. You won't be fired, but overnight, the job changes, your role changes --It doesn't get better— finding a new job might be your only choice.

I was shocked and deeply saddened to learn last week of the firing of Dr. Bruce Dahlman. I served Cook County as a physician from 1975 to 1988 and worked with Dr. Dahlman. When he was a medical student in 1978-79 Bruce came to what was then Cook County Community Clinic to learn the art of medicine. From 1984 to 1988 we worked together as partners, staffing the clinic, emergency department, in-patient ward, and nursing home. Now, we continue as colleagues, both of us teaching a curriculum which updates the knowledge and sharpens the skills of teams of rural emergency care providers-Bruce in Minnesota and Kenya; me in Montana. I have only the highest respect for Dr. Dahlman’s knowledge, skill, professionalism, and leadership qualities, which have been proven in myriad ways during his almost four decades of services.

Clean, Affordable, Reliable and Safe (CARS) is a good way to describe what renewable energy offers our families and communities. A recent NY Times article detailed the amazing change that is happening in our US (and global) energy systems.