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Paper delivery late today
Due to production issues and a press delay, delivery of The Union today was delayed. → Read More
Don Rogers: Poets return to Olympic roots
This year, we’ll have to trek to cooler climes to hear the poets.They came to Miners Foundry before the pandemic, once during a great heat spell, enthralling listeners even as we roasted and strained to hear over portable fans brought in for relief. Call it sweat equity, a sense of earning what’s now a treasured… → Read More
Don Rogers: Sun shifts to next phase
Whoosh. There went my longest employer, Swift Communications, with the new year, selling the company after 21 years with them. → Read More
Don Rogers: Last of the manly readers?
I read a lot, apparently to a disturbing degree in this age. → Read More
Don Rogers: Mine’s main ore is risk
If Rise Gold continues on its titanic quest, the county supervisors eventually will have to consider the iceberg. → Read More
Don Rogers: Atwitter over Elon Musk
Let me explain my issue with Elon Musk buying Twitter. → Read More
Don Rogers: The gritty middle way
Humans live in tension between the collective and the individual, neither ant drones nor lonely snow leopards. → Read More
Don Rogers: Poetry’s only the start
I did need some helpful guidance on the program to find the clown. Not what normally would come to mind first about the Sierra Poetry Festival on Saturday at the Miners Foundry in Nevada City. → Read More
Don Rogers: The mine’s brightest promise
A bunch of jobs created by a reopened Idaho-Maryland Mine would be a good thing all by itself. → Read More
Don Rogers: Avalanche of memories
Last Thursday, I snowboarded at Alpine Meadows, my first time there in four decades.. → Read More
Don Rogers: Truth’s as hard to mine as gold
The debate over reopening the Idaho-Maryland Mine feels a little like a liars’ club. → Read More
Don Rogers: Spring buds with a bit of dread
On Sunday, we enjoyed our porch and sunset light on the lawn and woods, marveling at the close of a perfect foothills day. → Read More
Don Rogers: Shifting with the pandemic
If we’re going to make changes, might as well do it now. → Read More
Don Rogers: Ripple effects from Ukraine
In Ukraine now, AK-47s are handed out like candy.Babushkas and kids, moms and dads, students and soldiers have taken up arms to battle overwhelming odds. Kyiv yet stands. Their leader hasn’t left.They have weathered worse than this latest invasion. Seven million Ukranians died in World War II and 4 million during Joseph Stalin’s reforms that… → Read More
Don Rogers: Reading into obsessions
I can’t say why I’m so fascinated with Pashtun culture. → Read More
Don Rogers: Sage, or another old coot?
You know, we only grow old and more conceited. Like seniors in high school, or college, the worst. But the undergrads no longer find us cool. Only the grandkids now, and only till middle school, tops.Can you see your junior colleagues’ eyes glaze as you start that next story they’ve heard before, that bit of… → Read More
Don Rogers: Rise’s messaging less than golden
Rise Gold’s PR is a disaster so far. Just sayin’.Prepaid postcards with prewritten positive responses to reopen the Idaho-Maryland Mind mailed to a few perceived friendlies? Sign here and send on to the county as if original?Maybe the Nevada County Board of Supervisors is that gullible or jaded, I dunno.Or the company is more interested… → Read More
Don Rogers: For writers, a hero’s journey
One pleasure of a writing life is reading excerpts of other writers’ manuscripts in progress and then, sometimes, paging through the same work as finished books. → Read More
Don Rogers: Great reasons to join Sierra Writers Conference
The best writing conference for the buck, our own Sierra Writers, had to retreat again this year to remote. → Read More
Don Rogers: A guide to life on fire
The end’s a good place to begin with the “The Supe’s Handbook: Leadership Lessons from America’s Hotshot Crews.”My first boss in wildfire, prone to giving pop quizzes my rookie season on an engine, gets the last word, calling this ultimate marathon of misery the best job in the world.The preface is by a supe I… → Read More