Healthy eating: A healthy diet reduces your risk for many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Aim for at least two and a half cups of fruits and vegetables…
I would like to bring up something important. My pet is a fish, and he lives in an aquarium in my home. His name is Mr. Bubbles. Now, my fish…
When will we escape the religious oppression of the religious right and the failure to separate church from state? Bob Kuhnert Durango
Many people claim to serve God. This God created everything, including women – hardwired, like most females of species, to bring successful, healthy progeny into the world. Why do Republicans…
Why else would he suggest that board members need to sign a piece of paper saying they will follow the rules, unless he doesn’t think that the regulations and staff…
Heather Erb and Gregg Dubit are excellent choices for the LPEA board. Dubit is the candidate for District 2. He organized Solar La Plata, which helped more than 100 property…
That being said, I never have seen any of these panhandlers force a person to give them money or things. I’ve not once seen anyone held at gunpoint in Durango…
For example, the biomass plant should be up and running, but Formwalt and LPEA board members are letting Tri-State dictate how much electricity they can garner from green energy! The…
However, that has changed. Rates are going up, and fiscal management is more important than ever. I never have heard so many negative sentiments expressed about our LPEA board membership…
Now that’s the height of hypocrisy. Maybe Olson would like to explain the expenses “his” directors have charged the members of LPEA over the last couple of years? The opinions…
Gregg understands the imperative of sound financial oversight, managing costs, capitalizing on opportunities and increasing services. He understands that this all can be done in a clean-energy context: Working to…
However, too often, there are candidates with personal agendas, and the noise surrounding these agendas does not represent the whole, and by default it divides communities. I don’t bleed green…
If the Herald and its reporters were interested in providing its readers in Archuleta County with actual information about these candidates, you would have contacted Nicholas Kazarinoff and Formwalt, then…
For decades, these two people repeatedly have demonstrated compassion, vision and leadership in our community. Their experience of successful business management is exactly the kind of skill good board members…
At the last LPEA board meeting, four of the current directors present felt candidates for the board should sign an affidavit that simply affirmed they were qualified to run for…
As the former weatherization program manager, then executive director of 4CORE, I have had the privilege of working with the Colorado Energy Office, the U.S. Department of Energy, the EPA,…
The April 24 political cartoon depicting impoverished Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign coffers is quite funny in view of the continuing Clinton scandals the Herald refuses to print. How many normal…
I tried the Durango Herald’s Action Line column to no avail. Perhaps someone at the FLC cycling team or the Durango Wheel Club can point me in the right direction,…
It took an embarrassingly large number of people to put their lives on hold and help me. They gave up their warm clothes to cover me and shivered, raced down…
SASCO is pleased to support Britt Bassett for re-election in District 3 and Heather Erb for re-election in District 4. Britt Bassett is a dedicated, knowledgeable and passionate representative for…
I know we are going to miss someone, and if we do, we apologize. We recently had a fire in our house on Forest Avenue. First, we want and need…
Heather is a businesswoman, mother, sitting LPEA board member and strong community leader. More than anything, she is a consensus-builder who works hard to make sure that LPEA moves effectively…
Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Scotland and Ireland all have set records for renewable-energy production in 2014, relying mostly on wind and some solar. The United States also has been increasing…
Our FLC mission statement and strategic plan codify our sacred trust to provide a free education to any federally enrolled tribal member, including Native Alaskan students. This is why history…
I worked in Kathmandu many years ago, volunteering with an organization that has been there for more than 50 years. The Dooley/Intermed Foundation has been doing work there for so…
I came home today to see an “AMI” meter installed after I told LPEA that I do not want one. I asked someone there why LPEA cares about enforcing smart…
I learned the following from LPEA minutes, financials and attending board meetings: The “green” members of the board (the board majority) defeated a motion to require LPEA board candidates to…
We fully agree that panhandlers are fellow Americans with the same rights as the rest of us, including free speech, even if they are unkempt and their speech is a…
On the other side, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., is recommending the idea that Social Security payments should be increased by raising the income tax from the current cap of $118,000…
At the end of our discussion, one of the book-club members suggested this book should be the community read for Durango. Another member of the book club suggested that people…
