Crisis in the Canyon – Project THOR team proud to Provide Public Safety fix in a pinch We may need to get used to re-routing our trips that involve the canyon because with burn scars and rainfall, we cannot rely on a single route through the mountains. The same is Read more…
If the past 18 months threw off your balance, and external uncertainty left a low-grade anxiety lingering across your organization, maybe you should re-consider your collective work habits. I’m reading Cal Newport’s A World Without Email concurrently with a virtual 8 -week mindfulness course. I highly recommend both to reconnect Read more…
The suffering from COVID entered our house, bringing a perspective to national issues along with it. My 21-year old son contracted COVID in late September with minimal impact. Within a month a progressively severe outbreak of ulcerative colitis set in, and then myocarditis, which he experienced like a heart attack. Read more…
I am not a big fan of celebrations, especially those which arbitrarily mark a beginning or end, but in this year the familiarity of a closure ritual, especially one that gives some kind of personal reboot, is absolutely vital to our mental health. So, during one of the longest, coldest Read more…
On a solo hiking trip in the desert the last week of October, I shared 5 hours in a middle school gym in Kanab, Utah with over 100 other COVID-masked travelers hoping to get permission to enter one hike on my list. After hiking with friends in the San Rafael Read more…
Is Violence again Political Speech in America? November 6, 2020: Post Election Day before Winner Declared: The integrity of the U.S. Election is under a full-scale attack led by one man: the President who appears to be losing. Trump continues to tweet and call out “massive election fraud” and “a Read more…
Are you a satanic villain, or are they? “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone Read more…
According to the Colorado Department of Education’s needs inventory, more than 65,000 students in Colorado lack internet access at home. Eagle County School District Superintendent, Philip Qualman shared results from a survey the district did during the extended COVID closure last spring which found that “8% of ECSD students don’t Read more…
It’s time to check-in with your County Clerk I spoke with Janice Vos Caudill, Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder who just completed a primary election on June 30th to ask her about the challenges of running an election and to put into perspective what we are hearing from the national Read more…
Some of the most elegant solutions in public management are also simple. Avon has done significant work to improve streetscapes, and pedestrian friendliness in recent years with significant public outreach and extended planning exercises, including a paint it, and live it before you build it experimental approach to planning. Years Read more…