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Federal spending is not the problem

The Trump administration has stated that the government is spending too much. This is false! The real problem is the IRS has been severely defunded and short staffed. According to the nonpa...

Readers write poetry

Would that I could as I know I should But such is the quandary of life in the laundry or life as a resident or even the president Leslie Ray Wallace Bayfield ...

Tyranny is the opposite of God’s kingdom of love

I’ve recently been rereading “Caesar and Christ,” historian Will Durant’s 1944 classic which traces the history of Rome and Christianity from their beginnings into the 4th century. The simil...

Unstoppable, united, indivisible we stand

Corporations operate for one purpose only – profit for investors. Any CEO daring to risk profit to protect a mere river, or employees, would be immediately fired. We see the negative social...

Readers write poetry:

Pagoda is the end of the road. A state sign gives the warning in blue and yellow: Road Ends. We are on our own in Pagoda, no place at all. Energetic flies greet us. Out of the corner of my e...

Tri-State debt will sink us

La Plata Electric Association is undergoing a transition that voters from both political parties can appreciate. Freeing themselves from a bureaucratic indebted partner and moving to a model...

Bravo, La Plata County Board of Commissioners

Last week, La Plata County became the first county in the country to pass a resolution supporting national public lands and opposing the Trump administration’s push to sell them off (Herald,...

Our constitutional rights are being violated

With all of the horrible things the current administration has done in less than three months, our outrage is diluted: imposing tariffs that tank the economy and financial markets; decimatin...

A veteran’s view on the state of our country

I know that I'm not the only one who feels that Donald Trump has put our country on a path of destruction, but sometimes too many of us just ‘grin and bear it.’ Well, maybe more of us need t...

Readers write poetry:

I stopped awhile to breathe among the sway Of autumn’s rhythmic magic aspen dance And lingered on to meet the fawn-like play Of amber leaves that trend across the stance. But morning whispe...

Support existing LPEA board members

If you want to see what responsible, forward-thinking leadership really looks like, just look at what’s already been accomplished under the current LPEA board. While federal fire mitigation ...

Three branches established to prevent a dictatorship

Our Declaration of Independence was written in response to the many impositions of an abusive English king. The resistance did not originate at that time but began 560 years before. The Magn...