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Letters to the Editor: February 28, 2008

February 28, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Meeker Locals: February 28, 2008

MEEKER — The White River Museum has sold out of all its copies of “Ropin’ The Past,” a collection of stories written by former Meeker resident Rich Lyttle.

February 28, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Good neighbors — an untapped resource

MEEKER — “You’re going so fast, there must be a house afire!” my neighbor called out one afternoon as I hurried by on my way to the post office.

February 28, 2008 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

HB 1129 can help change what is wrong with Colorado

RBC — As a citizen of Colorado and the United States of America, I notice something’s wrong in Colorado. This past year I witnessed something I thought would never happen: Government agencies and so-called “grassroots” groups using our children for money and power.

February 21, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

HB 1129 can help change what is wrong with Colorado

RBC — As a citizen of Colorado and the United States of America, I notice something’s wrong in Colorado. This past year I witnessed something I thought would never happen: Government agencies and so-called “grassroots” groups using our children for money and power.

February 21, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Letters to the Editor: February 21, 2008

Dear Editor,

February 21, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Meeker Locals: February 21, 2008

By Harold Tymes Staff Writer MEEKER — Leadville, Colo., in Lake County, a mountain community about the same size as Meeker, serves as a reminder this week of the importance of being diligent to demand responsible and ethical methods of extracting our natural resources to protect our environment. Leadville has[Read More…]

February 21, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Looking Back: Epidemics, illness a part of pioneer life

MEEKER — Taking to one’s sickbed is how the winter siege of illnesses was described in many local childhood remembrances. While home remedies such as mustard plasters, kerosene and castor oil were recalled by many pioneer family members, the helplessness felt by an outbreak or subsequent epidemic of smallpox, scarlet[Read More…]

February 21, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Letters to the Editor: February 14, 2008

February 14, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Meeker Locals: February 14, 2008

MEEKER — Happy Valentine’s Day! As snow continues to fall outside, in spite of the fact February is traditionally our driest month, our thoughts turn to visions of spring. Oh, sorry, springtime in the Rockies looks just like winter in the Rockies, doesn’t it? OK, let’s go with visions of[Read More…]

February 14, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Why not just abolish the Federal Reserve System?

RBC — One of the positions of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul that mainstream pundits find “wacky” is his call to abolish the Federal Reserve System. Never mind that two Nobel Prize-winning economists — both libertarians — called for the same thing.

February 14, 2008 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Say bye-bye icebox and hello freezer

RBC — The old expression, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” came to mind with the recent news report that Fraser, Colo., is no longer the “icebox of the nation.” Another community has been awarded that dubious distinction. It appears that one town’s icebox is another town’s deep freeze,[Read More…]

February 14, 2008 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

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