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Voting the first step on new path for LPEA

Ballots for the election of directors to the board of La Plata Electric Association are in this week’s mail. If you have an electric meter, you are an LPEA member/owner of our electric utili...

DATE: Apr 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

N.Y. college plan tries, fails to do good with government

Donald Trump sets the bar very high, but the award for the worst public policy idea of the year goes to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo presides over a state with a rich diversi...

DATE: Apr 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Why don’t all jobs matter?

President Donald Trump is still promising to bring back coal jobs. But the underlying reasons for coal employment’s decline – automation, falling electricity demand, cheap natural gas, techn...

DATE: Apr 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Trump’s stunning foreign policy reversal is an overdue wake up call

WASHINGTON – The world is agog at Donald Trump’s head-snapping foreign policy reversal. He runs on a platform of America First. He renounces the role of world policeman. He excoriates parasi...

DATE: Apr 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Publicity stunts do not add up to sound policy

Does anyone still remember the Carrier deal? Back in December, President-elect Donald Trump announced, triumphantly, that he had reached a deal with the air-conditioner manufactu...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Why the natural gas industry opposes the BLM’s new “methane rule.”

At the end of 2016, the Bureau of Land Management adopted a controversial new rule, “Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation,” also known as the “methane...

DATE: Apr 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

The coming incompetence crisis in Washington

I just read that the Trump administration has filled only 22 of the 553 key positions that require Senate confirmation. This makes me worry that the administration will not have enough manpo...

DATE: Apr 12, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Karma, precedent and now we have the nuclear option

WASHINGTON – For euphemism, dissimulation and outright hypocrisy, there is nothing quite as entertaining as the periodic Senate dust-ups over Supreme Court appointments and the filibuster. T...

DATE: Apr 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Walkers using the Animas River Trail should be wary of proposed e-bike plan

The Animas River Trail is a prime recreational venue. People use it to walk, cycle, exercise their dogs, spend time with friends and family, skateboard and stroll with children in buggies an...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Monument status may damage Bears Ears

I’m not a native-born Utahn, but I came here 40 years ago and made it my home. One of my first views of this remarkable land was of the Bears Ears area of southern Utah. It is sacred territo...

DATE: Apr 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Administration should face opium addiction despair

The health care bill failed. The odds of successful tax reform are remote, and in any case an actual proposal is months away. If we lived in a normal country our president would use the curr...

DATE: Apr 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

200 years of public health has doubled our life expectancy

With National Public Health Week taking place April 3-9, I ask you to take a trip back in time and imagine yourself living 200 years ago in 1817. Living conditions then were vastly different...

DATE: Apr 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman