Government is a core pillar of local, state, national and global society. We trust it to make and enforce rules and responsibly spend tax dollars. We rely on it to operate core functions for health, safety and finance. We ask it to provide additional services that enhance our quality of life. We elect representatives to […]
opinion
Posted inLetters
Letters – May 7, 2026
5-Point award — there’s moreWe accidentally missed an award in our first email and want to be sure we celebrate “Arctic Alchemy” for winning the Hayden Kennedy Award. This award represents the best of human endeavor to better understand and experience our world. Team 5PointNewsletter excerpt THANK YOU for your teachingWhen a member of our […]
Posted inLetters
Letters – April 30, 2026
Spring challengeCarbondale’s Bike, Pedestrian & Trails Commission and CLEER invite you to join the Carbondale Cares Spring Challenge. Walk, bike, bus or carpool and earn entries in multiple prize drawings. The challenge runs from May 1 through June 15. It’s good for you and great for Carbondale! Simply download the Two Rivers Connect app and […]
Posted inLetters
Letters – Jan. 22, 2026
Literacy Outreach appealThank you so much to The Sopris Sun for running a news brief about our information sessions and need for volunteer tutors. The meeting at the Carbondale Library on Jan. 16 was a success, but I would love to continue spreading the word about our program and our needs. Literacy Outreach is a […]
Posted inColumns
Ps&Qs: Coincidence and doll parts on Twining Flats Road
This life is crazy: full of beauty and wonder, but with a dark and dirty underside. The enactment of Project 2025 has us sliding down a hill as steep as any slope on Aspen Mountain, right toward fascism. Before the Heritage Foundation took hold of our government by the short hairs, the old rats-in-a-cage analogy […]
Posted inLetters
Letters – July 17, 2025
Correction: An extra “e” snuck into Pam Zentmyer’s name in last week’s Carbondale Report. Also, in “Pollinator Conservancy abuzz with intention,” Carbondale’s Pollinator Protection Resolution was mistakenly referred to as a “plan.” Re: Ps&QsCongratulations to Jeannie Perry on 20 years of reminding us to mind our Ps and Qs. And thanks to the Sopris Sun […]
Posted inColumns
Questioning housing capacity in the Roaring Fork Valley
By Siri Olsen A few months ago, Habitat for Humanity RFV President Gail Schwartz raised the issue of “carrying capacity” in one of her editorial columns in the Aspen Daily News. This is an issue I have been contemplating for the past several years. I am writing this column to encourage a community-wide discussion of […]
Posted inColumns
Mature Content: Science, reason and local government
Editor’s note: The opinions, including political endorsements, of columnists do not reflect those of The Sopris Sun. As a career healthcare provider, I believe in science; that is, in ideas and beliefs that have been subjected to persistent, unsuccessful attempts to disprove them. As a scientist, my mind is open to questions and new information. […]
Posted inOpinion
Guest Opinion: Keeping the party safe this summer
In honor of National Fentanyl Awareness Day, May 7, I’d like to call attention to growing concerns around overdose and the impact illegal fentanyl has in rural Colorado. Over the past few years, we’ve continued to lose friends, loved ones and neighbors to fentanyl overdoses in our community, often through unknown contamination in other drugs. […]
Posted inOpiniones
Elevando el Futuro-Si la puerta se cierra, entramos por la ventana
“La Administración del Seguro Social no puede confirmar su estatus de ciudadanía”, recuerdo haber leído esas palabras días después de completar la solicitud de FAFSA. En ese momento, como muchos estudiantes de la preparatoria, estaba llena de esperanzas y sueños de continuar con mi educación. En la escuela me dijeron que llenará la solicitud de […]