Author: Michelle Karas
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Making the best of a difficult staffing situation | From the Editor
Teachers have had an especially rough past couple of years. And yes, that’s an understatement. We’ve all had to deal with pandemic-related challenges, but our elementary and secondary school teachers, well, they’ve had to frequently roll with the new sets of difficulties and changes, and shift from classroom teaching to remote teaching to hybrids of…
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School Choice gives Colorado children more opportunities | From the Editor
This week is National School Choice Week, and Colorado governor Jared Polis has also named Jan. 23-29 as Colorado School Choice Week. Colorado’s Public Schools of Choice Law gives allows students to enroll in state school districts “for which they are not zoned,” states the Colorado Department of Education website. It’s also called Open Enrollment.…
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Get involved in your community | From the Editor
As part of the “Great Resignation” or the “Big Quit,” nearly 120,000 in Colorado quit their jobs in September, The Gazette reported recently (“The Great Resignation: Record numbers of Colorado workers are quitting their jobs. So where are they going?” Dec. 4). “That’s up from around 90,000 in July and August and nearly double the…
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Townwide fire mitigation planning a smart, necessary move | From the Editor
The question is not whether a fire could wreak havoc on the Town of Monument. We know that it could, similar to the fires that devastated Superior and Louisville last month at a cost of more than $513 million, destroying 1,100 structures and killing at least one man. The Black Forest Fire in 2013 destroyed…
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Resolving to bring you more food for thought this year | From the Editor
New year, new you? I’m totally on board with a yearly reassessment of goals and an affirmation of better eating habits, but after five decades of “new” years in my own life, I’m not convinced that new year’s resolutions work. Maybe they have some traction for a little while, like when you commit to a…
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Resolving to bring you more food for thought this year | From the Editor
New year, new you? I’m totally on board with a yearly reassessment of goals and an affirmation of better eating habits, but after five decades of “new” years in my own life, I’m not convinced that new year’s resolutions work. Maybe they have some traction for a little while, like when you commit to a…
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Lessons from a fire: Things can be replaced, people cannot | From the Editor
Watching in horror as entire neighborhoods went up in flames in Boulder County last week, I was reminded of the shock and sadness I felt 22 years ago, when my parents’ home was destroyed by fire. It’s not something you imagine happening to your family or friends — having a place called home destroyed in…
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Lessons from a fire: Things can be replaced, people cannot | From the Editor
Watching in horror as entire neighborhoods went up in flames in Boulder County last week, I was reminded of the shock and sadness I felt 22 years ago, when my parents’ home was destroyed by fire. It’s not something you imagine happening to your family or friends — having a place called home destroyed in…
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Another year-end shoutout to those who care for the sick | From the Editor
As I was trying to find the words for my final column of 2021, I took a look back at what I was writing a year ago. I started my Dec. 30, 2020 column like this: Soon it will be a new year … finally, thankfully. And there’s just one word I have for 2020:…
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Another year-end shoutout to those who care for the sick | From the Editor
As I was trying to find the words for my final column of 2021, I took a look back at what I was writing a year ago. I started my Dec. 30, 2020 column like this: Soon it will be a new year … finally, thankfully. And there’s just one word I have for 2020:…