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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Letters – March 30, 2023
Corrections: In the GarCo Report, Lift-Up Development Director Sheila Maurer’s last name was misspelled. In “Carbondale prepares to spray at Nature Park,” the word “half-life” was mistakenly written as “life-life.” Access vs. wildlife Living in a county where 83% of the land is public is incredibly wonderful. But some groups are advocating for more access. […]
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En Movimiento: Ser feminista, la practica v. la teoría
Recientemente en una plática de la familia, le hice una pregunta directa a las mujeres de mi núcleo. Les pregunté si ellas se consideraban feministas y qué entendían por feminismo. Teniendo en cuenta que la mayoría de ellas están entre los 55 años en adelante, vi muchas ideas similares a lo que interpretan que es […]
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Críticas: La lucha del inmigrante nunca termina
Una vez, estoy seguro que como algo casual, mi madre me dijo esto: “Si tuviera que trabajar como quitacaca. Sería la mejor quitacaca”. Cuando era niño, recuerdo que mi papá estaba fuera de casa durante la semana por cuestiones de trabajo. Finalmente, volvía a casa el viernes para pasar el fin de semana. Polvoriento. Aceitoso. […]
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Scientists have to prove it
A certain segment of our society repeatedly rejects science and the guidance it gives us on how to conduct our lives. The existence of evolution, climate change and the coronavirus pandemic are ignored as figments of some egghead’s imagination. When I took a beginning science class early in my high school years, the teachers taught […]