Along with the always added less efficient and more wasteful. Did you look at your ballot that arrived in your mailbox this past week? Seriously, there are 45 different candidates, judges, initiatives or power and tax grabs apparently in serious need of your vote to get implemented into Colorado law or lawmaking on top of […]
And that’s just the way those folks with the power and money like it. Well, love it. Because if we’re fighting, they are amassing more power and money. And again, it doesn’t matter what we’re fighting over or about, there will always be select elite ready, willing and able to take your side and (not) […]
We have two educators running for the Colorado State Board of Education CD-3 seat in November. It may please you or surprise you to know that both have actually been in a classroom. Sherri Wright, running as the incumbent, was a teacher for 20 years in Colorado and Texas. She taught middle school and was […]
Yes, as I type, I’m back home again in beautiful Michigan. And you probably could guess if you know anything about me at all related to my favorite pastime, I’m in my home state playing golf. And as much as I enjoy the rounds I play in my now hometown of Grand Junction, there’s just […]
For our federal government, that is. Historically, it refers to the calls of “cart drivers” who roamed villages collecting corpses during plagues during the darker ages of civilizations that have come and gone before us. In the United States today, it means one of the houses of Congress really needs your vote. Then again, laws […]
Mature trees matter in Grand Junction. They provide shade, reduce heat, improve neighborhoods and add character to a community built in a high desert. But that was never the question. The Grand Junction City Council recently considered whether to repeal the city’s Significant Trees provision. Since then, much of the discussion has focused on whether […]
There have been a lot of conversations about Mesa County’s budget lately, and I think people deserve to understand not only what we are doing, but why. Government budgets can get complicated quickly. We start talking about TABOR, reserves, intergovernmental revenue, vacancy savings and unfunded mandates, and pretty soon we’ve made something unnecessarily difficult to […]
Then again, there’s evil everywhere inside the atmosphere we know as planet Earth. You can choose not to believe it or hide it or mask it, but for those of us who see it, it’s not going anywhere. September 11 just happens to be one of the most glaring reminders of evil in our time, […]
And the fact I can write that as a headline proves that I’m probably insane. It’s also the most depressing headline I’ve ever written, because the range of emotions it will stir will run the spectrum on many agendas and feelings, yet it will only serve to destroy what was once the rule of law […]
And in my examples of the “things” for the purposes of this column, one thing is beyond heinous to the level of evil, and the other is pretty much petty, if not stupid. But let’s go on the journey anyways and talk about these things, because there’s a third thing that is my personal thing, […]