Frieda Wallison

I can’t remember a time when the terms “racist” or “racism” were used with the abandon that now infects our political discourse. These are hateful words -…

As an alumna of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, one of the last all-women institutions of higher education, I decided to put aside the other…

The April 2 five-four decision of the United States Supreme Court on campaign finance in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission has elicited the…

My husband and I recently returned from a fascinating trip to Peru, where we floated down the Amazon (the headwaters are in the Peruvian Andes) and hiked…

I was listening the other day to the Diane Rehm Show on Aspen Public Radio. It was the Friday news round-up and the conversation included, as it often has…

About three years ago, a relative of mine went to the emergency room at Aspen Valley Hospital with stroke-like symptoms. He did not have health insurance…

Traveling throughout the Roaring Fork Valley in the days leading up to the November 5 election, I was impressed by the slick signs trumpeting two of this…