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State grant funds plan for Ewing Mesa event center

One of the things that we get kind of excited about at La Plata County is leveraging partnerships to benefit our community. We do this all the time: Energy impact grants from the ...

DATE: Apr 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Charles Krauthammer: The road to single-payer health care has been paved

WASHINGTON – Repeal-and-replace (for Obamacare) is not quite dead. It has been declared so, but what that means is that, for now, the president has (apparently) washed his hands of it and th...

DATE: Mar 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Frank Bruni: Devin Nunes is dangerous

Rep. Devin Nunes obviously fancies himself Jason Bourne. To sneak onto the White House grounds for that rendezvous with an unnamed source last week, he switched cars and ditched aides, vanis...

DATE: Mar 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

David Brooks: Can elephants learn from failure?

The Republican health care bill failed because it was a bad bill that had almost no authentic public support. It took benefits away from tens of millions of vulnerable people to give tax bre...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Donald, this I will tell you

We’ve known each other a long time, so I think I can be blunt. You know how you said at campaign rallies that you did not like being identified as a politician? Don’t w...

DATE: Mar 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Our poop-prone PUPS AND US

When I’m 90, I’ll probably still be haunted by memories of bins overflowing with the remnants of hiking snacks and thinly wrapped dog turds, left to bake for a week in small plastic bags. ...

DATE: Mar 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Schools, horses, camels and coal

The first day of spring has arrived and the legislative session is more than halfway over. This week, we had our first late night of debate on the Senate floor. We have already had some late...

DATE: Mar 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keep Lake Nighthorse quiet

In case anyone is wondering, it is highly unlikely that Lake Nighthorse will be open for recreation in 2017. Last spring, I wrote an opinion piece about the lake because I felt th...

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

U.S. House lacks common sense and compassion

WASHINGTON – In its zeal to repeal, the U.S. House of Representatives recently voted to overturn a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule forbidding the baiting, trapping and “denning” of bears...

DATE: Mar 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Protecting America’s public lands

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt came to Colorado for a three-week bear hunting trip. Perhaps inspired by Colorado’s beauty, that same year, he created the U.S. Forest Service to manage...

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

GOP health care plan leads to the end of an era

The Republican health care bill could represent the moment when the old order of American politics completely cracks up, the end of a certain era in American politics. That era be...

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

Vote “for” 1A: Remove fluoride from city water

The special City Council meeting to discuss fluoridation was filled to the brim, with 40 to 50 people standing out in the lobby. Even though council claimed to hear nothing new from those ag...

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