Is Violence again Political Speech in America? November 6, 2020: Post Election Day before Winner Declared: The integrity of the U.S. Election is under a full-scale attack led by one man: the President who appears to be losing. Trump continues to tweet and call out “massive election fraud” and “a Read more…
Are you a satanic villain, or are they? “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone Read more…
According to the Colorado Department of Education’s needs inventory, more than 65,000 students in Colorado lack internet access at home. Eagle County School District Superintendent, Philip Qualman shared results from a survey the district did during the extended COVID closure last spring which found that “8% of ECSD students don’t Read more…
It’s time to check-in with your County Clerk I spoke with Janice Vos Caudill, Pitkin County Clerk and Recorder who just completed a primary election on June 30th to ask her about the challenges of running an election and to put into perspective what we are hearing from the national Read more…
Some of the most elegant solutions in public management are also simple. Avon has done significant work to improve streetscapes, and pedestrian friendliness in recent years with significant public outreach and extended planning exercises, including a paint it, and live it before you build it experimental approach to planning. Years Read more…
Practically everyone adapted rapidly in March and April. In calls to municipal and county managers I asked, “How is the morale of your staff?” The answers reveal that public employees have made hundreds of adjustments, major and minor. It is becoming clear that aspects of the past 5 months reveal Read more…
I had a rare, fleeting day of compassion for the President’s humanity recently while reading a Washington Post story, “Trump the victim: President complains in private about the pandemic hurting himself.” In the time of COVID, I suppose I can identify with being a victim of circumstance. The pandemic is Read more…
A Summit Daily story from June 18th entitled, ‘Backbone of our Workforce’ addresses how COVID has disproportionally hit the Hispanic community. Many of our workforce woes, in construction, tourism and basic services are filled by this vital demographic. During this period of isolation with so few visitors, it has become Read more…
Four Chiefs of Police, the Sheriff and Colorado State Patrol Captain in Eagle County published a letter in the Vail Daily on June 3rd condemning the “murder” of George Floyd and noting the officer’s “criminal intent” while calling for the community to “work with us to continue the building of Read more…
Asked another way, when trust in government weakens, how can we increase the level of trust in each other? Albert Camus said in The Plague, “…what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.” For one, we can live admirably. Read more…