FINDING FRINGE | Sarah Crozier’s compassion and career are only part of her story. Her roots and her evolution are just as compelling. Dr. Sarah Crozier came to this column originally when she tended to my wife’s 18-year-old calico who was on her last leg ...
4 Nov 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | A traveler and a writer, Wallace Kaufman is a naturalist at heart I answer my call of duty — to find the most interesting and outside-the-box people for this column. I received a blind-copied email from Wallace Kaufman, announcing his lat ...
30 Sep 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
As we confront our new normal, we’re still searching for a society designed to protect people I’ve covered a few wildfire stories over the years as a newspaperman living and working in Cochise County and Tucson, Ariz.; in El Paso reporting on places like ...
11 Sep 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | A mother’s love reaches into the bowels of the Oregon penal system to keep her son afloat I catch her in the early evening. Two black bears cross the road just before turning onto her driveway. It’s light out, but I swear I saw two barn ...
26 Aug 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
An interview with Mike Hastie, a member of Veterans for Peace who federal officers assaulted with pepper spray at close range Saturday night, unprovoked Michael Hastie was a Vietnam War medic with the U.S. Army in the early 1970s. Now, at 75, he's on ...
27 Jul 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | Helping the disenfranchised through a housing crisis, Kamikawa brings authenticity to small town politics One caveat for this piece: I have been a substitute teacher in Lincoln County going on a year, spending many days teaching all manne ...
17 Jul 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | One person’s refugee status is another’s loyalty to employers, state and country “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-to ...
27 Jun 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | Living modestly in the forestland of Lincoln County, David Peltier believes in breaking the cycle of poverty and ending isolation “A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.” — Vinoba Bhave Out of the blue, an em ...
19 May 2020 - Paul K. Haeder
FINDING FRINGE | My conversations with librarians have been the bright line in a ‘world of words’ “Look, we have been on the front lines of all sorts of diseases. New strains of TB. Hep C. Even bedbugs are blamed on us. This virus doesn’t scare me. The pe ...
31 Mar 2020 - Paul K. Haeder