Guest Opinion: Paycheck Protection Program
As if things weren’t hard enough for Colorado’s small businesses, news comes that the...
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Category: Guest Opinion
Guest Opinion: Trump Administration Takes Us from Emergency to Active Threat
When the presidency is turned against the voting system itself, a bitterly fought election becomes...
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Colorado’s mighty but overlooked small businesses still have time to grab a lifeline
Working for one of Colorado’s oldest family foundations, we heard panic from our community lending...
Read MoreBusiness Survival: Reopening and Thriving in a Pandemic Normal
As the season’s change, many of us perform spring and fall cleaning at home. Business owners should commit to a review of their business position and reflect on what is going right and what is not working. A business assessment...
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Guest Op-Ed: Stay Healthy, Stay Open
Recent news reports are filled with increases in coronavirus transmission in areas that rushed to...
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Guest OP-Ed: Open, Working, Sustainable Schedules … Now Schools
Hope for some summer normalcy is in the air. Your business may be open, community members are...
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Guest Opinion: Black Lives Matter in All Communities
Hello Community, The board and staff of Chaffee County Community Foundation (CCCF) feel it is...
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Guest Opinion: Education amid Adversity
We need to acknowledge that re-opening the schools comes with some risk. However, the operative objective will be to effectively manage that risk so that other critical educational values can be achieved.
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Guest Opinion: Strong supportive leadership essential to navigating COVID-19 pandemic response
Public health strategies work, and it takes all of us to make a difference. Because of the sacrifices made by everyone in our county, we have been successful in slowing the spread of the virus locally. Congratulations are in order. While we are not out of the woods yet, life can continue as we adapt to our “new normal.”
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James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’”
General James Mattis
Short Term Rentals, Campgrounds Key to Chaffee County Safe Awakening
From the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, we identified two primary threats to our community. First and most immediate was the novel virus itself because little was known about its aggressive nature. The second was the collateral...
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“All 20,000 of Us”
Whether and to what extent we experience a COVID-19 resurgence in Chaffee County will be significantly determined by the cumulative impact of our daily decision-making and behavior. The responsibility falls on all 20,000 of us. Whether or not we
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