Growing up in a depressed mining area (coal mining isn’t profitable for anyone but the mine owners) teaches you things you would never learn otherwise. This is the only advantage of growing up economically challenged. The word poor is so not cool anymore.

Gold Star Acquires Coal Properties in East Central Saskatchewan, in close proximity to the recently announced coal discovery by Goldsource Mines

SOMETIMES, I DON’T REALIZE HOW HOT a topic is until I write about it — and get flooded with feedback. Clearly, nuclear energy is such a topic. Predictably, some of you clapped me on the back, some took me to task…