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Compton offers vision, passion to LPEA board

I am supporting Ted Compton because he is a visionary and a coalition-builder. When my late husband Ed first had the vision that Durango could be a mountain bike mecca, people thought he wa...

Thanks to LPEA board and staff for bill credit

I just read that La Plata Electric Association was a leader in obtaining a settlement with its power supplier Tri-State Generation & Transmission for a rate reduction of 4% over the next two...

Tribute to a drill sergeant

Sgt. First Class James Connell Jr. trained me as a new Basic Training Recruit at Fort Benning, Georgia. I endured everything he and that hot, humid environment could throw at me for 3½ mon...

Use money to place weather radar system

My first thought upon reading the article “$15.8M in federal relief to land in La Plata County” (May 20) was to hope that local governments will seriously consider using some of that money ...

Use your turn signal at roundabouts

Apparently with the advent of full electronics guiding one’s every movement, breath and heartbeat, the average driver has either become numb to basic courtesy, rude or just plain out of body...

U.S. Senate is a herd of sheep

Russian President Vladimir Putin has found himself a herd of sheep to distribute his poison. Sadly, it is some of our very own U.S. senators and the president. José B. Quintana ...

Join the fight to end Alzheimer's

I just attended the 2021 Alzheimer’s Impact Movement Advocacy Forum. Held virtually this year, over 1,200 Alzheimer’s advocates from across the nation met with members of Congress to discuss...

Why the disparity among local cemeteries?

I am 100% fed up. For nearly 40 years now, we have been tending family graves at Red Mesa Cemetery. Even at a young age, I knew those who take care of these gravesites on Memorial Day in thi...

‘Sustainable tourism’ not actually sustainable

Thank you, Jim McMahon, for a succinct, thoughtful, and to my mind “right on” letter regarding “sustainable tourism” (May 26, “Durango’s lodgers tax isn’t funding sustainability”). Your comm...

Wheeler effective in first term at LPEA

This is a critical year to be a voter in the upcoming La Plata Electric Association election, as we have the opportunity to re-elect our experienced and knowledgeable board member Tim Wheele...

Vote like your grandchildren's lungs depend on it

We have come so far. Just a few years ago, members of the La Plata Electric Board of Directors were openly pro-fossil fuels. Today, even the most conservative candidates acknowledge the neg...

Potential LPEA contender endorses Compton instead

This year I will be supporting Ted Compton for the District 3 open seat on the La Plata Electric Association Board. Like every year, there is one open seat in each of the four voting distric...
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