Signs that checks and balances are working this week, with judges: ordering Trump's name be removed from the Kennedy Center; barring his $1.8 billion "slush fund" for his followers; and stopping the closure of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
Score one for affordable housing, with the City of Durango being awarded $1.55 million through the Colorado voter-approved Prop 123 for 50 deed-restricted townhomes at Rivergate.
Colorado passed a new law stiffening the penalties for people who fail to secure trash and other bear attractants. Maybe if guilt doesn't persuade them to lock up their trash, the threat of a $5,000 fine will?
In the slash and burn pile this week: Trump announced he is dismantling an ocean monitoring system that tracks marine ecosystems and warming waters; cancelling rebates for people switching from gas stoves and appliances to electric ones; and nullifying 50 years of limitations on off-highway vehicles on federal lands.
Despite 1,700 local voters signing the No Secret Police petition, which would have put banning face masks and requiring ID for federal agents to a vote, it was disqualified from the citywide ballot on what seems to be a technicality. We hope this is not the last of this discussion.
Have we mentioned lately how much we hate the Las Vegas Golden Knights?
