- Schools confront reading challenge
- March 19, 2010
- Every kid confronts the mystery of the printed page. Some hit school thoroughly prepared.
- Political pork still sputters and sizzles
- March 16, 2010
- Earmarks. Terrible stuff. Unless you happen to really, really need the bridge, or the paved road, or the thinned forest.
- Good day for Rim Country
- March 12, 2010
- The voters came through for the Rim Country on Tuesday. Voters showed up and made a series of crucial decisions that demonstrate their commitment to one another and this, the beloved community.
- Not too late to vote on region’s future
- March 9, 2010
- One last plea. If you haven’t voted, it’s not too late. The stakes remain high. The budget override will determine whether the Payson Unified School District weathers the impending budget hailstorm or withers for lack of community support.
- College suffers more double talk
- March 5, 2010
- Big tuition increase. Big enrollment drop. Gee: Who would’a figured? Anyway you look at it, the latest enrollment figures from Gila Community College (GCC) are depressing.
- Rim Country’s future on line in voting
- March 2, 2010
- Vote early. Whoops. Too late. Soon, it’ll be too late to vote at all. So please rummage about, find your ballot and cast a vote for the future of your community.
- Can the bald eagles survive?
- February 26, 2010
- Great flocks of eagles now gather when the salmon spawn on streams in Alaska. And that’s a great comfort — considering how close we came to losing this marvelous national symbol.
- Payson won’t take it out on the students
- February 24, 2010
- The bad news continues to mount for the schools that will determine the future of this community. Most recently, elementary schools in the Payson School District have been cutting key programs, struggling to cope with reductions in state funding.
- Odd votes, dark plots
- February 19, 2010
- You know why peace is symbolized by a white dove? So darn fragile — so easy to wring the little bird’s neck, leaving you with a sad flutter of feathers. Don’t take our word for it — just read the latest report out of the Star Valley Town Council, where a spasm of second thoughts underscores how easy it would be to destroy the fragile truce in the Rim Country water wars.
- Tough times pose tough tests for all
- February 12, 2010
- Last month, when the Payson Town Council furloughed town workers and imposed $1 million in fresh cuts, we hoped they were overreacting.
- Great day for Rim Country
- February 9, 2010
- Next thing you know, we’ll all have rubber duckies.
- Not an act of God, just official stupidity
- February 5, 2010
- Back in 1993, a brush fire rushed out of the California chaparral and consumed 400 homes in posh Laguna Beach. The flames tore through thick brush, leaping 50 feet in the air and generating temperatures of 2,000 degrees.
- Time to end forest wars
- February 2, 2010
- Seasons change. So do people. Sometimes even bureaucracies.
- GCC board’s bizarro world
- January 29, 2010
- Did you hear the one about the guy who killed his parents — then threw himself on the mercy of the court on the grounds that he was an orphan?
- School advocates must make their case for override
- January 26, 2010
- Fool me once – shame on you. Fool me twice – shame on me.
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