Opinion

Our View: Thank you, Rep. Barbara McLachlan

Our next representative of House District 59 will have big shoes to fill. Barbara McLachlan has served us very well for the maximum eight years – our only representative in this district to ...

Select county and Colorado election contrasts and comparisons

Montezuma County voters, with its very strong turnout of 76.5% (15,200 ballots cast of 19,936 active voters), favored the Donald Trump/JD Vance ticket with 59% of the vote, 21 greater than H...

Our view: Righting historic inequities in water

It has been a decade since Lake Nighthorse filled with about 124,000 acre feet of water, and the two tribes that collectively own almost half of it are asking when they will be able to put i...

Our view: Endorsements for General Election 2024

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for president, vice president Kamala Harris (D) has been in the second most powerful executive seat in Washington for four years, where inflation, immigration, cul...

Our view: ‘No’ to Prop 129 for the sake of our pets

The professionals who care for animals are either registered veterinary technicians, registered veterinary technical specialists or licensed veterinarians depending on educational levels and...

Our View: ‘Yes’ on 4A to fund Dolores education, slightly reduce taxes

Ballot Issue 4-A is a Mill Levy Override (MLO) advanced by the Dolores School District Board of Education to support teacher salaries, supplies and technology. This is not a new tax, rather ...

Our view: Lions, bobcats: Professionals know best

Vote ‘no’ on Proposition 127 in November

Our View: Cleave Simpson for Senate District 6

Cleave Simpson, the fourth generation San Luis Valley farmer who has represented counties from the Valley west to the Utah state line in the Colorado Senate for two years, began as an unknow...

Our View: Clark Craig for House District 59

Clark Craig has held a seat on all or almost all of the boards that shape Ignacio’s current and future activities, library, planning and town council, as well as La Plata County’s planning c...

Our View: Elect Kathleen Curry to House District 58

Kathleen Curry is looking to reenter representative government, campaigning to fill the 58th House District seat that is centered in Montrose County and extends south to include the northwes...

Our View: Vote ‘yes’ for Montezuma County sales tax

Montezuma County commissioners are championing an imaginative way to acquire a “yes” vote on the county’s first sales tax, one that will better fund law enforcement needs that are now woeful...

Our View: Vote ‘no’ on Prop. 128 increasing time served for parole eligibility

Proposition 128 is a citizens initiative that aims to reduce crime and ensure justice is served by proposing a change concerning when a person convicted of a violent crime is eligible for pa...
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