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Guest Column: Myths and facts about sexual abuse

EDITOR’S NOTE: Warning: The subject matter and content of this article may be a trigger for individuals who have suffered sexual abuse. By Julie Drake Special to the Herald Times RBC | I bumped up hard against some shocking concepts this week. They were eye-opening. I attended a course called[Read More…]

February 10, 2018 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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{Guest Column} Millennial Musings: Why my generation needs to read the paper

I’m not a fan of labels, especially ones that come with a whole set of preprogrammed behaviors, mannerisms, styles and even color schemes (ever heard of millennial pink?) But technically, I’m a “millennial.” I like the term “Generation Y” a lot better, or as I like to say, “Generation WHY.”[Read More…]

February 3, 2018 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

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{Guest Column} Teacher to class: ‘Can you hear me now?’

By JOYCE RANKIN Special to the Herald Times RBC | “It’s just common sense.” How many times have you heard this phrase and thought “If only more people would just use common sense”? I was thinking that during a conversation with Dan Snowberger, school superintendent in Durango. Dan and I,[Read More…]

January 30, 2018 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Guest Column: Congress must ensure healthy forests and secure watersheds

By ANDY MUELLER Special to the Herald Times RBC | It’s not fire season right now—or at least it shouldn’t be—but continuing drought and seemingly constant shifts in “normal” weather patterns set the stage for record-setting, winter wildfires in California that cost the federal government billions to contain, all which[Read More…]

January 29, 2018 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Guest Column: There’s a ditch on both sides

RBC | I have fun childhood memories of my grandparents’ ranch. They didn’t have livestock —unless you count the extremely obnoxious Appaloosas who would swipe your soda and suck it down in three seconds flat—but they had all the other essentials. Rusty trucks, barbed wire, endless hay bales and yards[Read More…]

January 26, 2018 by Caitlin Walker Comments are Disabled

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Guest Column: Hoping Congress comes up with healthy solutions

By Julie Drake Special to the Herald Times RBC | Whew, 2017 is in the books. Time to put away holiday decorations and start a new year with new ambitions. Did you do the year end health insurance shuffle? Come year end, we get out our health insurance statements and[Read More…]

January 8, 2018 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Editor’s Column: If not you, then who?

Here we are, four days into 2018. If you made resolutions and are still keeping them, congratulations. If you’ve already fallen off the wagon, it’s not too late to get back on! Why do humans make new year’s resolutions, anyway? As far as I can tell, my dogs haven’t made[Read More…]

January 6, 2018 by editor Comments are Disabled

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{Guest Column} Meeker School District: Facilities were worse than expected

By Chris Selle Special to the Herald Times RBC | “We know problems are present… we just don’t know how bad they are.” This was the prevailing thought when the Meeker School District engaged in a facilities master plan process in order to quantify the need for our facilities. Following[Read More…]

December 26, 2017 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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{Guest Column} Across the Street: Preparing students for an unforeseen future

By Joyce Rankin Special to the Herald Times RBC | Road Trip: I attended the Summit on Education Reform in Nashville, Tenn. Jeb Bush opened the conference and repeated a quote from the first conference in 2008: “The country’s school system is an 8-track in an iPod world. The irony[Read More…]

December 26, 2017 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

Guest Column: RBC Republican party chair wants people to get involved

By Logan Hill Special to the Herald Times RBC | Since being elected as the Rio Blanco County Republican Committee chairman one of my goals has been to communicate with the community about issues of importance, both locally and on the larger scale. Of course, this information wouldn’t be complete[Read More…]

December 24, 2017 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled

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Editor’s Column: There may be monsters, just don’t become one

By niki turner [email protected] I read a great quote this week by 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche that seems more applicable now than maybe ever before. Nietzsche wrote, “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss, the[Read More…]

December 22, 2017 by editor Comments are Disabled

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{Guest Column} Health & Wellness: Qualitative and quantitative data important to quality of life

By Julie Drake Special to the Herald Times RBC | Busy month full of thoughts and meetings, some with an environmental bent and others with a behavioral and physical health emphasis, all with the general purpose of making Rio Blanco County better, whether improvement of the human condition or the[Read More…]

December 19, 2017 by Special to the Herald Times Comments are Disabled