It’s human nature to want people to agree with us. We all want to be right, and encountering people who don’t see things the same way we do triggers an almost primal need to correct and convince them they are wrong and we are right. We all do it, whether[Read More…]
Columns
Editor’s Column: School’s back in session, but is the four-day week hurting us?
When a topic randomly pops up in conversation twice in the space of a few days, it makes me wonder if there’s more to think about. This week it’s the concept of the four-day school week. I remember the discussion and debate the last time our districts decided to go[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Leading without malice
The museum display at the White River Museum that includes James Lyttle’s original printing press also includes a plaque naming and honoring Richard Lyttle. The first line reads: “Many years he spoke for us.” The second line reads, “Leading without malice.”
Water is precious. Don’t waste it. {Editor’s Column}
If drought teaches us anything at all it should teach us the critical value of water. Apparently Meeker residents aren’t learning the lesson. We’ve used more water in the last six weeks than ever before in the recorded history of Meeker water usage. When conditions are as dry and drastic[Read More…]
Newsprint tariff has painful consequences {Editor’s Column}
A few months ago we mentioned the 32 percent tariff placed on Canadian newsprint (where almost all uncoated paper in the U.S. comes from) thanks to a single complaint from a paper mill owned by a New York hedge fund, and the potential threat that tariff poses to the newspaper[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Thank you to the fire crews
As I’m writing this on Tuesday evening, we’ve had a welcome—albeit brief—rainstorm pass through. The relief is tangible after weeks of hot, dry conditions and several days when it seemed our county was spontaneously combusting around us. Lord willing, any accompanying lightning hasn’t sparked more fires. After two days of[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Do we give a **** about our reputation?
Channeling a little Joan Jett there, but it’s a question to consider. Twenty-plus years ago one of my Glenwood friends was in an airplane on her way home from a church convention in Oklahoma. She struck up a conversation with her seat mate. Somehow the conversation came around to the[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Pollen stole my muse
Judging others by a different standard than we judge ourselves is how hypocrisy is born. I think about the elected and appointed officials who take office espousing a particular ideology or purpose, only to turn around and do exactly the same thing they complained about in their campaigns. Or the[Read More…]
How to not be ‘THAT GUY’ in a public meeting (Editor’s Column)
The very first freedom listed in the Constitution is the freedom of religion, followed by freedom of speech and then freedom of the press. Quite a few individuals have raised concerns this week about their freedom of speech, particularly as it pertains to public meetings. Along those same lines, of[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: April 26, 2018
To the less-than-courageous individual who was in downtown Meeker last week distributing snarky fliers about the Meeker rec district, do you have a legitimate reason for not adding your “John Hancock” to your wee editorial? Are you afraid of legal backlash, since you devolved to the kind of name-calling that[Read More…]
‘We go to meetings so you don’t have to’—it’s not catchy, but it’s true (Editor’s Column)
We (my daughter/co-owner and I) are headed to our first Colorado Press Association (CPA) convention Thursday. This working trip is the closest thing to a vacation either of us have had in 588 days. My daughter spent a week in Vail last summer ushering her hubby to the orthopedic surgeon[Read More…]
Failing grade for voter turnout {Editor’s Column}
“Elections belong to the people. It’s their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will have to sit on their blisters.” ~ Abraham Lincoln Thirty-five percent. For just a moment, imagine if only 35 percent of your body was functioning[Read More…]
