While it is commendable that they support our marijuana industry to the great extent they obviously do, it might be better if they limited that habit somewhat. When did multi-module…
There have been times when an official has been elected who is not someone for whom I voted, or someone with whom I agree. However, this is the United States…
Getting the city to reduce county-served residents’ multiplier from 2.0 to something more equitable, say 1.5, has fallen on deaf ears. But that’s another story. Our latest sewer bill contains…
The goal of this single-payer system is to expand access to health care for all U.S. citizens regardless of employment, income or health status. The program would be funded through…
One theme was obvious – that multiple use is okay. As far as safety and access was concerned, some good ideas included; The no-wake zone in the northeast area of…
Sunshine Week, March 11-17 this year, focuses attention on the open-meetings and open-records laws that give ordinary people the right to observe the workings of government. Such laws are foundational…
Might the festival board and planners have the fortitude to ban films with gun violence in the future? Unlikely. How many Americans leap from their theater seats and sofas, having…
At a reading that year, the poet James Wright recalled the unsettled history of our own civil war and his origins along the Ohio River where the North and South…
For the past several years, the following partner organizations have conducted health coverage outreach and enrollment projects that have provided application assistance and health literacy education to thousands of individuals…
I know many of your constituents who would like to hear from you on how Congress is planning to stop the slaughter of our children and grandchildren. I’m sure you’ll…
Removing this publicly-supported 2016 legislation not only results in degrading one of Colorado’s most economically valuable resources – it’s clean air and blue skies – but it carelessly wastes energy…
Now is the time for us to let go of our current exorbitantly expensive and grossly inefficient health care system and try a new approach. Under a single-payer system, you…
Look at this as helping the American stock market, and the 50 percent of you that have stock. Trust me. I have stock all over the world. You will be…
Like many other La Plata County residents, I feel that we are being denied access to important information that can be viewed on television news broadcasts from Denver television stations.…
Last week at Federalist.com, John Davidson provided the real reason for all gun-control opposition. He says the Second Amendment is not about hunting or self-defense: “The right to bear arms…
Mariah Lee Bradshaw posed at the Double Tree Inn in Durango after being recognized in May 2015 by the Pueblo Community College President Patty Erjavec for earning an Associate of…
Zinke told the Albuquerque Journal that he had heard from tribal officials and New Mexico’s senators, and “there have been some questions raised” about the impact of energy development on…
I am a person with physical disabilities, born with cerebral palsy. It is my hope that lawmakers, the media, etc. not automatically confuse those with physical disabilities as people with…
Here’s the real solution to the Democrat, progressive-caused tragedies. Take the rights away from criminals and act on known data on the perpetrators to be. Enough was already known beforehand…
Electing Diane Mitsch Bush for the 3rd Congressional District is the change I want to see in 2018. Diane, whose voting record speaks volumes about her priorities, has been a…
A shooter in Parkland hit 30 students in six minutes. Every 10 seconds another Parkland student was shot, every 20 seconds one died. These two bad guys used assault rifles…
I encourage the students to exercise their right to peaceful protest and to get their message out that something has got to be done to end school shootings. Somewhere I…
Metal Detectors;Closed campus to facilitate the processing at metal detectors;Enhanced security, such as increased video and ID entry systems; andA School Resource Officer at each school, which would be a…
Dan Snowberger, superintendent of Durango School District 9-R, worries that a national movement for students to walk out of classrooms on March 14, to show support for measures to end…
The solution should be simple. Pass the laws outlawing automatic and semi-automatic weapons. Give the people who own one now 30 days to turn them in and be paid by…
The fact that it’s over a state’s right to decide on an issue like marijuana makes it all the richer. But that’s what Republicans think and do; as long as…
It will be interesting to see if he votes for stricter gun-control measures (universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons, an updated computer system that will alert officials to…
Currently, Teddy’s advice has been forgotten and, from the Beltway to Denver, the loonies are at least temporarily in charge. Emboldened by this Trumpian atmosphere, our local loonies are doing…
