Our View

Community needs mending
July 3, 2009
What this town needs is a good coffee shop
School board weighs controversial cupcakes
June 30, 2009
Here’s the most irritating thing about kids.
Turning spigots, changing ideas
June 26, 2009
Turn the tap. Fill the glass. Drink deep. So easy — deceptively so.
GCC board needs more local control
June 23, 2009
Gila Community College’s recently approved popcorn budget — airy and without substance — is indicative of a broader problem. The college has no autonomy.
Seeking birds, finding a father
June 19, 2009
The wind rustled through the spiny oak leaves as my father and I read the small sign beside the paved trail, which explained the greatest variety of birds occurs at the edge of two habitats — like oak woodlands and the grasslands.
Mourning a teacher
June 16, 2009
So many people feel such deep grief at the loss of Cynthia Pool, a chemistry teacher at Payson High School.
A flag woven from sacrifice
June 12, 2009
One day in 1908 as he dined outside of Philadelphia, President Theodore Roosevelt noticed a man wiping his nose with a small American flag.
Which sort are you?
June 9, 2009
How many times have you hiked up some beautiful spot — let’s say the East Verde River — and shook your head in disgust at a discarded beer can, a trashed camp site, or a candy bar wrapper?
Council’s courage key to housing
June 9, 2009
Poor Tantalus, punished for revealing the secrets of the Greek gods with eternal hunger and thirst. He stood parched in a room waist deep in water, which receded whenever he stooped to take a drink. He starved, never dying, beneath a great tree groaning with fruit, whose branches rose whenever he reached for them.
Tax hearing: tough call, but right one
June 5, 2009
The Payson Town Council last night thought hard, swallowed twice — then did the right thing.
Blue Ridge grant vital to our future
June 2, 2009
Go team! So it looks like Payson will be the first community in the state to actually spend its federal stimulus money – thanks to the marathon efforts of the town staff, spearheaded by Mayor Kenny Evans.
Dialogue with public crucial
May 29, 2009
Fear-based policies are bad policies. Unwritten, fear-based policies are even worse. And unwritten, fear-based policies that violate existing, written policies? That is incomprehensible.
Memorial Day: Words fail, but memory endures
May 26, 2009
The sun shone. The breeze blew. The bright orange poppies trembled. The children laughed. The smell of bacon and flapjacks lured teenagers out of their beds.
Funny numbers
May 22, 2009
Let us get this straight. Lots of people have spent years working on a plan to make Main Street more pedestrian friendly — so it can serve as a busy street front for tourists and residents.
Quiet revolution finished in Pine
May 19, 2009
Bucking broncs. Whooping cowboys. Roaring spitfires. Whirling helicopters.

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