I am writing a letter to bring some public awareness to problems in my neighborhood. Just in the last two weeks, there has been a drive-by shooting in [the] Klondyke [Apartments complex], an attempted robbery of the convenience store at knifepoint, a mugging by three men near Chestnut Street and people selling drugs behind the […]

Anyone who knows me knows how totally enamored with this town I really am. The mountains, the arts, the weirdos, the food and the beer — all these things mean I'm a happy girl. But the time has come for us to get outraged. This past Friday someone put a rock through my car window. […]

This letter is about [a job] I had one summer in a woolen mill. I’m pretty sure the job didn’t go overseas. Nobody is doing it anymore, even as cheap labor. It was low-skill work, night shift. The reason for writing about it is to make clear that the job is really, really gone, and […]