Viewpoint: Reflections on teachers

I’m getting all geared up for the Rye High School graduation on Thursday night. Sixty seniors will say goodbye to high school and move into the next phase of their lives. We’ll have the complete story next week.Salary.

Viewpoint: Goodbye Old Friend

One night last week, Lori and I began searching the internet to find out what we could about old friends we had lost track of. You know those people you promised yourself you would stay in touch with, but didn’t.You were introduced to one of them in a January 30, 2024 Viewpoint.

Viewpoint: Local Government at It’s Best

A Pew Research poll shows that just 9% of Democrats say they trust the federal government at a great or fair amount. Republicans give federal government a 26% great or fair amount of trust. The numbers were almost exactly the opposite during the Biden Administration.

Viewpoint: Presidential Line of Succession in Place No Matter What

In September, of 2016, the political thriller drama, Designated Survivor starring Kiefer Sutheland, aired on ABC. Sutherland stars as Thomas Kirkman, an American academic named as the designated survivor for the State of the Union address, and moves from the U.S.

Viewpoint: What Animal is Most Likely to Kill You?

Growing up on a farm in Western Kansas and raising cattle, I developed a lot of respect for the possible danger when one of our cattle had a new baby calf.

Weekly Devotion: Does Familiarity Breed Contempt?

“ This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body.

Viewpoint: Springsteen

In the Saturday Night Live skit, Coffee Talk, Mike Myers played a stereotypical Jewish woman with a New York accent.In the skit ‘she’ would make the statement, “America has been very, very good to me.”On his current tour, prices for Bruce Springsteen concert tickets average about $1,170.67.

Viewpoint: After Easter is No Time to Lay an Egg - or is it?

I’ve known for weeks that it was time. I write enough that the signs are clear. This week is the time to write something not so serious. Look at where we’ve been. The attempt to legalize prostitution. The oppression of Christians and religious freedom around the world.

Viewpoint: Over 350,000 Families Mourn for Murdered Loved Ones

I was saddened by the repetitive investigation of whether any progress had been made on the murder of Fred Ettleman. The answer was no.According to statistics compiled by The Murder Accountability Project, of the 10.911 homicides committed in Colorado between 1965 and 2024, 31% of those (3.

Valley Voices

EDITORIAL AND READERS’ OPINI O NSViewpoint: A Round of Thank You’s to the Colorado SenateThank you, Democrat Julie Gonzales, Chairperson for the Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee from the Denver area. Thank you, Democratic Vice-Chairman Mike Weissman representing Adams County.