Roughly 25 years ago, I attended my first LPEA annual meeting, and the keynote speaker from Tri-State gave a talk titled, “The Myth of Renewable Energy.” He mainly spoke about how bad renewables are, ...

I’ve dedicated my career to mental health care in Colorado, from working on the front lines as a clinician to now operating a clinic that employs 10 skilled professionals. Throughout my career, I have ...

If you ask me, “scanners can’t handle paw prints” sounds like a way for some county clerk to pass the buck and shush annoying Coloradans. You just know there’s plenty of fourteener-summiting people ...

Elon Musk bought his way into our government by spending $290 million on Trump’s reelection campaign. Musk’s businesses have received $38 billion in government contracts, loans and tax credits. Now, ...

Most Americans agree that our government could use a careful examination of operations for improving efficiencies and reducing costs, fraud and waste. But there should be careful oversight, with ...

La Plata Electric Association offers rebates to members who buy electric vehicle (EV) chargers, and electric lawnmowers, snowblowers, bikes and similar expensive equipment. But is this fair for ...

When La Plata County needed a director of emergency management in 2021, it found a winner in Shawna Legarza. An experienced firefighter, her career has spanned battling big fires on the ground to ...

The EO provides for the cheap dumping of mine waste even where a valid mine doesn’t exist. For Trump, the concepts that the Earth is small, its resources limited and that the unregulated release of ...

If, like many locals, you’ve been wondering over the years why the heck no one has opened a campground near the mountain biking mini mecca of Phil’s World, you can stop. Ramble Campgrounds, the Golden ...

Editor’s note: The April 3 edition of the Telegraph contained a letter by “Margaret E. Cozine Landrum” of Durango. The letter came from New Mode, an online civic engagement platform that sends ...

While federal fire mitigation efforts are being cut, LPEA has expanded ours. Using grid mapping and drones, they’ve launched proactive teams to create defensible spaces, increased tree trimming in ...

Is there anything better than having everything you love under one tent? This last weekend for the 11th annual Durango Wine Experience, lovers of food and wine (and beer and cocktails) were able to ...