“This climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis. It’s not complicated. It’s the burning of oil. It’s the burning of gas…”
Category: Opinion/Letters
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part Five
Typically, government boards do not make final decisions during work sessions, but are more likely to “direct staff” to bring forward additional information at a future business meeting…
OPINION: How Billionaires Could Influence Colorado’s Governor’s Race
Will the independent and Democratic voters buck the trend of billionaires swaying elections… and elect Weiser…?
OPINION: The Freedom to Be Who We Are
“Access to gender-affirming care is associated with increased quality of life and decreased rates of self-harm, including 44% and 73% lower odds of suicidality…”
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part Four
Historically, Archuleta County voters have been adverse to higher property taxes to fund shiny new buildings…
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part Three
While researching some historical background on education trends for this article, I pulled out one of my favorite books on the subject of American public education…
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part Two
“The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing…”
EDITORIAL: The Future of Our Public Schools, Part One
Typically, projects on the BEST ‘waitlist’ have a good chance of getting funded if they reapply in future years…
OPINION: Clarifying the Climate Predictions
According to a recent report by an international panel of climate scientists, the worst-case climate scenario has been revised downward…
OPINION: History Will Not Yield to Power
At this critical juncture, the moral imperative is as compelling as the strategic one…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Four
Is that the best place to spend $750,000 taxpayer dollars? We do not currently have a well-documented plan that supports such an assumption…
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: The Body Keeps the Fallout, Part Two
Depending on exposure category and illness, qualifying individuals and some surviving family members may receive one-time compensation payments of up to $100,000…
OPINION: Post-9/11 Wars Have Cost Lives But Accomplished Nothing
“Trillions of tax dollars spent, thousands of U.S. military service members dead, and tens of thousands wounded. The toll on the rest of the world is even more staggering…”
OPINION: Candidate Scott Bottoms Challenging Colorado’s Entrenched Power Structure
A sitting lawmaker in a deep-blue state openly accusing the Supreme Court and Attorney General of self-protection and corruption…
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Three
“The Oak Fire, broadly speaking, was about $2 million in suppression. And that lasted three days. $660,000 was spent on the first Sunday afternoon…”
BORDERLANDS HEALTH: The Body Keeps the Fallout, Part One
There was a point when we almost lost my mother. Stage 4 colon cancer. Pain that kept escalating…
INTEL FROM THE IVORY TOWER: Preventing Veteran Suicides on Memorial Day
Ramchand and Montoya add that “Among veterans receiving VHA care, those who had limited economic resources consistently had elevated suicide rates…”
EDITORIAL: The Cost of Wildfire Preparations, Part Two
“Based on the highest figures we’re looking at, and that’s in cooperation with the Forest Service… it puts it at about a $750,000 project…”
OPINION: After the Servers Go Dark
Across the United States, communities are evaluating whether to host a new generation of infrastructure: hyperscale data centers…