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Editor’s Column: Oct. 1, 2020

That was a debacle, not a debate By NIKI TURNER | [email protected] I try to avoid touching on national politics in this space, but what we witnessed on live television Tuesday between presidential candidates was, quite frankly, embarrassing. It resembled those awkward family dinners that devolve into a shouting match[Read More…]

October 1, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: A long way to go

Fight for the things that you care about. But do it in a way that will lead others to join you. ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg It’s hard to believe that just 50 years ago, a woman couldn’t get a credit card without having her husband co-sign the application, could be[Read More…]

September 29, 2020 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Hindsight is 20/20

By Niki Turner | [email protected] 2020 sucks. On that — if on nothing else — we can all agree. I’m still scraping branches off my roof from this week’s super-early winter storm. I don’t know why any of us are surprised, the weather these days is beyond unpredictable and into[Read More…]

September 11, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: 1 in 4

Last week we learned that we have received another national press award for our coverage of the Daniel Pierce shooting in Rangely last year. We are the recipients of the first-place award for investigative journalism in the National Newspaper Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. I’ve been humbled and honored by the[Read More…]

August 28, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Conference calls?

We dwell in a county with what may be the very best broadband access in the state, and yet our remote access to public meetings is limited — with few exceptions — to conference call numbers with crazy feedback, white noise, and the inability to hear anyone who isn’t within[Read More…]

August 22, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Opinion

Editor’s Column: We don’t have to, we get to

I learned this week that an acquaintance in Denver, a fellow writer with whom I enjoyed a four hour dinner and conversation a few years ago, has been hospitalized with COVID-19. The news took me by surprise. Throughout the pandemic she’s been a self-described naysayer, doubting the danger posed by the[Read More…]

August 14, 2020 by Niki Turner 1 comment

Editor’s Column: Virtual Baggage

Feel down? Vaguely depressed? Frustrated? Have you lost your self-confidence? Struggling to find your voice? Paranoid? Angry for no reason? Convinced everything is terrible and will never get better? You may be experiencing an acute case of virtual baggage caused by repeated exposure to keyboard bullies, the tone police (the[Read More…]

August 6, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: July 28, 2020

I don’t know that I’ve ever been so grateful for teachers. I’m friends with a number of my high school teachers on Facebook and we interact fairly often. I respect what they have to say. They’re still teaching me. I think, if you’re a teacher, you can’t help it. You[Read More…]

July 31, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Policy

The HT has had a social media presence for more than a decade. We were “early adopters” in the social media realm, and I’m mostly to blame. But in all the years we’ve been posting local news to social media, we’ve never deleted a post. Until now. When the governor[Read More…]

July 24, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: 50/50

Barring some additional 2020 disaster, the Vol. 135, Issue 50 of the Rio Blanco Herald Times will come out on my 50th birthday. Lord willing, we won’t have any random pages from last year supplanting this week’s pages (that was last week), but given the way this year is going[Read More…]

July 19, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Pioneers, settlers and museum-keepers: which one are you?

Full disclosure, I stole the title from an old sermon series, but it’s relevant. The basic premise is that there are three types of people: pioneers who are hungry for change and new things, settlers who want to maintain the status quo, and museum-keepers who guard the old ways. All[Read More…]

July 11, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Out of order

This week there were three public events in 24 hours where face coverings were almost non-existent. When Caitlin told me an elderly lady asked to sit by her because “no one else is being safe” (no masks), I did something I shame other people for doing: I went toxic on[Read More…]

July 5, 2020 by Niki Turner Comments are Disabled