Time for Coulee Dam to pay up

You can only milk a cow, or an asset, for so long before you have to put something back in.

Cities and towns, whose elected officials feel the pain of their tax- and rate-payers, eventually get forced to deal with that problem. Local cities are no different.

Currently, Coulee Dam has had its share of struggles with an added historical burden that makes the pain seem worse. A case in point came to...