In an ideal world there would be no line at the Crested Butte post office when you find a yellow slip …
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Things that irk
Irk. It’s sort of a space between being slightly irritated and really mad. It’s like when the zipper on your jacket …
Read More »Transparency
As a newspaper guy I appreciate transparency. It seems to go in waves, and this week I feel like there was …
Read More »Thankful…
So I’m sitting in the Crested Butte Town Council chambers before the start of last Monday’s meeting and former councilman Skip …
Read More »Honestly, a championship tastes even better when it’s over our sister town
This town has never needed a big excuse to hold a parade, but this Friday at 4 p.m. it has a …
Read More »Thoughts on the elections, age and Titans
Locally, we are fortunate that our politics remain civil. Our process reflects the place. We live and vote in a place …
Read More »OVPP: The philosophical and the practical
The State of the Valley according to the One Valley Prosperity Project—is better. The OVPP held a rally of sorts on …
Read More »County candidate endorsements: Mason and Gallowich
Picking a candidate to endorse in a local election is rarely easy. Those who step up in this county and throw …
Read More »Thoughts on the ballot issues
There is no shortage of proposed ballot issues this election. The state’s Blue Book was not thin this year. Here are …
Read More »If this is how you court me, what will it be like when we’re married?
That is a good question posed by the Mt. Crested Butte mayor this week. As the Corner at Brush Creek affordable …
Read More »Games
In the current period between fall and winter there are the unspoken games that must take place in every ski town. …
Read More »Work and sandpaper on a sunburn
Early word from people working up at the ski area is that the new owners of the resort are really pretty …
Read More »Of Vinotok and blue herons
The social media firestorm of what some people think about Vinotok is an irritating kerfuffle. A politically incorrect action is not …
Read More »Thoughts from the road
Once in the 1990s while I was hitchhiking in Australia, a man who picked me up offered me lunch at his …
Read More »Making Community
Editor’s Note: With Mark Reaman out of town, we thought that the topic of Molly Murfee’s column this week provided a …
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