Our View: 2017 could be year Rocky Fork fulfills its promise
Could 2017 be the year that the first real steps of meeting the promise of the Rocky Fork Lake region are finally taken?Rocky Fork...
The true spirit of Christmas
Another Christmas has come and gone, and it seems to happen in an instant. After weeks of preparation, buying gifts, putting up decorations and...
Our View: Tom Horst an example of good public service
Tom Horst’s retirement as a Highland County Commissioner brings to a close four decades of honorable, dedicated and effective public service by one of...
White Christmas not all that common
After yet another Christmas passing without so much as one snowflake, I looked into some things.Incidentally, I came across this little ditty that I...
Elections: Who cares who’s ahead?
Why do voters need to know who is winning or losing a political campaign before the votes are counted?In the wake of Donald Trump’s...
Returning land to private owners
You might be surprised who the biggest landowner is in the United States. It’s the federal government. By a long shot. And thousands of...
Seeing beyond the bubble
It is not that I or any of us are ignorant, not completely anyway. We all know terrible things are going on in the...
Christmas through the years
At the age of 6, he woke up Christmas morning before the sun was up. Had Santa Claus come yet? As quietly as he...
Buy American right thing to do
“Buy American and hire American.”“Buy America is the right thing to do.” – Donald Trump, Tuesday, December 13, 2016.At a rally in Cincinnati this...
A friendship that will last forever
When my daughter was scared on the first day of kindergarten, Gabby held her hand as they climbed the stairs onto the big yellow...
