BEST CUP OF COFFEE: A few of us were having a debate about the best coffee in town. We love all the local places: The Coffee Trader, Looney Bean and Cimarron Coffee Roasters (sorry if I missed your favorite; there's plenty of room for debate). But that conversation got me thinking about a story we did in 2018 about a group of folks who meet in the McDonald's parking lot before it opens and wait for the Golden Arches to welcome them in. Then they go inside, drink coffee (I'm not saying Mickey D's coffee is best) and talk about life. Coincidentally, a reader called me this morning to tell me about these folks. "You should do a story." We already have, but these folks might be worth revisiting at some point.
DRIVE-THRU COVID-19 TESTING MOVES: Beginning June 29, the Montrose drive-thru testing site will move to Montrose Memorial Hospital. Testing has been happening at the Montrose County Events Center. The testing is for folks who are exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms. The county reported three more positive cases since last Thursday, bringing the total to 180, 160 of which have recovered. The county says the number of COVID-19 deaths has remained the same at 11. That's a map of the testing site above.
AS AN EDITOR, I recently found myself in a conversation with a reader about how we choose our stories. I'm preparing a column for the paper this week that will talk a little about that, among other important goings-on in our world right now. But the crux of the reader's concern was that we had covered some rallies here locally but missed a Republican rally (we had covered one the week before). What I tell folks is we can't cover it if we don't know about it. The best way, I tell people, to get something in the paper is to tell us about that something ahead of time. Feel free to send me an email anytime to let me know about your new item. If we can't cover it, we always allow news submissions. We editors do our best, but if you need a laugh, here are a few things people say about editors (I stole this from the editor at the Green Valley News in Arizona, one of our sister papers).
•Newspaper editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff. (Adlai Stevenson)
•The only people who should use the possessive "we" are kings, newspaper editors and persons with tapeworms. (Mark Twain)
•Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. (TS Eliot)
•Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung. (Josephus Daniels)
•One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception — at least some of the time — incompetent or crazy. (John Gardner)
•An editor is the uncrowned king of an educated democracy. (Finally, one we like!)
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