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Loose Ends: Shop at home first

MEEKER | Supporting small businesses has always been a part of community life. That is, it was the underpinning of a healthy local economy, until the economic upheaval caused by COVID-19 threatened to make shopping for the necessities of life more difficult. The bloating of the corporate conglomerates such as[Read More…]

February 22, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: This is how it is now

MEEKER | This is how it is now — no same old/same old, no business as usual — as we all attempt to go back to our daily lives. Reading a magazine article recently I came across that phrase and the obtuse “new normal” that is used to describe daily[Read More…]

February 6, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Opinion

No more ‘new normal’

MEEKER | Is there anyone among us who can claim to know “what’s what“ anymore? Recently a famous actor appeared in a television advertisement that urged viewers to take his advice by obtaining a reverse mortgage. He (and his commercial sponsors) count on his familiarity, as well as his successful[Read More…]

January 21, 2021 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Resolutions

MEEKER | Are you tired of making resolutions year after year, only to watch them fade away shortly after making them? According to a study done by social scientists, most of us are not tired of this tradition. The majority of us continue to try to make a new start[Read More…]

January 8, 2021 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: “It is what it is”

MEEKER | “It is what it is” is the latest phrase to crop up in our daily conversations. It is an earworm without music. Most of us pride ourselves on “telling it like it is” and a few regions of our country are better at it than others. Westerners are[Read More…]

January 1, 2021 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: It’s still about family

MEEKER | The real story of Thanksgiving is rooted in family. No matter what actually transpired between the Native American and the Europeans, who arrived on the shores of this New World, recognition of the importance of family and friends traditionally gathering is clear. No matter one’s material wealth, getting[Read More…]

November 26, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Opinion

I STILL get to … (fill in the blank)

MEEKER | Ever since a hometown boy posted a photo of both covers of my picture books on his Facebook page with the words “Look what I get to read tonight,” for his toddler son’s nightly read aloud bedtime story, I think of all things I get to do. I[Read More…]

November 17, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Oct. 22, 2020

Noise MEEKER | Business as usual is a phrase that comes to mind when talking about the health of the local economy. I was surprised when Mesa County’s executive director Robin Brown was quoted in an article in mid-September in the Grand Junction Sentinel saying that “We are so used[Read More…]

October 22, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: A place at the table

MEEKER | Years ago as a reporter, I first became aware of the need for local government to send representatives over to Denver to make sure decisions about our area were not being made without us. The Piceance Basin was booming and plans were being made to handle the influx[Read More…]

October 8, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Number Jumble

By DOLLY VISCARDI | Special to the Herald Times MEEKER | They say it is all in the numbers. Any change in government policy and reasoned decision-making should be reflected in the digits in the data. Local governments often turn to paid consultants to look at the numbers and interpret[Read More…]

October 1, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Far and away

RBC I Living in the northwest corner of Colorado for only part of a lifetime gives one a different perspective about distance. Those old sayings people use to describe the proximity of a place often didn’t work. There seemed to be few places that could be described to be just up the[Read More…]

September 18, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled

Loose Ends: Rascals in. Rascals out.

MEEKER | Rascals in. Rascals out. More than 125 years ago, those two phrases were this paper’s editor’s words of choice to describe the political machinations that move below most of our country’s surface. That continues to happen today. Everyone’s perspective differs depending on their own agendas and allegiances. The[Read More…]

August 28, 2020 by Dolly Viscardi Comments are Disabled