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The La Plata Archuleta Cattlemen had their annual banquet on April 26. The highlight of the evening is the naming of the Cattleman of the Year. This year's honoree, selected by a committee...
DATE: May 22, 2014 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequently...
DATE: Sept. 4, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequently...
DATE: Sept. 2, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Summer's winding up with the start of back-to-school sales. Delicious Western Slope produce is showing up at the grocery stores and roadside stands. The last wave of summer visitors is cramming in...
DATE: Aug. 7, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
Summer’s winding up with the start of back-to-school sales. Delicious Western Slope produce is showing up at the grocery stores and roadside stands. The last wave of summer visitors is cramming in...
DATE: Aug. 5, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
It’s great to be back home, and I’m settling into the interim schedule, catching up with constituents in person and attending meetings on all sorts of topics around my senate district. Given the...
DATE: July 1, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
With the end of the legislative session in early May, I now write new columns monthly rather than the session’s weekly efforts. One constituent thanked me for my “letters from the war zone” and I...
DATE: June 6, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
With the end of the legislative session in early May, I now write new columns monthly rather than the session's weekly efforts. One constituent thanked me for my "letters from the war zone" and I...
DATE: June 5, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
With the end of the legislative session in early May, I now write new columns monthly rather than the session's weekly efforts. One constituent thanked me for my "letters from the war zone" and I...
DATE: June 4, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
As the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, the 2013 legislative session comes to a close. There will be a number of efforts seeking to sum up the work that we did and, depending on your political...
DATE: May 7, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
As the clock strikes midnight on Wednesday, the 2013 legislative session comes to a close. There will be a number of efforts seeking to sum up the work that we did and, depending on your political...
DATE: May 6, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature
This is the last full week of the 2013 session. Still to be debated and voted on in the Senate are many weighty topics, some presented in lengthy bills of over 100 pages. Examples are dramatic...
DATE: April 29, 2013 | COLUMN: Life in the Legislature