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There is something unfortunate in the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) picking Yavapai County as ground zero for a new, comprehensive law enforcement and prevention initiative aimed at reducing drug use, abuse, and overdose deaths throughout Arizona involving opioids, especially fentanyl.

One year ago we wrote in this space the Prescott Regional Airport expansion is “good for Prescott and the Quad Cities.”

Many of our local businesses have felt the economic impacts of the pandemic.

This is an editorial of mixed messages coming from the state, surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was called “Snowmageddon 2,” rivaling a 2019 storm’s results.

Earlier this month The Daily Courier Editorial Board announced that the newspaper would work harder in 2021 to increase community emphasis by asking our local columnists to write about local topics ...

The Prescott area is not, nor should it be, about division or derision. When the chips have been down in the past, we have come together as a community.

As part of the agenda for the Tuesday, Jan. 12, Prescott City Council meeting is a schedule laying out the process of how councilors will fill Billie Orr’s seat.

Resolutions. What a hot topic every year as people vow, with the best of intentions, that they will improve their lives in the new year that awaits them.

This editorial was written by Francis P. Church and first published in The New York Sun in 1897. It has become a holiday tradition.

“Law enforcement is here to protect our communities and we support our law enforcement officers throughout Yavapai County. They provide the thin blue line between us and chaos.”

On Wednesday, Dec. 2, the Yavapai County Board of Supervisors reversed course on the Verde Connect project. It is a $50-something million project to join Beaverhead Flat Road with Highway 260 and would include a new Verde River bridge.

We recently received a letter from a woman named Arlene and her husband who visited Prescott for the first time last month.

On this Thanksgiving Day the Courier editorial board looked back 101 years for perspective. The United States was still healing from a terrible world war.

In reviewing articles in The Daily Courier over the past week, one that stands out for us was about the School Safety Task Force findings — stating that schools need to provide more counselors, social workers, fund after-school programs and establish programs to deal with bullying, and more.

Since the late 1800s, the Courier has reported numerous acts of heroic togetherness when someone's life was in danger.

Governing boards for the Prescott Unified and Humboldt Unified school districts missed the vote this past week. Rather, they missed the signs.

The Prescott area that most of us fell in love with has a community feel, not one of division or derision.

The case for fully reopening the state of Arizona and its 15 counties from COVID-19 restrictions is at a standstill, yet got a shot in the arm from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Oct. 9.

It is a silent affliction. It even comes with a stigma — people being afraid or reluctant to admit it is or has been a problem for them or someone they know.

It seems that we living in the Greater Prescott area have a scourge or two to be concerned about.

This editorial is a shout out to Kind Defined, a local nonprofit community organization quietly striving to make a difference that’s perhaps needed now more than ever in many of our lives, especially for our children.

Extraordinary times demand extraordinary measures. That appears to be the mantra for the City of Prescott during the coronavirus pandemic, which is not over yet.

The residents of Prescott and Quad Cities have dodged a few bullets recently, in regard to dry conditions and wildland fires.