While I thank Brie for her service, I was not impressed with her knowledge and experience considering that she has been on the board for almost two years. She excused…
In 2012, I started my studies at Fort Lewis College and met Matt while working during the elections that year. As a campaign manager, Matt was passionate about his candidate…
All the excess funds raised should go to taxpayers or homeowners. It seems like the state legislators want to end TABOR for good. If the state can’t write in the…
If this question fails, it will only cost us more money in the long run. It is likely that interest rates down the road will be higher than those currently…
Brie is best qualified, given her background in business, community organizations and as a board of education member with an critical perspective. Given the reduction in number of board members…
Does it make any sense to sell marijuana to enable drug abuse, tax the sale, and then use the money for marijuana drug abuse? Of course not! I want my…
I have tremendous respect for Brie as an engineer, mother and member of our community. She is the person I want helping to shape the future of the 9-R school…
I met Matt on the Colorado College cross country team, where he was a captain his junior and senior years. He set an example for our team by working incredibly…
Over the next few years, Matt worked on several campaigns and I committed to helping him when I could. He was an inspiring leader, so full of passion for the…
Back in the mid-1980s, Bayfield’s streets were gravel. That is when the people of Bayfield voted to pave those streets, making the decision that paved streets would be a better…
Did the Herald not like what the folks of La Plata County actually had to say? I thought it was maybe my iPad, so I tried my other computer and…
Matt brings an economics background – his area of study in college. After graduating, his work with young to college-age students, and being an intermediary with parents added to his…
The commission states that $5 million per year is needed for 10 years to supplement road and bridge maintenance. This suggests that a plan has been developed, with public input,…
The world is naturally on edge over the Sunni vs. Shiite conflict. The two Muslim groups read scriptures from the same book, the Koran, yet have fought each other with…
The only difference in our country is that we all have the constitutional right to acquire and possess as many weapons as we want. Sadly, this has surpassed the right…
It truly is in very bad taste. Jackie Caudill Durango
On the ballot this election is Town of Bayfield Question 2D, which asks Bayfield voters to approve a 1-cent sales tax for roads and stormwater drainage systems. The town is…
Octane is an issue that was not mentioned and likely could not be considered a scam, but is very frustrating for individuals driving vehicles with large fuel tanks that call…
Israel is in support of ISIL with the objective of ousting Syria’s Assad regime, which helps to resource Hezbollah, a Shiite militia that is mainly active in southern Lebanon, resisting…
Their doctors murder and mutilate, yearly, over 500,000 women who are living and growing in the womb. These facilities are not women’s centers, they are death factories whose main purpose…
Matt has demonstrated his skill in working productively with diverse stakeholders. He knows how to bring people together, solve tough issues and get everyone in a room motivated toward a…
When my husband and I moved to Mill Street in 1979, our street was a mixture of pavement and gravel and there were no sidewalks on one side of the…
Fourteen of the last 15 years have been the hottest on record and during that time, we’ve experienced more intense droughts, wildfires and extreme weather events. Despite these obvious problems,…
The tax base for real estate was affected by moving from the 2012 level of value to the 2014 level of value. County-wide, most classes of property saw increases as…
The main reasoning behind these restrictions is that if a woman shows too much of her body, she becomes less than a student, or a person, but a distraction. The…
We’ve known since the legislation was passed in 1968 that there would be a lake, but weren’t able to figure out how to empty the trash cans or police the…
The list actually goes on, but you get the idea. When La Plata County reversed its position and decided a Special Land Use Permit was required, GCC Energy immediately began…
I cannot understand that this option is not on the table or in the realm of consideration, it is close to the present location and yet isolated by natural boundaries.…
The group came from all sections of our county and comprised men and women from several business sectors, nonprofits and agriculture. There were some who have lived here their entire…
For 2016, they want me to bet $8,600 that I will get cancer or run over by a bus in the next 12 months. If I blew that kind of…
