Dear Editor: I love you too… This Christmas I gave my wife a nice Christmas card.
Opinion
From My Window: Act before it’s too late; Broncos saga continues; watch for students
It is with quite a bit of irony that I chose this Christmas, New Year’s and even Thanksgiving to focus my columns on the importance of family and renewing the relationships with family members when they had become lost and the importance of forgetting the past and looking forward to[Read More…]
Climate accord: What’s next?
RBC I Well, before the final negotiations of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, business was already making a big difference on the ground. For the first time, superstar entrepreneurs showed up with plans to fund major initiatives.
From My Window: Family still a strong pull during holidays; lights, Broncos shine
Just got done riding around Meeker after Friday night’s big snow and there certainly isn’t a lot of pavement to be found. Even on Sunday, after about 36 hours without snow, there are a lot of cars that might be tough to find as well. Between the snows that had[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Gitmo detainees
Dear Editor: Mr. President Obama… I have a suggestion for you to consider.
Letter to the Editor: Nuclear threat
Dear Editor: President Obama, try to comprehend this: For heaven’s sake please wake up.
From My Window: Concert a joy; a nurse’s smile helps; and Merry Christmas!
It was a real pleasure and actually a lot of fun to take in the Meeker School District annual Community Winter Concert last week at Meeker High School. The music featured the sixth grade, seventh grade and eighth grade bands from Meeker Elementary School, the Barone Middle School choir and[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: An old-fashioned Christmas
Dear Editor: This is an open letter to your readers on having an old-fashioned Christmas season.
Letter to the Editor: Obama has no common sense
Dear Editor: There is a total lack of common sense. Mr. President Obama, if I could remove what little common sense you have from your brain and place it on the sharp edge of a razor blade, it would look like a tennis ball rolling down a four-lane highway. My[Read More…]
A Look at the West: Does optimism have a place in the West’s water politics?
RBC I When John Fleck began covering water (among other things) in 1995 for New Mexico’s Albuquerque Journal, he assumed he’d be writing stories about dried out wells and cracked mud. After all, as a Los Angeles native who grew up in a suburb that had replaced an irrigated citrus[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Venting frustrations
Dear Editor: I had to remove my signs along Highway 64 west of Meeker. I was afraid that people stopping to take pictures and to look might cause an accident. I thought maybe I could vent my frustrations through the paper. Jeramee Brumback Meeker
From My Window: Christmas lights create holiday mood; prep basketball a joy
I must admit to being a bit of a Scrooge. It has been more than just a couple of decades since I became excited about Christmas. As an adult on my own until I got married at the age of 29, there wasn’t much to look forward to.