Between the fires in the western half of the U.S. that have clogged the atmosphere with smoke, the hurricanes flooding the southern states, and word that North Korea has amped up its nuclear weapons tests and has America in a bullseye, it’s starting to feel like a particularly sketchy season[Read More…]
Columns
Editor’s Column: Oh, the errors we make…
Chalk it up to “eclipse energy,” or Mercury in retrograde, or summer exhaustion, or back to school madness, but last week was a rough one for errors. My logical brain knows that’s going to happen from time to time. Major newspapers devote entire sections to corrections every day. There are[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: How about an indoor beach?
With all the turmoil surrounding the Meeker Adventure Center, I think I’ve stumbled across an alternative that might appeal to everyone. Well, everyone who craves the beach during our nine months of winter. Which is everyone, right? (We only have three months when it doesn’t snow, if we’re lucky, so[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Crowdfunding our health
I’m waiting for permission from the Daily Sentinel to share an article about Savannah Edinger, who has lots of Meeker connections, and her recovery from a traumatic accident on I-70 that left her with serious burns and killed two of her beloved horses. Our thoughts and prayers are with her[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: What color is your news?
When I was little, I hated the nightly news, and much preferred the comics section to the front page in the newspaper. I was a kid, that’s how it’s supposed to be. News—real news—isn’t entertainment. It’s not supposed to be “clickbait.” Headlines shouldn’t be embellished just to get you to read[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Pedestrians have rights, too
Most days I walk to and from the office. Traffic is usually a moot point, but Tuesday there was traffic. I started to cross the street at a stop sign only to have oncoming traffic pull halfway through the intersection before I’d made it across. Either they were bleeding to[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Lemon juice is not an invisibility cloak
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” —Touchstone, in As You Like It by William Shakespeare. In the 1990s two Cornell scientists were inspired by a would-be thief who believed that by covering his face in lemon juice he’d be[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Tourism is good, stopping economic leaks is good, too
There’s been a lot of talk about tourism in the last few months. How can we attract people to our communities? What will make day trippers and weekend travelers and long-term guests come visit? We’ve packed our summer calendars with festivals and activities that will appeal to residents and visitors[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Start listening, stop labeling
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.”—Douglas Adams The simplified version of this is “your perception is your reality.”
Editor’s Column: Kudos to first responders
Former Herald Times editor Jeff Burkhead would be horrified to know we’ve been functioning without a functional scanner in the office for… um… a really long time. Our analog scanner was woefully outdated. Most everyone switched to digital years ago.
Editor’s Column: More on civility; and how stuff gets in the paper
Craig city councilman John Ponikvar emailed me last week to let me know I’m not alone in my quest for greater civility in the public arena. Ponikvar has introduced “the Rules of Civility” to Club 20, and both the City of Craig and the Moffat County Commissioners have signed resolutions[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Opinions are like ___?
Fill in the blank. The point is, everybody’s got one. I usually use noses, although other body parts might be more apropos. The technical definition of an opinion is “a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.” In 1275 British monarchs established De Scandalis[Read More…]
