Op/Ed: What do we have a right to believe? A counter-argument
Having read the challenging piece on May 14, 'You don't have the right to believe whatever you want to', I feel that since the piece was intended to be challenging, perhaps it should be challenged. The basic premise of the text by Professor DeNicola was that some beliefs are too toxic for people to be allowed to hold them. ...
Choose your new City Council! Here are the candidates' answers.
NOTE: This item is still up because more voters may need to read it before the election. Candidates who responded (all but one) have answered nine questions. This year, Rosslanders get to choose who will form our new City Council and shape Rossland for the next four years. Mayor Kathy Moore has been acclaimed, but we have six...
UPDATED: Don't vote for Zwicker! He explains why.
[Ed.: Please -- do NOT vote for Andrew zwicker in the upcoming civic election. He has withdrawn from candidacy, but too late to have his name taken off the ballot. If people vote for him anyway in a misguided show of support, it would trigger an expensive by-election and cost taxpayers money. And no, the City is not allowed...
Op/Ed: Religion is very good at managing emotion
By Stephen T. Asma, from Aeon Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was properly unseated by science. Most religious lay-people and even clergy agree: Pope John Paul II declared in 1996 that evolution is a fact and Catholics should get over it. No doubt some ...
Electoral Reform: Checking the facts -- Part one
Electoral reform fact check: the series -- #1 Both sides of the Proportional Representation (“ProRep”) debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be. What should voters believe? Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides, to distinguish...
COLUMN: Can treating for SIBO relieve my IBS?
What is SIBO? SIBO (Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth) happens when bacteria that normally populates the large intestine moves back and colonizes the small intestine. When this happens, food that is typically fermented in the large intestine starts being fermented in the small intestine, causing symptoms of bloating...
Six cabins for Paradise; Follies quandary; more glyphosate sprayed on Oregon grape; Allan Davies and paperwork
Regular Rossland City Council Meeting, September 24, 2018 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Andrew Zwicker and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Andy Morel Public Input Period: Lisa Henderson spoke on behalf of the Gold Fever Follies. She explained that the Gold Fever Follies...
Rossland Street Lights, by the numbers
Rossland City Council held a Committee of the Whole meeting, 3:00 pm, September 24, 2018 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Andrew Zwicker and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Andy Morel Bright lights, or dark skies? There are advocates for both. Rossland Council has tried to...
COLUMN: Observations of Chaos from my Watchtower
“All along the watchtower…There's too much confusion, the hour is getting late... Bob Dylan “Here we are in the years… Children cry in fear, ‘let us out of here.’” Neil Young By Charles Jeanes So much food for thought, and limited space on the plate...
What's happening in the Rossland Range Recreation Site?
The short answer: LOTS. What IS the Rossland Range Recreation Site? Readers who aren’t familiar with the Rec Site can find information about it at this link, including maps, history, pictures, and much more. Recent days have seen helicopter delivery of materials to continue the refurbishment of the Old Glory Fire Lookout...
