Trending:

Liddick: Civil liberties, measles and vaccinations

The brink of a measles pandemic is a useful place to consider an essential problem of our republic: the proper balance between the public interest and individual rights. This is an old question; concern about threats to our liberties was one of the c …

Mountain Wheels: All-new Hyundai Genesis takes on some tough European competition

The notion of a $70,000 Korean car might still seem a little much for American drivers. So there may be more hope for acceptance and saturation of the all-new 2015 Hyundai Genesis, the four-door premium cruiser that’s extremely luxurious, quite broad …

Durst: The return of satire

Decades after being dismissed by George S. Kaufman as a genre that “closes on Saturday night,” satire, like the measles and mumps, is making a comeback. And in many quarters, remains the most feared of the three conditions. Some experts hold to a st …

Quandary explains hut trips and who has the highest ski area in Summit

Question 1: What is a hut trip? So you fancy yourself a mountain man? Well, a trip to the Summit huts might be just the thing to test your mettle. The Summit Hut Association has four huts that are open for winter use from November through May. …

Summit Daily/Mark Fox
The highlight of Breckenridge Kingdom Days will be the 5th annual Outhouse Races on Ridge Street Sunday starting in front of Fatty's at 3 p.m.

Quandary answers why Breckenridge is “the Kingdom” and what trail markers mean

Why is Breckenridge known as “the Kingdom”? Such a simple answer: It looks down on everyone around. Kidding, of course! In fact the answer to this question is quite the opposite. You see, Breckenridge came into being as a town in 1859. Unfortunate …

The Chama Coaling Tower, foreground left, stands tall over the rail yard, with a model of the Pitkin County Courthouse off to the right. The blue house in the background is a replica of a house that stands in Fairplay. All of the structures in the train set were handmade by Tom Randolph, his wife, Sharon, and his son, Scott. The set is in need of a new home where it can be displayed for the public to enjoy.

Elich: Taking the last train home

One of my favorite musical arrangements is a song titled “Last Train Home,” by Pat Metheny. As a matter of fact, I played it as my inspiration for this article, this story, about Summit County, about Frisco, about the people who make it the wonderful …

Ask Eartha: Praise the LED, I see the light!

Dear Eartha, I’m updating the lighting in my home and am trying to decide between CFL bulbs or LEDs. I’ve heard that CFL bulbs contain harmful mercury, but they’re significantly less expensive than LEDs. Besides, will LEDs really save me that much m …

Morgan Liddick lives in Summit County. His column appears in every Tuesday in the Summit Daily News.

Liddick: The ultraliberal and a senator’s desperate campaign

Someone needs to tell Mark Udall that one is known by the company one keeps. On Sept. 6, the senator was joined for a fundraiser by Elizabeth Warren, a senator from Massachusetts and current darling of the hard-Left base of the Democrat party. Ms. …

Liddick: Central American children reignite immigration debate

The flood of Central American children currently crossing our southern border illegally has re-ignited the debate over immigration, allowing the Obama administration to use this humanitarian crisis to advance its political agenda. Specifically, the p …