Here in Gunnison County, we needed a new courthouse long before we got one. As with most things in government — probably all of Life — what seems like a simple statement of fact quickly becomes mired in controversy and outcry. We need a new courthouse. No, we don’t. The courthouse is unsafe and falling […]

Over the course of the last two months, including a trip to Montrose and back, I probably spent 12 cumulative hours in cars. Until Friday, when over the course of three days I logged 16 hours in vehicle seats. This is just not how I live my life. I tried to intersperse this drive time […]

I don’t know what it is about meetings recently, but they are not being conducted to my satisfaction. I went to one on Thursday, knowing the venue was an extremely poor choice — but it was worse than I was expecting. On the one hand, this was good, because it was a meeting to (ostensibly) […]

Have you ever read The Phantom Tollbooth? It’s a children’s book, perhaps young adult, by Norton Juster. I first encountered it when an excerpt appeared in my sixth-grade reading book, and sometime later I acquired the entire book. It’s one of my favorites, and I still enjoy reading it. I highly recommend it. In the […]

This is not actually about a travel I’ve taken, but one I am planning to take. And I know it is ill-advised to advertise one’s absence from home on the internet while the absence is taking place, but would-be thieves be forewarned: everyone else, particularly the vicious guard animals, is staying in place. This was […]

Food would not be food if it were not lightly sautéed in disdain and sprinkled with thin shavings of judgment. –Alexandra Petri It doesn’t seem to matter what I eat — it is wrong. But it probably doesn’t matter what you eat, either — it is also wrong. Yesterday, for whatever reason, my joints really […]

If ever there was an event that didn’t need more hype, it’s the Super Bowl — but CBS seems to have missed the obvious. You would think, the way their news division is carrying on, that this is the network’s first chance in a long time to show you how it can cover The Game, […]

For the last several years, I have shared a Denver Post subscription with one of my many friends named Bob. But I believe we got our last paper yesterday. I just can’t countenance spending the money they ask for the product they deliver. I don’t blame the staff, what’s left of it, but I have […]

Here is the first thing we should all know today: yesterday my solar panels at work produced 10.6 kilowatt hours of power. 10.6! That’s not quite half a lap at the Monaco Grand Prix. (I have no idea why the solar-monitoring company, Enlighten, uses what it does for comparisons. Perhaps they think this is a […]

Yesterday’s reading material all led in a dark direction I hardly expected when I took it up, and that seems to be what’s on my mind today, so I’ll just drag you all down with me — although if we follow it through, what I read ultimately leads to uplift. Everything started innocuously enough. At […]