A quote from the Dec. 10, 1970, Rangely Times stands out: “Fifty years ago today this country was known as a melting pot. Today it resembles a pressure cooker.”
Another 50 years down the road, we might be more of a melting pot, but we’re definitely still a pressure cooker. Social, political, racial and economic tensions are higher than ever, fueled by prodigious amounts of fear and anger, ignorance and assumption, and an unwillingness to…