We’ve only scraped the surface of the Epstein files and it’s already like I can’t get the water hot enough to feel clean. How I long for the good ol’ days, when Dick Cheney shooting someone on a hunting trip was the Big Coverup. Nothing so innocent with these guys. Not like Paul Newman and […]
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View from the Therapy Pool: What happened to the baby boomers?
Born in 1949, I’m a proud member of the baby boomers. You know, the generation that’s responsible for the biggest population explosion in this country in the 20th century as the World War II soldiers came home and found making love was a lot more fun than making war. We brought on the dawning of […]
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Letters – Feb. 19, 2026
Re: SafetyIn a few recent issues of The Sun, problems with pedestrian safety or signage or speeding were mentioned. One aspect of these issues where the Town of Carbondale could improve drastically is the marking of crosswalks. At a few busier intersections, tinted concrete crosswalks were built at considerable expense to provide permanent marking. However, […]
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Election reflections (among other musings)
On the first Monday of November – Election Day eve – my father would have turned 100. Election Day frequently fell on his birthday over his almost 87 years. He took voting very seriously, as did my mother (who would have been 99 in August), and they instilled in my sister and me a deep […]
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Letters – Nov. 6, 2025
Dear AmericaPresident Trump has unexpectedly stirred in me a long-dormant love of country and flag. For the first time, I feel truly patriotic — but perhaps not in the way you might think. As our democracy seems to be slipping away, faster than any of us imagined, my love for our nation’s ideals has been […]
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Letters – Sept. 25, 2025
Correction: The first snow on Sopris this year was Sept. 13, not 15. Promoting divisionIt’s disappointing to see The Sopris Sun continue to give Brian Colley a platform for what increasingly amounts to one-sided political jabs thinly veiled as satire. Colley’s column doesn’t aim to spark dialogue — it ridicules, dismisses and divides. That may […]
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Noticias locales: cultura, incendios, Comando Espacial y más
Descubre lo más relevante en noticias locales: celebración de la cultura latina, actualización de restricciones de incendios, debate por el Comando Espacial, investigación sobre la muerte de un lobo gris, oportunidades de vivienda en Glenwood Springs y el inicio de la temporada de caza. Por Sopris SunFiesta AméricasCelebra la cultura latinoamericana con música en vivo, […]
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Local public radio says, ‘We’re not going anywhere’
After months of concern that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) would be defunded, thus revoking federal dollars which local public radio stations rely on, the Rescissions Act was signed by President Donald Trump on July 24. According to www.congress.gov, the act revoked $9.4 billion — at the recommendation of the Trump administration — in […]
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La Cámara de Representantes de EE. UU. intensifica los recortes a la radio pública local
La Cámara de Representantes aprobó fuertes recortes a la financiación de medios públicos. APR y KDNK perderán más de $380,000 en apoyo federal.
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El abogado de Aspen Public Radio explica por qué está implicada en una demanda contra la administración Trump
Aspen Public Radio, Colorado Public Radio y KSUT Public Radio se han unido a NPR en una demanda contra la administración Trump. La demanda argumenta que la orden ejecutiva del presidente Trump del 1 de mayo, que amenaza con recortes de fondos federales a NPR y PBS, es inconstitucional, represalia y que el presidente no […]