Opinion

With the midterm elections just around the corner, and while voting is both outstanding and the foundation of our freedoms, I would like to propose how everyone can vote on a daily basis — with your wallet! You have a much stronger and lasting effect on your lives simply by spending your money with those […]

I’m a self-proclaimed chicken rancher—a lover of chickens, a fan of all things fowl. My little flock of 16 chickens gives me lots of joy and, of course, a few eggs. As with my dogs, my chickens enjoy a charmed life: free run of the yard, fresh greens, and heat lamps in the winter. Since […]

I recently returned from a trip to Michigan, where I was born and raised. It was a rough ride coming back to Patagonia. In Nebraska, I-80 had lots of road seams to loosen nuts and bolts. My route branched off to Colorado, and then there was Denver. I decided I was not going to try […]

Don’t look now, Toto. We’re rotting. Does it bother anyone else out there that almost all of this season’s campaign ads, even those supporting relatively decent candidates, are petty and misleading? “Well, if you’re gonna call me a bad name, I’m gonna call you a bad name. Nyaa Nyaa Nyaa.” How undignified. What does it […]

My brain was shaped during the 1950s and ‘60s. That perspective and those attitudes and ideas have defined my sphere of technologic skills and my outlook on life, although since then I have expanded a bit. I’ve learned to use a computer and a digital camera. I even have an iPhone, although I rarely carry […]

We didn’t really have any plans for Halloween last year. I guess you could blame it on a lack of enthusiasm. However, I did have that need for candy. For some reason, Zach is always a willing participant in my shenanigans, so when I suggested we go trick or treating disguised as children, he did […]

The U.S. Open is over — that’s the tennis one, just so you know, this is not about golf. I am a tennis player and thus I am a fan of the sport which, in my lifetime, has gone from sedate to manic. The court’s the same size, the way you make points and keep […]

Readers Take Issue With Sonoita Landfill’s Glass Recycling The PRT received two reader responses to last month’s front page article on the Sonoita landfill. Both were concerned with the landfill’s current recycling of glass. In the article, county landfill manager Karl Moyers stated that recycling glass costs the county money, because by the time a […]