Opinion

Our view: Thanks to donors, foundation, SWCO Gives Day a hit

The Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado is turning 25 in 2025 and it has a lot to celebrate. If the 2024 Colorado Gives Day was any indication, as it approaches its Silver Jubile...

Our view: A season for mercy

In a fun twist on the White House tradition of sparing the life of at least one turkey around Thanksgiving, the mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County has for the seventh year running issued a...

Our view: ‘AI analyzes and predicts, but humans are still at the helm’

ChatGPT (the workhorse), Claude (the writer, developer and analyst), Perplexity (the researcher), MidJourney (the designer). Sound like characters from the 1949 board game, Clue? Hopefully, ...

Our view: A pardon, and prison

Joe Biden is being faulted for pardoning his son, 54-year-old Hunter, after having repeatedly saying that he wouldn’t, that he would let the judicial system run its course, uninvolved. Hunte...

Our view: Even presidents should not be above the law

That the federal criminal charges against Donald Trump – who is soon to be president, again – have been dismissed because of a Justice Department policy that prevents a president from being ...

Our view: Locate agencies for effectiveness, not politics

It is common for candidates-elect to flex their muscles, and their mouths, as they prepare for office, test their policy proposals and remind voters who and what they voted for. In a bit of ...

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
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