Our Voice: Dogs, Daycare and The Fine Line of the First Amendment
This past month, Ark Valley Voice (AVV) has covered two highly emotional news stories; the abrupt...
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Our Voice: Participation in the Public Processes Provided by Government
When citizens choose not to engage in the processes provided for our involvement in government,...
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Our Voice: In Praise of Civics Education and what it means for Democracy and Political Conversation
Labor Day is the traditional start of the election season in an election year. Every two years, ...
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Our Voice: Roadtrips across America, Fields of Corn and Threats to Democracy
It could be said that I have seen more of our country this summer than I have for years, and some of what I have seen has been disturbing, revealed in signage among the rolling fields of corn stalks and …
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Our Voice: Recognizing The Foot Soldiers of Fascism
“The reality is, if we don’t talk about it, [violent extremists] are going to continue to organize, and they’re going to continue to train. There are definitely lots of groups on the far right who want war. They are preparing for war. And not talking about it does not make us safer. What we’re heading toward is an insurgency, which is a form of a civil war. That is the 21st-century version of a civil war.”
Barbara Walters
Extremism expert
Our Voice: Is it OK to be a Unicorn?
In this particular day and age, it can be brutal to be a kid who is a little different. And...
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Our Voice: The Threat to our Democracy
The threat to our democracy is still here – and it’s real. Just hear the words of former...
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Our Voice: Confronting the Lies, Upon Lies, Upon Lies, Upon White Privilege
It was startling to see this post on the Chaffee County Republican Party Facebook page this past...
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Our Voice: Words, Mobs, History and a Warning for Leadership
No less than Congresswoman Liz Chaney (R – Wyoming) daughter of an American Vice President and the number three member of the House said, “There has never been greater betrayal of his office and his oath to the Constitution that what has been done by Donald Trump.”
We agree.
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Our Voice: COVID-19, Freedom and the ‘We’ of Responsibility
I was struck this past week by a breaking news notice from the Vail Daily. To save the 2020-2021...
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Our Voice: This is How Far We Are From the Gettysburg Address
In a mere 257 words, Lincoln delivered the case for the preservation of the union, the sacred trust that is our democracy and the responsibility that each of us carry to defend and pledge allegiance to the Constitution of what from that moment on came to be called THE United States of America.
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Our Voice:100 Years Ago Today Women Got the Vote
On this day 100 years ago, Aug. 18, 1920, it is possible that my great grandmother, my two...
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