by Pat Stuart | Feb 3, 2020 | Social Capital
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns MUSEUMS, HISTORY, and Doom Powell Tribune, 16 January 2020 “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” It’s a great phrase and came to mind because I’ve talked to too many people who’ve never been inside our local historical...
by Pat Stuart | Dec 14, 2019 | Economic Realities, education, Library, Social Capital
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns RETOOLING for Our New World Powell Tribune, 14 December 2019 Grim news from the local employment front … The closing of Shopko and Cody Labs, not to mention the layoffs and position reductions at Northwest College, focuses my...
by Pat Stuart | Dec 12, 2019 | Library, Social Capital
Pat Stuart Newspaper Columns WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE – Libraries and Social Capital Powell Tribune, 5 December 2019 I’ve been wandering in memory land, recalling communities where I’ve lived in various countries and what made them particularly livable, trying to...
by Pat Stuart | Oct 31, 2019 | Social Capital
Pat Stuart Books and Columns What Really Makes Us Great by Pat Stuart Powell Tribune, 31 October 2019 Ask a foreign student from central Asia what impression he has of our community, as one of my friends did recently, and the response was both insightful and...
by Pat Stuart | Jun 27, 2019 | Justice, Social Capital, Wyoming
Pat Stuart Books and Columns Mind Bugs in the Equality State Powell Tribune, 29 June 2019 We’re the “Equality State,” a name evoked often this year as we look back on 150 years of women having the vote. Me, I love the name, the concept of equality and the challenges...
by Pat Stuart | Apr 5, 2019 | Social Capital
Pat Stuart Books and Columns Travel: That New Normal by Pat Stuart Living in Park County once meant … well, living in Park County. We had our homes here, our employment here, our schools, recreation, and vacations here. If we left at all, it was to visit...