Category: Guest Opinion

Guest Opinion: Chaffee Move to COVID Yellow Requires Increased Vigilance

by Community Contributor | Feb 9, 2021 | 0

With the new Yellow category allowing for only sixty new cases per week, Chaffee County is just one outbreak away from CDPHE returning us to the Orange.

Guest Opinion: Oil trains through our valley could spell disaster

by Community Contributor | Jan 21, 2021 | 0

Like many local residents, when Friends of Browns Canyon first learned that the Colorado Midland...

A Seasoned Journalist Comments: Reacting to the D.C. Trump Mob Violence – What’s Next?

by Daniel Smith | Jan 11, 2021 | 0

It’s taken a while for the country to absorb and analyze the sickening scenes we saw last week in...

Guest Opinion: Time for an intervention in Chaffee County

by Community Contributor | Jan 10, 2021 | 0

Chaffee Dems Deplore Mob Action at United States Capitol Members of the public need to understand...

Guest Opinion: Senator John Hickenlooper Reflects on Capitol Domestic Terrorism

by Community Contributor | Jan 9, 2021 | 0

Newly sworn-in Senator John Hickenlooper has joined a chorus of legislative voices, including...

Guest Opinion: Chaffee Community Priorities for 2021

by Community Contributor | Jan 7, 2021 | 0

As we leave a uniquely difficult year behind us and look with guarded hope toward 2021, it is...

Guest Opinon: Rome is Burning

by Community Contributor | Nov 5, 2020 | 0

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris may eke out a win, but the massive support for Donald J. Trump shows that the American electorate maintains a selfish disposition with a tendency toward self-destruction. The President continues to...

Guest Opinion: Making a Case for Career Technical Education

by Community Contributor | Oct 21, 2020 | 0

“The Times They Are a Changin’.” So wrote Bob Dylan in the 1960’s, and...

Guest Opinion: Chaffee’s Real Cost of extending the Nestlé’s 1041 Permit

by Community Contributor | Oct 14, 2020 | 0

The cost to Chaffee County and the state of extending Nestlé’s 1041 permit greatly outweighs the...

Guest Opinion: Where we are at with COVID-19

by Jan Wondra | Oct 12, 2020 | 0

If you had asked me at the beginning of 2020 what my outlook for the year was, I would have said...

Guest opinion: Prop 113 Gives Voice to Colorado Conservatives

by Community Contributor | Oct 1, 2020 | 5

I am the ghost of Colorado conservatives’ future, a warning to those who choose not to listen to those of us who have seen a party collapse from its own political shortsightedness. Colorado is California 25 years ago....

Guest Opinion: Paycheck Protection Program

by Community Contributor | Aug 31, 2020 | 0

As if things weren’t hard enough for Colorado’s small businesses, news comes that the...

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