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Editor’s Column: Sometimes we just have to adapt

To adapt means to make something fit or ready (as for a new use) often by modification. It’s another word for change. That’s a scary word to say aloud (or in print) around here, but all living things are in a constant state of change. Emphasis on “living things.” Doesn’t[Read More…]

November 23, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: Participate, or else

Let’s talk about voting. I realize this election was an “off-season” election without a lot of big ballot issues—no major county seats up, no state or national offices, no dramatic resolutions to weigh in on—but it was still an election. We voted on school board members and mill levies in[Read More…]

November 18, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Random thoughts this week

I should know better. Whenever I find myself falling into a cranky, judgmental, critical mindset about other people’s mistakes or bad attitudes I should know I am in imminent danger of making grave errors myself. Sometimes I catch myself in time, sometimes I don’t. The last two weeks were a[Read More…]

November 3, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: A world without newspapers

Last week was National Newspaper Week. In past years newspapers have printed blank front pages as a statement of what the world would be like without newspapers. We didn’t have room for that last week. (That’s a good thing.) Newspapers today compete for attention with magazines, radio, television and (probably[Read More…]

October 13, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: There are no easy answers

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” – The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution I wasn’t planning on going here so soon after sharing my thoughts on the[Read More…]

October 6, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Defensive? You might be part of the problem {Editor’s Column}

By Niki Turner [email protected] “ Be honest. Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.” ~ Dale Carnegie As soon as one party goes on the defensive, positive forward progress grinds to halt. Each[Read More…]

September 21, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: Deserts or desserts?

This Sunday commemorates the signing of our nation’s Constitution. I wantedto print the Constitution in its entirety as we did with the Declaration of Independence, but space this week has not permitted me to do so. Small towns are wonderful fodder for fiction, whether mystery, romance, thriller or otherwise. Part[Read More…]

September 15, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: News, or melodrama?

Between the fires in the western half of the U.S. that have clogged the atmosphere with smoke, the hurricanes flooding the southern states, and word that North Korea has amped up its nuclear weapons tests and has America in a bullseye, it’s starting to feel like a particularly sketchy season[Read More…]

September 8, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: Time flies when you’re having fun

Time also flies when you’re climbing a learning curve that has a steep incline. Tomorrow (Sept. 1) marks our one-year anniversary as owners of the Rio Blanco Herald Times and associated publications. It really has been fun, almost all of the time! Co-owners Caitlin Walker and my husband Pat have[Read More…]

September 3, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: Oh, the errors we make…

Chalk it up to “eclipse energy,” or Mercury in retrograde, or summer exhaustion, or back to school madness, but last week was a rough one for errors. My logical brain knows that’s going to happen from time to time. Major newspapers devote entire sections to corrections every day. There are[Read More…]

August 25, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: Whose flag are you flying?

I said the Pledge of Allegiance twice this week. Both times I couldn’t help pondering the Nazi and Confederate flags brazenly displayed at the protests in Virginia. Here’s my question: how does one declare allegiance to the flag of the United States of America—one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty[Read More…]

August 18, 2017 by editor 2 comments

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Editor’s Column: On learning…

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” ~ Henry Ford That applies to all areas of life, from spirituality to spelling and from politics to perception. There’s always something we can learn and in our modern world a multitude of[Read More…]

August 12, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled