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  • First Thoughts
  • January 2017

Manufacturing a middle class in Illinois once again

Natural lighting, combined with overhead and task lighting, can make a kitchen functional and energy efficient.
  • Energy Solutions
  • January 2017

Remodeling the heart of your home

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  • Safety Check
  • January 2017

Empower yourself when the lights go off

Pets
  • Feature Stories
  • January 2017

Take two pets, and call me in the morning

  • Feature Stories
  • January 2017

Lights out!

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Sicilian Sausage Soup

Discussing cooperative board and management challenges during the November 15-16 Mid America Cooperative Board Roundtable are (l-r) Duane Noland, President and CEO of the AIEC; David Senn, Board Chairman, Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc.; Bernard Marvel, Board Chairman, Spoon River Electric Cooperative; Dan Kelley, Vice Chairman, CoBank and ­former Chairman of Growmark, Inc., and Dennis Fredrickson, AIEC Board Chairman and Board Member of Corn Belt Energy Corporation.
  • Currents
  • January 2017

Co-op leaders discuss today’s challenges at leadership roundtable

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Kielbasa Casserole

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Lemon Brownies

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

White Cheddar Beer Cheese Soup

BLT-Salad
  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

BLT Salad

  • Currents
  • January 2017

Saving Illinois forests by cutting down trees

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  • Feature Stories, ICL
  • January 2017

Power from the earth

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Roasted Vegetables

Electric cooperatives are currently testing superhydrophobic materials to help prevent damage to power lines, whether from accumulating ice or damage from seawater. Every year, electric utilities lose millions of dollars from damage caused by ice and corrosion.
  • Web exclusive

Promising technology to survive ice storms

  • Currents
  • January 2017

America’s problems require ‘profound change’ to solve

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  • Finest Cooking
  • January 2017

Aunt Hilda’s Biscuits

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  • Powered Up
  • January 2017

How to spot a scam

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  • Powered Up
  • December 2016

Routine maintenance

  • Web exclusive

Seal tight, ventilate right

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  • Energy Solutions
  • December 2016

Keeping your pets (and your energy bill!) comfortable

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  • Garden Wise
  • December 2016

Christmas gift suggestions for your favorite gardener

Richard Walden (left), Vice Chairman of Carlinville Area Hospital’s board told MJM Electric Board Chairman Bob Lehmann and President/CEO Laura Cutler the hospital has grown by 25 percent in just a few years. The new $2 million USDA REDLG zero-percent revolving loan through the co-op will help further that growth.
  • Currents
  • December 2016

MJM Electric Cooperative and USDA help expand rural healthcare

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  • Currents
  • December 2016

Illinois co-op directors tops in Gold level certification

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  • Currents
  • December 2016

Illinois pioneers of rural electrification

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  • Feature Stories
  • December 2016

The Spirit of Christmas

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  • Feature Stories

2016 Holiday Essays

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  • Feature Stories
  • December 2016

The search for the perfect tree

  • Finest Cooking
  • December 2016

Cheese Puffs

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  • Finest Cooking
  • December 2016

Pesto Blossom

The winners of the Best Overall Team consisted of apprentice linemen (l-r) Adam Shenaut, Mitch Behrends and Jack Ross.
  • Currents
  • December 2016

19th Annual Lineman’s Safety Rodeo held

Charging an electric car
  • Currents
  • December 2016

One in six cars worldwide in 2020 must be electric

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