Dear Editor: I support the lawful sale of medical and recreational marijuana to adults in Rio Blanco County. I have sympathy for the use of medical marijuana by our sick, handicapped and those who cannot access high-priced prescriptions. It would be shameful for us to deny one citizen who is[Read More…]
Opinion
Letter to the Editor: Apology to Steiner, Halandras
Dear Editor: This letter of apology is to Mr. Larry Steiner and Mr. Regus Halandras and to all who were offended by my letter in the Rio Blanco Herald Times on Nov. 27.
Letter to the Editor: Pioneers thanks folks who made Parade of Lights, Homes tour such successes
Dear Editor: Pioneers Healthcare Foundation would like to thank the many people and organizations that made the 2014 Festival of Lights and Parade of Homes a fun success. We couldn’t do it without a great team.
From My Window… Weekend jaunt brought tears, laughter, importance of family
It was bright, sparkly and fun-filled as I looked out my window over the weekend. Colored lights and reindeer and marching bands and teary-eyed adults were everywhere to be found.
Letter to the Editor: Support for Larry Steiner
Dear Editor: I really wanted to stay out of this debate on whether or not Meeker should have a marijuana shop, but I think something should be said.
Another look at Trappers Lake and the Wilderness Act
RBC I Only God can make a tree, but only Congress can designate a wilderness, and the Wilderness Act, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, became the law it is today largely because a powerful Colorado congressman, Wayne Aspinall, blocked the legislation in his committee over and over again.
Letter to the Editor: Thanking Dish Network for help
Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank Dish Network and its fraud department for taking the time to listen to what happened to me and then go one step further by transferring me to its fraud department so they could take a report of my incident[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Defending Meeker’s mayor, his insight
Dear Editor: The population of Meeker is getting older, and the younger generations have to leave to find work.
Letter to the Editor: Mayor Halandras not as depicted in letter
Dear Editor: First let me apologize for straying from the usual format of right vs. left battles, gay bashing, ebola and the Apocalypse. In the Nov. 27 issue of the Rio Blanco Herald Times there is a letter to the editor titled “Opinions differ about marijuana” from Lawrence and Louise[Read More…]
From My Window: Staying at area hunting, fishing lodge a bargain—in the 1960s
I received a letter the other day with just a short note from its sender, Elmer Reed, who comes to Rio Blanco County each year to hunt, but he hails from Punxsutawney, Penn. Reed’s note stated, “Enclosed please find a 1960s flier on Adams Lodge. Your readers might get a[Read More…]
Letter to the Editor: Opinions differ about marijuana
Dear Editor: This is an open letter to Mr. Larry Steiner of Meeker. It is obvious that you spent a lot of time composing your recent letter to the Herald Times.
Uintah Basin faces a tricky problem with oil, gas industry
RBC I On a crisp fall day lined with cottonwoods as yellow-bright as balls of flame, I take a gravel shortcut from Utah’s Nine Mile Canyon toward Vernal, an energy boomtown of some 10,000 souls.