Contrary to popular opinion, the Sun is always changing. The variations in its apparent luminosity (called Total Solar Irradiance (TSI), which is the amount of the Sun’s power density that reaches the Earth’s upper atmosphere…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: ‘COVID, COVID, COVID’… Part One
“We now have 121,000 cases in Colorado. In the last day alone, 3,369 new coronavirus cases — an all-time daily high. We have 2,158 Coloradans who have passed away from this deadly virus…”
OPINION: ‘Save the Poudre’ Plans Lawsuit to Challenge NISP Water Project
Earlier this week, the Larimer Board of County Commissioners finalized its ‘Findings and Resolution’ (F&R) for the 1041 permit for the Northern Integrated Supply Project (NISP)…
LETTER: What Can We Do Together?
Abraham Maslow was a shrink who said human needs can be prioritized — with the two top needs being survival and safety. Hoot and holler all you want, but America is now sharing its super power status with China…
BOCC Approves Four New ‘Visionary Broadband’ Towers
Prior to the public hearing, County Attorney Todd Weaver reminded the commissioners that federal law prohibits local government boards from considering the reportedly harmful effects of radio frequency (RF) radiation…
EDITORIAL: The Glue that Holds Everything Together
This past year, it seemed like everything, and everyone, was coming unglued. The economy was coming unglued. Politicians of all stripes were coming unglued. Our healthcare system was coming unglued…
HMPRESENTLY: ‘This is Nuts,’ Our Friend Shouted… in a Text
I’m at my drawing board, right now, penciling out a business plan. Picturing in my mind having groups of people learning the fundamentals of speaking to each other…
EDITORIAL: A COVID Press Conference in Durango, Part Three
“I’m not as medically oriented as some of the previous presenters, but watching our community, in the City of Durango, we’re clearly entering a new phase of this pandemic…”
OPINION: It’s All Local Now
It is 2am and I’m writing an article I wasn’t planning to write. In fact, until my teenage daughters intervened, I was planning to have a nice dinner…
EDITORIAL: A COVID Press Conference in Durango, Part Two
“Our students absolutely appreciate the interactability that they have, the relationships that they have with their teachers and their peers. And they are able to do that safely as long as our community continues to support us…”
EDITORIAL: What We Probably Won’t Know, Tomorrow
On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court, by a vote of 4-3, ordered a statewide recount of all under-votes, over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed…
EDITORIAL: A COVID Press Conference in Durango, Part One
“Currently, in the state of Colorado, we believe that one out of every 219 individuals is infectious at this time. So, activities that you got away with over the last couple of weeks and months, you’re not going to be able to get away with any more…”
OPINION: Let’s Fight About the Future of Public Education
I’m convinced that how schools reconcile the events of 2020 will either hobble our country or usher in a new chapter of progress. Can we handle the debate?
EDITORIAL: I Think I’m a Nice Person, Part Two
“And we just got great polls out of, you probably heard, out of Arizona, we’re getting them out of Nevada. The real polls, not the fake polls….”
HMPRESENTLY: A National Day of Remembrance?
Sadly, the November 1, 2020 ‘National Day of Remembrance for Americans Killed by Illegal Aliens’, declared by President Trump a few days before the election, seems to be a PR ploy…
EDITORIAL: I Think I’m a Nice Person, Part One
Legend has it, that upon entering the temple at Delphi in ancient Greece, a person was treated to three aphorisms. The first was “Know Thyself”, carved into the stone above the entrance to the forecourt…
HMPRESENTLY: What Idioms!
“In California, you have a special mask. You cannot under any circumstances take it off. You have to eat through the mask,” said President Trump, quippingly…
OPINION: Proposition 114 More Crucial Following Federal Wolf De-listing
In Colorado, the wolf has been functionally extinct for nearly 80 years and remains so today. More than ever, we need wolves to restore the balance in our mountain ecosystems…
EDITORIAL: Colorado Counties Struggle to Stay ‘Open’
“I know we are all very tired of the virus. Fatigue is setting in. That’s why we’re seeing these numbers increase. But the virus is not tired of us. It’s still deadly…”