There’s been a lot of talk about tourism in the last few months. How can we attract people to our communities? What will make day trippers and weekend travelers and long-term guests come visit? We’ve packed our summer calendars with festivals and activities that will appeal to residents and visitors[Read More…]
Tag: Editor’s Column
Editor’s Column: Start listening, stop labeling
Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.”—Douglas Adams The simplified version of this is “your perception is your reality.”
Editor’s Column: Kudos to first responders
Former Herald Times editor Jeff Burkhead would be horrified to know we’ve been functioning without a functional scanner in the office for… um… a really long time. Our analog scanner was woefully outdated. Most everyone switched to digital years ago.
Editor’s Column: The buzzard battle
To my dismay, the turkey vultures (Cathartes aura) have returned to roost in one of the trees in our yard. Why is this a problem? Besides the fact that they make the yard stink, send my dog into barking fits and make me wonder if someone is hiding dead bodies[Read More…]
Editor’s Colum: World Civility Day, the health of the river, and why we leave town
You never know where your words will go. Recent columns about “being civil” made their way to Indiana, where the daily Times of Northwest Indiana has initiated a Community Civility Counts campaign in partnership with the Gary, Ind., Chamber of Commerce. I received an email from the Times editor about[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: More on civility; and how stuff gets in the paper
Craig city councilman John Ponikvar emailed me last week to let me know I’m not alone in my quest for greater civility in the public arena. Ponikvar has introduced “the Rules of Civility” to Club 20, and both the City of Craig and the Moffat County Commissioners have signed resolutions[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Rush to judgment
The squirrels are back. We had to replace the battery in my car this week and discovered another stash of almond shells. My husband took his truck in for an oil change and there were almond shells in his truck’s engine compartment. Apparently while we’re sleeping the squirrels who inhabit[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: It’s the little things
Someone in my household changed the toilet paper roll this week. Despite the fact he or she put the roll on upside down—whoever did it, thank you. (And if it ever happens again, the end of the roll goes on top, because that is just how it should be done.)[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Are you for or against?
There’s an Old Testament Bible story about Joshua meeting up with the Angel of the Lord before a battle. Joshua asked the angel whose side he was on and the angel cryptically replied, “Neither.” That story, which I always found rather confusing, keeps coming back to me as I attempt to[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Glad that’s over? Now the real work begins
The election of 2016, with all its flaming rhetoric, is behind us. We have elected the 45th president of the United States of America. May he be given all the wisdom, compassion and grace he will need in the days ahead to keep his promise to “make America great again.”[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Cherish your right to vote, even if you don’t like the options
I have a confession to make: My 2016 ballot is still sitting unopened on my kitchen table. This is the first time in my 20-plus years as a voter I’ve struggled so much with my decision. I clearly remember “darkening the circle” for George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (despite[Read More…]
Editor’s Column: Squirrel!
We’ve got a squirrel (or two) living in the willow tree in our yard. Our upstairs window gives me a bird’s-eye view of squirrel world. Last week I watched Mr. or Mrs. Squirrel stuffing mouthfuls of willow leaves into his or her tree dwelling, insulating the nest, I assume. Like[Read More…]
