Column: Study Habits It’s always a good time to start a personal budget

Column: Study Habits It’s always a good time to start a personal budget

Written by Lori Robinson

Illustration by Madison Otten

If Super Bowl LIV and other wintertime festivities blew your dietary New Year’s resolutions out of the water, I’m here to help you get your house back in order. Why, you say? Because I want to get my own house in order by establishing a personal budget and could use a forum in which to compare ideas with my fellow students. What’s more I hope to show others, who may be as averse as I once was to the world of low math, that budgeting is good for us; it helps us examine what we are doing, set goals, and figure out how to get where we want to go.  Continue reading Column: Study Habits It’s always a good time to start a personal budget

Night on the Beat, Ride-a-long with WPD

Night on the Beat, Ride-a-long with WPD

Written by Lori Robinson

Photo by Lindsey Brand

Car picture courtesy of Douglas County Police Department

If your momma tells you she loves you, check it out. 

Back in 1990 when I began my journalism studies, that was the advice a mentor imparted to me. The advice holds up well, perhaps especially these days. 

I’ve had some recent conversations about the concept of news organizations as government watchdogs, during and after the week that I had completed an Oct. 14 evening shift ride-along with Patrol Officer Mark P. Smith of the Westminster Police Department.  Continue reading Night on the Beat, Ride-a-long with WPD