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CU political study highlights likely ballot winners, losers

The newly created American Politics Research Lab, housed in the Department of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, on Wednesday released its first pre-election study of C...

DATE: Nov 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Talk of the Times

Will the center hold for LPEA?

By Tom Givon The recent LPEA elections bring to mind four memorable lines from W.B. Yeats' poem, The Second Coming, from 1920: "Things fall apart, the center doesn't ...

DATE: Jul 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Rain, rain, it's OK (We hope)

Speaking of rain.... I feel like I'm caught in an endless loop of that Johnny Cash song "Five feet high and rising" where he sings "Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more ...

DATE: Jun 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Let's all swap our stuff on Yard Sale Day

Saturday is the big day here in Bayfield. No, it's not the 4th of July yet, it's Yard Sale Day. Either you're a bargain hunter out to find a forgotten Picasso, or a neat freak who...

DATE: Jun 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Southern Ute Police enforcing seatbelt laws to save lives

By Raymond N. Coriz Jr. If there is one thing I could urge all motorists - drivers, passengers, front seat, back seat, all ages - to do every time you get in a vehicle, it's buckl...

DATE: May 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Easter should be a holiday

I'm afraid Easter - the most important religious holiday of the year for Christians - is going the way of other holy days, turning into a secular opportunity to buy more stuff. He...

DATE: Apr 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

We're special, darn it, because we say so

All our children are above average, and we're special, and it's not just us that says so. OK, I'm joking about some of that, but sometimes it's good to have an outsider come to a ...

DATE: Mar 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Win or lose, we're proud of our basketball boys

The boys playing on the Bayfield basketball team have had three coaches in three years. They had an 11-10 season. They only had one league victory during the regular se...

DATE: Mar 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

On Monday morning, I will want my missing hour back

Spring forward and fall back. What a cutesy-foo-foo way of making our lives a veritable hell. I think Daylight Savings Time was invented to drive working mothers nuts. ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Whacky weather leads to random thoughts

We hope winter is coming back this weekend, but we've hoped for that during the past few storms that have shot right over us to the north, and we've had zip for snow. Don't get me...

DATE: Feb 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Thank you, Pine River Valley Bank, for 28 years

What makes a small place a real town, anyway? An old newspaper adage is that a town needs a school, a post office, a bar, a church, (to balance each other out, I suppose!) and a n...

DATE: Feb 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion

If you don't like dogs, don't have them

Actually, I think that applies to children, as well, but we'll stick to dogs for this week. I have a sad walk when I go to the post office in Bayfield because I have to pass two d...

DATE: Feb 5, 2015 | CATEGORY: Opinion