The department lacked evidence to demonstrate it had resolved nearly three-quarters of the requests it received related to fraud holds…
REAL ESTATE: The Riley Report
Land inventory is way down as well. There are 218 vacant land properties available today. There were 432 available a year ago and 603 the year before that…
Watershed Enhancement Zoom Meeting Tonight
We encourage you to pass this information along to all your friends, colleagues, and neighbors so we can get feedback from the community and as many project ideas as possible…
Shelters for Homeless Pets — and Their Humans — Open in Grand Junction
Roice-Hurst and HomewardBound installed 10 Pallet shelters in Grand Junction where pet owners can stay inside with their pets…
ON EDGE: Colorado’s Mental Health ‘Safety Net’ Failure… Part One
“What kind of safety-net system blows off the hardest cases?” van der Laak once wrote in a note to herself….
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part Three
The original budget predicted expenditures of $7.2 million, but the Great Recession had got off to an early start in Archuleta County, and the Town ended up spending only about $5.3 million in 2007…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Pearl Harbor Day
They discussed the well-known story about the radar, and Dad got silent. One of the others said, “Larry, you’re a Pearl Harbor survivor. What do you think?”
OPINION: Wild Horses on the Virginia Range… Land of the Walking Dead?
All treated horses will soon vanish from the landscape over a 10-15-year period… slowly dying-off on the landscape beyond the public eye…
Online Food Coalition Community Conversation Event This Thursday, Dec. 9
Amanda Laban is a food systems educator, advocate and organizer. Her work has taken her from coast to coast in the US food system…
HMPRESENTLY: Adventuring Across the Rubicon
If you could get peoples’ synapses to wrap around some nifty new service, or product, or, perhaps, a company’s good deeds, that was some seriously satisfying adventuring…
OPINION: Children’s Health Defense Challenging FCC Rules on 5G Antennas, Today via YouTube
The FCC allows the installation of fixed wireless base station antennas including 5G antennas on private property (including homes) in order to provide wireless service to other properties…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part Two
How did the population growth patterns affect local government growth? Between, say, 2007 and 2020?…
PPOS School Board Approves Student-Created Dress Code
“Our founding vision was for the students to get involved in the governance and operations of the school to directly immerse them into a democratic community…”
BIG PIVOTS: Creating a Low-Carb Diet of Local and Imported Energy
Can local resources be knitted with large-scale resources from elsewhere to meet the 2030 carbon-free goals?
READY, FIRE, AIM: Lab Animals Like Me
“Everybody is trapped in a state of anxiety, but we keep picking up our phones and checking the latest fake news and misinformation…”
GOAL High School Honored as ‘Microsoft Showcase School’
Those “huge wins” included the 2019 Colorado State Championship as well as a runner-up finish in the nation…
OPINION: Colorado at the Center of Election Denialism?
With MyPillow money, activists are poised to go national with their efforts to dismantle democracy…
OPINION: EPA Helping to Kill the Cache la Poudre River
NISP is the most controversial, most environmentally damaging, and most expensive project in northern Colorado history…
EDITORIAL: Considering the Growth of Archuleta County… and Its Governments, Part One
The BOCC didn’t like my idea. They really wanted to spend $20 million, or maybe $25 million, on something totally new. A state-of-the-art “justice center”…