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EDITOR’S COLUMN – Desiderata … ‘things desired’

Years ago, the commercial Christmas season was heralded not by the terror of hearing a certain Mariah Carey song-that-shall-not-be-named, but by the arrival of the department store Christmas catalog. Within its glossy pages were sparkling images of smiling children and all the best toys one could request from Santa. Pages[Read More…]

December 6, 2023 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Columns

Editor’s Column: When ‘the media’ goes awry

If you are getting our multiple award-winning weekly newsletter (if you’re not, you should be), you got a peek last week at what goes on in the minds of your local journalists when they bring home a handful of awards from the Colorado Press Association convention: “existential crisis.” So why[Read More…]

October 4, 2023 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Opinion

Editor’s Column: Uncommon courtesy

Having grown up in the days when telephones were attached to the wall and there was only one per household, I remember my parents objecting when I tried to call friends during the “dinner hour” or anytime after 9 p.m. Business calls were limited to regular business hours. Folks removed[Read More…]

June 4, 2021 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Good Riddance, 2020

When the pandemic kicked off last spring I said I thought this event was going to leave a mark. Little did I know at that point how deep that mark would go. I’m chalking 2020 up as the second worst year of my life (second only because no one in[Read More…]

December 31, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: One Good Thing

This has been a year of unusual events. The conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the night sky for the first time since 1226 A.D., is just one of those events. From our perspective on Earth, the two visible planets look very much like an unusually large star, much like[Read More…]

December 27, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Denial has an ugly side

Denial isn’t a river in Egypt. (The Nile is a river in Egypt for those of you, like me, who don’t like puns.) I have no idea what living conditions are currently like in Egypt along the Nile, but I do know what living in denial is like. At first,[Read More…]

November 16, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s column We’re hyperlocal, and we’re staying that way

If you are a supporter of a political position and want to share your message, you are welcome to write a letter to the editor. at no charge to you (it’s not free for us). If you want us to promote your particular position, you are more than welcome to[Read More…]

September 9, 2019 by editor 2 comments