The View From Here
Mayor Bob always sought to act in city’s best interest
Comments | RecommendMayor Bob didn't go in for sugar glaze. We wouldn't want to lay it on too thick before his memorial service on Friday. It would be disrespectful. Bob Isaac liked Dewar's scotch and a good smoke, and he loved Colorado...
Volunteers do a whole lot of good with kid immunizations
Comments | RecommendSteve Brown looked out at his group of volunteers Saturday morning and told them, "We're going to try to do a little bit of good today." Nurses and other volunteers were preparing to administer immunizations to needy kids for...
County health department budget cuts are sickening
Comments | RecommendWhen the health department is sick, things are getting pretty bad. Big budget cuts are hamstringing the El Paso County Department of Health and Environment's ability to fight infectious diseases and inspect restaurants. County taxpayer dollars for the...
He’s learned the hard way: Ex-con earns 2 degrees
Comments | RecommendThe future's so bright, Alex Matheson can put his shady past behind him. On May 23, the twice-convicted felon paroled after spending a couple of years in prison will join about 700 others in a cap-and-gown procession at the University...
We know who the dim bulb with the big mouth is
Comments | RecommendAin't nobody here but us illiterate peasants. We're all so gol dang dumb, we can't even recognize a godlike genius, Nietzsche's Superman, when we're basking in his aura. We're all too stupid to see the planet is a vast intellectual wasteland populated...
Scare tactics shouldn’t keep us from using nuclear power
Comments | RecommendHere comes Earth Day, time to highlight how environmentalists have wrongly used scare tactics to discourage nuclear energy, and that we must turn that around. Three Mile Island in 1979 was America's biggest nuclear...
BARRY NOREEN: Only answer to wolf-dog problem is to shoot, shovel
Comments | RecommendThe best solution for a pack of wolfdogs involves a rifle and a shovel....
BARRY NOREEN: Plans to drill natural gas unearth new activists
Comments | RecommendEl Paso County residents never thought the national push for natural gas would come to their backyard. Now that it has, there may be little they can do about it....
It’s hard to call stormwater fee anything except a tax
Comments | RecommendDave Derryberry doesn't want to open fire on City Hall or secede from the Union. But he hasn't paid his stormwater bill because he believes what City Hall calls a "fee" is actually a tax that he should have had the right to vote on under the Colorado...
BARRY NOREEN: TAPS program helps military families cope with loss
Comments | RecommendMelissa Givens and Bridgette Van Dusen are bracing for the arrival of another May. ...
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