And more recently, there’s Putin. When he’s not wearing suits, rather bureaucratic-looking, like Kruschchev’s, he’s seen, shirtless, on a horse…
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: Personality Conflicts at Town Hall, Part Three
“I wouldn’t vote in favor of [this Resolution] under any scenario,” Mr. Ford explained, “but I think it does step over the line and makes it look like you’re politicking…”
HMPRESENTLY: jux·ta·pose
And with the Camden, New Jersey police chief recounting how a citizen in his community called up to ask: Hey chief, do you want to hold a banner with me?
EDITORIAL: Personality Conflicts at Town Hall, Part Two
One could easily form the impression that Mr. Schulte dislikes the very idea of taxpayer approvals — one of the cornerstones of taxation policy in Colorado…
LETTER: To My Fellow Coloradans
In recent days, many have observed that the current pandemic has exposed profound inequality in our society…
EDITORIAL: Personality Conflicts at Town Hall, Part One
Which brings me around to the Town’s new Urban Renewal Authority — the URA — and the ongoing political controversy surrounding it. You might even classify it as a ‘personality conflict’…
EDITORIAL: Dying Alone in a Nursing Home, Part Two
In an article on the FREOPP.org website, reporter Gregg Girvan referred to the nursing home crisis as the “most underappreciated aspect of the novel coronavirus pandemic…”
OPINION: Concerning the Colorado River
However, during this time the Imperial Valley was no sacred cow as Mr. Hudson’s editorial suggested. We were the sacrificial lamb…
OPINION: The Endgame for Small Towns
My hometown of Brainerd is a ward of the state. So is nearly every small town in America….
OPINION: The Pandemic Underlines America’s Ingrained Racism
We are now reaping the harvest of the seeds of racism and discrimination; the devaluation of black life in job opportunities, in buying and lending, in wages, positions, and treatment…
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part Three
“In some of your schools, it might be that almost everybody needs to be back, because they’re working parents, they’re single parents; they need the schools…”
HMPRESENTLY: Some Things Powerful and Hopeful, Over These Past Troubling Days
I’m making notes about some powerful, hopeful news, even as there’s almost unrelenting unrest in American cities…
EDITORIAL: Dying Alone in a Nursing Home, Part One
CMS — the federal bureaucracy that certifies nursing homes and writes the checks — has forbidden family members from visiting… certainly a cause for depression and feelings of abandonment…
EDITORIAL: A Season of Educational Confusion, Part One
This past Tuesday, May 26, members of the news media were invited to listen to a Zoom presentation by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE), featuring Colorado Education Commissioner Katy Anthes…
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part Three
My young granddaughters and I took a stroll through Pagosa’s Hilltop cemetery on Memorial Day. We don’t have any family members buried there, but we recognized some familiar names…
HMPRESENTLY: Sounding Authoritarian, a Little?
What’s that supposed to mean? That “all necessary measures” will be taken. Does it mean duck and cover, we’re cranking up our missiles?
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part Two
I think of my dear mother, one of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet, who passed away a few years ago at the ripe old age of 92…
OPINION: The Four Horsemen of This Apocalypse
Durer created the image more than 500 years ago… displaying the horsemen’s combined energies, and inspiring thought about the collective energies of our own apocalyptic horsemen…
EDITORIAL: Colorado’s Mysterious Death Statistics, Part One
A new disease, COVID-19, has appeared in the statistical records, and has passed up heart disease as a reported cause of death. But something else equally dramatic has taken place…