Opinion

Opinion: Pick one person

The most recent school shooting hit too close to home. Twenty-five years of working as a special education teacher gave me the opportunity to spend time in most all of the elementary and middle school classrooms. I remember the increased security measures each year and the drills that ensured all[Read More…]

Letter to the Editor: Foiled fraud

Dear Editor: A few months ago I received a rather large bill in the mail. I had not purchased on item from this company nor had I received an item from them. When I called them, on of their suggestions was that I report it to the local police department,[Read More…]

It shouldn’t be easy

I just want to put a face on local small businesses in Rio Blanco County,” Matt Scoggins, a local Certified Public Accountant, told Rio Blanco County commissioners during public comment at Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting, which I attended Monday.

Letter to the Editor: Fair Tax

Dear Editor: Politicians seek the wrong solution to our economic woes. The income tax has failed. It has driven business away from the US. The only proposal before Congress that will fix our economy is the Fair Tax (HR25) not to be confused with the Flat Tax.

Letter to the Editor: ESA thank you

Dear Editor: We would like to say thank you to all of our sponsors who supported the ESA’s Holiday Bazaar. We were a little low on vendors but hope that all who came had a good time and made some money.

Letter to the Editor: Cruelty ignored

Dear Editor: The Nov. 29 issue published Meeker ordinance 7 on page 16A, outlining changes to titles 6, 9, and 10 of the Meeker municipal code. The ordinance appears to repeal chapter 9.4 which prohibits animal cruelty and neglect in Meeker. Nowhere else in the Meeker code is animal cruelty[Read More…]