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Mar. 4, 2020
News Analysis: Precinct caucuses on March 7 offer grassroots participation
We completed voting in the presidential primary this week, but did you know we still have precinct caucuses?
Caucuses take place every two years and are a function of Colorado’s Democratic and Republican parties. Democratic and Republican party caucuses will be held, across Colorado, on Saturday, March… read more →
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Feb. 26, 2020
Review: Love and obsession in ‘View from the Bridge’
It’s tough enough being immigrants in the 1950s in New York City, much less an Italian immigrant family fighting for the good life. Add in complicated and troubling romantic entanglements and you have a recipe for disaster — and tragedy — in this latest Thunder River Theatre Company… read more →
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Feb. 12, 2020
Sun Signs: Anatomy of a Retrograde
By now, most people have heard of Mercury retrograde.
It is one facet of astrology that has made its way into the mainstream. Mercury retrograde is known for complicating travel plans, confusing communication, messing up technology, and eliciting all sorts of frustrating shenanigans when you are… read more →
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Feb. 3, 2020
My personal recycling adventure
1970: Eugene, Oregon — glass only. We took our children to a warehouse, remains of which were concrete walls. The town provided goggles. We could fling glass bottles and jars against the wall and the town eventually picked up the broken glass. What fun!
Late ‘80s: Carbondale —… read more →
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Jan. 22, 2020
News Analysis: Journalists need advocates, too
As the Colorado Press Association prepared to meet Jan. 17, a Colorado judicial branch committee had a scheduled — ironically closed-door — meeting to consider a new rule on the sealing of criminal court records.
According to Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition Executive Director Jeffrey A.… read more →
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Dec. 24, 2019
A year of transition for The Sun
This isn’t really the same newspaper it was a year ago.
For one thing, it’s a different team.
Other than myself, Tommy Sands
has been the sole remaining fixture on
the staff in 2019. (Lee Beck has also
held down her volunteer proofing position). Terri Ritchie, Carol… read more → -
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Dec. 11, 2019
Review: Musical satire that will knock your socks off
“The Doyle and Debbie Show’’ performance at Thunder River Theatre Company(TRTC) is a hysterical romp through the raucous, honky tonk world of the Nashville country music scene.
From the play’s opening scene with a background recording of “Whiskey for my men and beer for my horses”… read more →
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Oct. 9, 2019
Times have changed, but it’s good to be back in the newsroom
The silence is one of the biggest differences. Today, sitting in front of my reporter’s desk at the Sopris Sun, I don’t hear the click clack of typewriter keys or the whoosh of the handle as I go to the following line. No enter or return button here.… read more →
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Oct. 2, 2019
Review: Not just a walk in the park
As the United States still stands on the brink of nuclear war after the nearly 75 years since the bombing of Hiroshima,Japan, at the end of World War II, live theater in Carbondale rises to the challenge of portraying echoes of history as today’s reality.
The… read more →
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Aug. 14, 2019
Weaving together a can’t-miss exhibit
What does the pairing of painting and textiles have in common? Everything, it seems, at the latest dual exhibition at the Carbondale Arts’ Launchpad galleries.
This amazing exhibition features three artists. The first exhibit, “Post-Frontier Landscapes,” is by Julia Crocetto, working primarily in textiles including… read more →
