The increase would benefit the eleven public schools in School District 9-R and would also benefit the two charter schools. The Durango schools have suffered significant losses in funding since…
The hyperventilating has to stop. Commissioners Gwen Lachelt and Julie Westendorff do receive some money – in $50 to $200 increments – from attorneys, it’s true. They also receive money…
Please make sure you fill out your ballot and mail it in, or drop it off at one of the four county drop-off locations, as soon as you receive it.…
A functional airport is an essential tool in keeping my business, its 1,200 employees and clients from points across the United States working and engaged. I know of other local…
“No Limit Taxes Hold’em” points out the $25 billion ColoradoCare will raise, but omits the fact that $25 billion replaces the $30 billion we currently pay in premiums, deductibles, etc.,…
President Jimmy Carter deregulated the railroads, airlines and telephones. What happened? Innovation accelerated, prices dropped and new companies emerged. Apple, Microsoft, Intel and other new startups brought us personal computers,…
The university maintains four campuses, including the Anschutz Medical Campus, and serves 65,000 students per year. With 30,000 staff, CU is Colorado’s third largest employer and is a leader in…
Or do you follow the Cliven Bundy approach to public land management, where land should be managed “locally,” preferably on behalf of the few, preferably for a profit. Lyle McKnight…
That Roberts would want to leave the Senate is understandable. Serving in the General Assembly is hard work – and for little pay. It involves extensive time away from home,…
Maybe our legislators are smarter than we’d like to give them credit for. How have similar ideas worked in other states? Here’s a quote from Wikipedia: “Several single-payer state referendums…
The party recommends a “Yes” vote on: Amendment 69 – statewide health care system (ColoradoCare) to establish a universal health care system for all Colorado citizens including no premiums, no…
The designation of the Hermosa Creek Special Management area came to the huge delight of anglers across Colorado and the rest of the country. His work on the Sage Grouse…
Lachelt has worked for the public interest in such areas as public health, protection of wildlife, agriculture, county governance and surface owner rights for more than three decades. During her…
For instance, in my area, we needed County Road 210 around Lake Nighthorse, but we did not need an overbuilt superhighway that connects to a corkscrew road and manages to…
I would like to take this opportunity to inform readers about one of the candidates that I have known since she was born. Kayla (Story) Patterson was brought up out…
In the 2000 election, a mere 536 votes for the third-party candidate Ralph Nader in Florida gave George W. Bush the presidency, who gave our country the trumped-up costly war…
NARAL and Planned Parenthood, I believe, need to consider becoming an enhancement to ColoradoCare for women’s health concerns beyond reproductive care. ColoradoCare, I feel, is a crucial step to having…
Section 9(d) illustrates these problems. Under this clause, the entire Colorado taxable income of a retiree would be subjected to a 50 percent tax “from July 1 until December 31”…
In what universe is $60 million a small loan? Even dyed-in-the-wool Republicans have to admit that someone who inherently sees funding like this to be “small” is out of touch…
Of course the city councilors support the airport tax. Will they directly profit because of it? Who got rich the last time the airport just had to be enlarged and…
Hillary will come to the job prepared. (We feel comfortable using her first name both because her campaign does and to avoid confusion with Bill.) She has been active in…
We also know Donald has been involved in thousands of lawsuits. Students are suing Trump University claiming they were swindled out of thousands of dollars. The Trump Foundation, a professed…
Even if the projections are true, do we really want more and more visitors (a certain percentage of which will become permanent residents), traffic, air pollution, higher crime and a…
Obviously, there will be no federal investigation. Interestingly enough, the question on the network morning shows was whether Trump would sue the Times. A number of legal experts on both…
Can voters believe that Barbara McLachlan would not promote and support legislation to enrich her husband and other lawsuit attorneys at the expense of the public? Remember that lawsuit abuse…
The runway is long enough to land a 787 transcontinental jumbo jet, not that anyone ever would want to. Why is that? Because Durango isn’t big enough to need it.…
Gwen Lachelt is the better qualified candidate for District 2 county commissioner. Not only is she the incumbent and therefore already thoroughly educated on the current issues, but she clearly…
Proposition 106 is known as “medical aid-in-dying,” and will make it possible for mentally capable individuals who have less than six months to live to self-administer a life-ending drug. Two…
It is not usually politicians I notice as being models for life balance. However, Gwen Lachelt is a person I have known and admired for many years for her ability…
Our current board of county commissioners works well together, has a range of knowledge and balance, and has the ability to push and challenge one another in a healthy and…
