Easing methane rules a bad idea for climate

Sc ientists tell us, in no uncertain terms, that reducing methane is the quickest and most cost-effective way to help slow the rate of climate change, stop the waste of a nonrenewable resource and protect public health.

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To subscribe call 303-566-4100 a wide a range and anyone can be a target if your view or political thinking is different than the other person. It has gotten so bad that I dropped off Next Door and Facebook. Representative Scott Bottoms (R-Colorado Springs) summed it up by saying “Online discourse is awful.” That’s brief and to the point.

Protecting their social media

A proposed law before the state legislature is indicative of what I am describing.

House Bill 23-1306 would allow elected officials to block their personal social media from the general public. It would not pertain to the government e-mail or Twitter accounts which elected officials have.

So, the public could still communicate with the elected official, but not be able to access their personal accounts. The ACLU believes such provisions are unconstitutional while House members on both sides of the aisle in the State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee believe it is the appropriate thing to do.

State Representative Leslie Herod (D-Denver) said it best “It wasn’t contemplated by the Founding Fathers. If someone comes into the House gallery and yells obscenities, we can ask them to leave. If they come to our town halls, we can do the same thing. So social media — we have to figure out how to manage that.”

I fully support this bill. Elected officials at all levels of government take a lot of crap. While they

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Values go up, but do they ever go down?

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Despite this, House Republicans recently passed a troubling energy-related package, HR 1, including a bill that would remove a hardwon program within the Infla-

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LUKE ZARZECKI Community Editor lzarzecki@coloradocommunitymedia.com tion Reduction Act that is critical to fighting climate change: the Methane Emissions Reduction Program. Fortunately, the legislation isn’t expected to move beyond the House, and President

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We have our new valuation in hand for our south ornton home. e increase from last valuation is an astounding 30.9%! is is just laughable.

But a question comes to mind…Do we ever see valuations go down? Has this ever occurred?

It has not happened to us...EVER!

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