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.
Opinion
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.
Letters to the Editor: February 21, 2008
Dear Editor,
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…]
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…]
Letters to the Editor: February 14, 2008
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…]
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.
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…]
Letters to the Editor: February 7, 2008
Dear Editor,
Loose Ends: Ten things not to do to beat the winter blahs
MEEKER — A few in-between days of blue skies and warm weather make many of us long for spring. Conversations around town already reflect a certain winter weather weariness, which is alarming as Colorado’s heaviest snows are often in the spring. Complaints abound, such as, “We haven’t had so much[Read More…]
