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Benjamin Franklin once wrote that "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." Well, I am outraged and I hope that you are as well. The Dolores High...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Do people choose to become homeless? Seeing homelessness firsthand makes me believe that people don't always choose to be homeless. Sometimes life changes for the worse. People end up in bad...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The people of the 3rd District want Congress to pass a responsible budget that cuts spending, protects and strengthens programs like Medicare and Social Security, and ensures that our troops have...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As we begin the 113th Congress, I'm incredibly honored to have earned the trust of the people of the 3rd Congressional District and to serve as their representative for a second term. During my...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
We live in a magical place in a not-so-magical time. Those who are born and live their lives under western skies accept the wide open expanses of land as the norm. Those who travel here from...
DATE: Dec. 26, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I am writing in response to David Allen and Willson Bloch, who have advocated that we write some letters with positive messages. I have lived on my three acres of land down McElmo Canyon for 20...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
One of the topics much discussed in the media and among friends is mental health of the offender. So here we go again. The subject has been raised in each of the incidents since the University of...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Since 1981, December has been recognized as National Impaired Driving Prevention Month. This presidential proclamation raises awareness of, and seeks to prevent, the acts of drunk driving, drugged...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
We've all become cliff dwellers, clinging to the rocky face while, above us, President Obama and Congressional Republicans are locked in an embrace heading toward the precipice which will plunge...
DATE: Dec. 7, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Abuse, neglect, and exploitation involving at-risk adults is a growing problem in the United States, and Colorado is no exception. To help deal with this problem, each county department of human...
DATE: Nov. 30, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
There is little time left before the nation hits the so-called fiscal cliff. President Obama and the lame duck Congress have an unprecedented number of issues to addressincluding some which...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The so-called fiscal cliff is the confluence of three separate legal events on January 1, 2013: expiration of a temporary payroll tax cut, expiration of the so-called Bush income and estate tax...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
