Letter to the Editor
I was weeding my rock garden and disliking every minute of it so I began to compose a poem in my head. It is meant to be recited to the cadence of Dr Suess's Green Eggs and Ham.
I do not like it, no indeed I do not like to have to weed I would rather plant the seed Than do this never-ending deed I would see this whole place treed So I would never have to weed But someday again I'll have to weed If our lovely garden is to succeed Deborah Behringer, Colorado City Letter to the Editor The cost of mail delivery.
We currently do not have a local post office run by a postal contractor.
Nor do we see any effort by the USPS to get our mail to us at Colorado City.
It would seem to me that each citizen who drives to Pueblo to get their own mail, is by default, an individual postal contractor handling and delivering to Colorado City, US Mail.
So having said that, the IRS has set the reimbursable cost per mile at $0.58. So, it would seem to me, as ad hoc USPS contractors, we should be able to bill the USPS around $35 +- for each trip back and forth to the North side of Pueblo to get our mail.
Steven LaHue Colorado City Dear Editor Your editorial printed July 28th prompted me to respond. We absolutely should vote for the best candidate. Unfortunately, I think all too often the best candidate chooses not to run because politics runs afoul of common sense, ethics and motivation to serve the interests of the people. You pointed out that both major parties act in their party’s interest rather than the interests of the electorate. This is often true. We the people have allowed this to happen despite George Washington’s warning in his farewell address against factions or what we call today parties.
Of course that may be because we don’t teach that kind of history in schools anymore. Nor do we teach that we live in a Democratic Republic. Our constitution attempted to build a framework where the people would elect representatives who would then represent the electorate's views, but that too often is not how things work today.
Princeton University research points this out (https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig). For example, several million Democrats identify themselves as pro life, yet their leaders often say things inferring they should get out of their party. If they did and became Republicans, Republicans would outnumber Democrats by a substantial margin. They don’t. On the other hand, most Republicans believe that their representatives are conservatives, yet in this last Colorado legislature conservatives were not only in the minority of the legislature, they were in the minority of their own party. Special interests dominate politics today. Of course this isn’t a new problem. The scale of it is new. HB-1279 is a good example. Polls show that 83% of Americans don’t agree with infanticide, yet 20 hours of ordinary citizens' testimonies opposing the bill had little effect. It passed anyway. No wonder people are leaving both parties and becoming unaffiliated. We the people need to do more to make sure WE are represented. I attempted to do more by proposing a citizens initiative to limit campaign expenses to a percentage of eligible voters' contributions.
We, unfortunately, did not get enough signatures to get on the ballot, but we the people need to take back our government. Regardless if we are R's, D's or U's.
Jonathan Ambler House District 46 - candidate