Columns Archives - Ark Valley Voice

Our Voice: Facing this Eyes wide Open, Meeting Your Need to Know

by Jan Wondra | Mar 21, 2020 | Columns, Community, COVID-19, Opinion, Our Voice | 1

At the Ark Valley Voice it’s our job to look at the spreading coronavirus pandemic with eyes...

Thinking Security: Timely, Accurate Information on the Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19

by Adam Silverman | Mar 12, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Opinion, Thinking Security | 0

I want to begin with an apology. In my Thinking Security column of March 5, 2020, I recommended...

Galloping Geek: Doctor on Demand a Good Alternative to Walking into the Clinic During COVID-19 Health Emergency

by Alison Brown | Mar 11, 2020 | Chaffee County, Columns, COVID-19, Health | 0

With the scary news that COVID-19 cases have been reported in Colorado, the threat of infection...

Thinking Security: W.H.O. Fighting an Infodemic as Well as COVID-19

by Adam Silverman | Mar 5, 2020 | Columns, COVID-19, Health, Opinion, Thinking Security | 0

As the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to occupy everyone’s attention, it is important to take a...

Thinking Security: In the Land of the Blind, the One Eyed Man is King

by Adam Silverman | Feb 25, 2020 | Columns, Cybersecurity, Opinion, Thinking Security | 0

Vladimir Putin is attacking the U.S. using all elements of Russian national power (with the exception of direct military power) in an attempt to inflame existing political, social, religious, ethnic, and economic divisions among Americans, in order to weaken the U.S. and subvert the U.S.-created and backed international system that has been in place since the end of World War II.

Thinking Security: Seeing the Trees Rather Than the Forest — Characteristics of War and Warfare in the 21st Century

by Adam Silverman | Feb 17, 2020 | Columns, Cybersecurity, Government, Opinion, Thinking Security | 0

“Foreign intelligence actors—to include nation-states, organizations, and individuals—are employing innovative combinations of traditional spying, economic espionage, and supply chain and cyber operations to gain access to critical infrastructure, and steal sensitive information, research, technology, and industrial secrets. They are conducting malicious influence campaigns using cyber operations, media manipulation, covert operations and political subversion to sow divisions in our society,…”

The authors of The National Counterintelligence Strategy

What is going on with youth vaping?

by Community Contributor | Feb 10, 2020 | Business & The Economy, Chaffee County, Columns, Community, Fremont County, Guest Opinion, Health | 2

“The real problem is that nicotine is a highly addictive drug, and adolescents are physiologically more vulnerable to addiction. The earlier in childhood an individual uses nicotine-containing products, the stronger the addiction and the more difficult it is to quit.‍ Over 99 percent of commercial vaping products contain nicotine, and high school students who vape are 3.6 times more likely to be smoking cigarettes one year later.”

Edward C. (Ted) Maynard MD
Vice President of the Colorado Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics