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We're all downstream or downwind from something. That became all too visible last week as what's now listed as 3 million gallons of orange toxic waste from a long-abandoned gold mine above...
DATE: Aug. 13, 2015 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
This might be the year for Colorado taxpayers to take a serious look at the TABOR (Taxpayers' Bill of Rights) Amendment that voters put into the state constitution in 1992. Along with providing...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2015 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
Ballots for the Nov. 4 local, state, and national elections were mailed to registered voters last week. They need to be returned to the county clerk by 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 to be counted. Postmarks...
DATE: Oct. 23, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
The annual LPEA board election is happening now, at least for some co-op members. Letters to the editor have become rather heated, especially regarding incumbent nine-year board member Jeff...
DATE: May 16, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
Tuesday was Earth Day. For some of us, that's an occasion to recognize that the Earth is the only global life support system we've got, and we should treat her accordingly. For others, the Earth is...
DATE: April 24, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
Our worthies in congress are on yet another of their taxpayer-funded vacations. Before they left town, they busied themselves voting on political statements that have zero chance of becoming law....
DATE: April 17, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
The pro-corporate majority on the U.S. Supreme Court took steps last week to move the U.S. still farther toward government of, by, and for the fat cats and big corporations (as if we aren't already...
DATE: April 11, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
It's spring break time, so I'm taking the week off from political commentary. Gawd knows we need a break from politics! The magazine that comes with the Sunday newspaper had an item that I...
DATE: March 28, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
School districts around the state have been hit with more than $1 billion of state funding take-backs since 2009 because of state revenue shortfalls. Districts dealt with the cuts as best they...
DATE: March 13, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
Carole McWilliamsEarlier this month, the media noted the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Now we have the war on the poor, and the non-rich more generally.Earlier...
DATE: March 2, 2014 | COLUMN: View from the Boondocks
