My suggestion to the commissioners is to donate two-thirds of their pay (which just increased 30 percent) to roads and bridges. They could then live on the last third like the rest of the county. The $100,000 spent on finding out if a bird sucked into a jet engine causes it to crash and $500,000 for a tent could have been used for bridges and roads. Stop donating to panhandlers, make them work for their handouts. Lock them up. Most of all, get off your butts, put down your ganja and stop chugging your Hickenlooper brew. Use your brains. You were educated on our monies to better see that less tax means better living, because you see how to use money, not dump every penny out of our pockets to hope everyone gets happy.

Durango brought the problem here. La Plata County let the city do it, hoping to glean great rewards from empty promises.

Paul McCaw

Ignacio