Indiana Michigan Power wants to explore a small modular reactor at the Rockport site, on a timeline its own executives put in the mid-2030s. As of July 2026 there is no application before nuclear regulators or the state utility commission. County ordinance guarantees advance notice and a public hearing before any construction work begins, and I will be at that hearing.

Here is what is missing from the public record: no plant worker and no Rockport or Grandview neighbor has spoken publicly that I can find. That silence is not consent. It is a gap, and I am asking you to help me fill it.

A developer wants to build a large gas power plant next to the AEP site. Commissioners rezoned the ground in June 2026, and the county council then rejected the proposed tax abatement after residents raised water use from the local aquifer, air quality, and the suspicion that the plant would end up serving data centers. The company promised neighbor well testing in the fall of 2026. If you run a well near the site, I want your reading on it, literally.

A farm co-op announced more than 20 million dollars in early 2025 for a fertilizer river terminal at Rockport, and the city kept its wastewater plant project moving through July 2026. River town infrastructure is unglamorous, essential, and exactly the kind of state level work I will own. The Ohio River made this town. It can keep making it.