On Saturday morning cartoons in my childhood, we watched the Roadrunner and the Jetsons. The Jetsons started each episode by introducing George Jetson as the breadwinner in a futuristic world where everyone has a flying car. George’s job at Spacely Space Sprockets was titled “digital index operator.” George pushed buttons[Read More…]
Tag: Opinion
EDITOR’S COLUMN – The ‘Othering’
“You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms with the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain, and an athlete, and a basket case, a princess, and a criminal.” ― The Breakfast Club Othering is[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – What if our emotional energy is the latest commodity for sale?
“Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.” ― Vincent Van Gogh I was horrified by the 1977 book “Coma,” where unsuspecting hospital patients are rendered comatose and their healthy organs harvested for sale. A similar premise[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – Change is tough. It’s also unavoidable.
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” ― Robert Fulghum Ah, change. That’s practically a four-letter word around these parts. I chuckle a little when folks who’ve been here a year[Read More…]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Tell your stories at the Pioneers dinner and dance Dear Editor: The Rio Blanco County Pioneers dinner and dance is Saturday. If you aren’t interested in the dinner and “meeting,” come for the dance. It’s just $10. And – best of all, starting at 3 p.m., you can share your[Read More…]
CNCC CORNER
CNCC is gearing up for the start of the new academic year with the first day of classes starting on Aug. 19, 2024. Prior to classes starting, athletic events will have been firmly underway. Athletes competing in Fall sports return starting Aug. 1, 2024. Rodeo starts its season away beginning[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN : The stories that color our lives
“You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built in the human plan. We come with it.” ― Margaret Atwood, author of “The Handmaid’s Tale” Humans are wired for storytelling. Before the written word, before the printing press, before radio or television or the internet, we preserved our history, our[Read More…]
LOOSE ENDS: Back to school vibes
The back to school advertising campaigns have been bombarding one and all for the past few weeks. As a teacher and parent, now a grandparent, I appreciate preparedness but continue to prefer everyone wait until mid-August. I know once the summer sales overlap with school supplies, both consumers and businesses[Read More…]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – August 1st, 2024
Gratitude from the Clyde Slaugh family Dear Editor: The family of Clyde Slaugh would like to send out a huge thank you to everyone who helped, called, text, sent prayers, came by, brought food, or helped in any way possible. We appreciate you all so much. A few special thanks[Read More…]
Editor’s Column – The parable of the two travelers
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” ― Viktor Frankl, “Man’s Search for Meaning” I came across this parable months ago, lost it, and just found it again.[Read More…]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR – July 25th, 2024
Share your family story for history at the Pioneers Association dinner/dance Dear Editor: Everyone has a story. Every story is worth telling. And saving. You may think your story isn’t interesting, or that it doesn’t have enough history. But it IS interesting and it IS history, unless it hasn’t happened yet.[Read More…]
EDITOR’S COLUMN – Thoughts become words, words become actions
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it…”― Martin Luther King, Jr. If you’ve ever played Pictionary, you’ve watched (or been) the person tasked with communicating a clue grow increasingly animated[Read More…]
