Some would say incestuous. The old boyâs network in Mesa County is alive and grifting.
Weâre all to blame, actually. But itâs not a good look for a new commission and not a good look for the community.
Worse is the mumbo jumbo she and commissioners are spewing to justify the action. Note that thereâs been no reference to Puglieseâs expertise in municipal law, her body of work winning cases on behalf of local government or her clear understanding of Coloradoâs sunshine statutes that promote open government.
Instead, Mesa County citizens are being asked to accept that the job isnât really about good lawyering â itâs about sharing the same âvaluesâ and âguiding principlesâ of the elected commissioners and implementing them. See Charles Ashbyâs story in todayâs paper for Commissioner Janet Rowlandâs take on the job.
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100 years on, Main Street divide endures New exhibit about Sinclair Lewis, author of the seminal novel about small-town America, opens at the Minnesota History Center.
By John Rash, Rash Report April 9, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Novel.
As a noun, an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex and deals especially with human experience through a usually connected sequence of events. As an adjective, original or striking especially in conception or style.
Combining these dictionary definitions, an insightful writer might weave a story about the era s defining issues, like a pandemic. Or race relations, religious or political demagoguery, or the deepening divide between rural and urban America.
Sinclair Lewis Exhibit Opening at Minnesota History Center
Lewis was born in Sauk Centre in 1885 and stayed there until he graduated from high school. Lead Exhibit Developer
Patrick Coleman says after leaving to go to Yale for college he came back to the state often throughout his life.
He actually lived all over Minnesota. He lived in both St. Paul and Minneapolis. He lived in Mankato. He lived kind of famously in Duluth and wrote quite a bit of fictional Duluth into his work. And, not only that, but he came back often for vacations.
Coleman says it was the book Main Street that really launched his career.
A new exhibit argues for the timeliness of famed Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis New exhibit focuses on life and timeliness of Sinclair Lewis. April 8, 2021 10:53am Text size Copy shortlink:
Here are three things that Patrick Coleman would like people to know about writer Sinclair Lewis:
1. Contrary to popular belief, Lewis did not hate his hometown of Sauk Centre, Minn., which was the inspiration for Gopher Prairie in his novel Main Street.
2. Though written a century ago, Lewis books are enormously relevant today. He explores racism ( Kingsblood Royal ), sexism ( The Job, Main Street and Ann Vickers ), epidemics ( Arrowsmith ) and fascism ( It Can t Happen Here ).