{"id":1318047,"date":"2020-02-03T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=993245"},"modified":"2020-02-03T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T02:44:57","slug":"tuesday-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/tuesday-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday letters:"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Monsters out on bail<\/strong><\/p>\n

Can you imagine a place where you can legitimately watch a child drink methamphetamine, hallucinate and subsequently die? <\/p>\n

Me neither. This really did happen. And the three people who have been charged with such a heinous atrocity have been released on bond. Really? <\/p>\n

This county\u2019s liberal government is a joke. Sadly these three people will never see a court room again, at least for this offence. I hope the district attorney can sleep well, knowing that he has unleashed these monsters back into our society.<\/p>\n

Rudi Kirchenwitz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rifle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Save our country from despotism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The last week in January, three readers \u2014 IIlene Pevec, Ed Colby and Linda Carr \u2014 articulated their concerns about Senate members not providing witnesses for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. As we all know, senators chose acquittal and turned an almost unanimous deaf ear to all evidence and the call for witnesses.<\/p>\n

Rep. Joe Kennedy III said: \u201cSenate Republicans made their choice. They ignored yours. Their power is temporary. Yours isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

My first responses to this news were disbelief, disgust, anger and fear, followed by a personal call for action. Now\u2019s the time for our state (that\u2019s us) and our country to talk back. At the top of this list is Cory Gardner whose despicable actions should assure that he does not serve another term as senator.<\/p>\n

Let this be the beginning of our effort to save this country from the domination of despotism. It would be a symbol that democracy is still alive if even one senator holding out against witnesses would truthfully explain their actions. It\u2019s almost beyond belief that tyranny from the top has stilled all their voices. \u201cProfiles in courage\u201d died on Friday with their votes.<\/p>\n

For others who fear for our future, it\u2019s important to continue to be heard. A start would be within our own state, by going to Sen. Gardner\u2019s website and sending him an email expressing your views. Or in tune with Mr. Colby\u2019s suggestion, you can leave a phone message at Sen. Gardner\u2019s Washington office: 202-224-5941.<\/p>\n

Opinion writer Dick Polman\u2019s column on Jan. 31 compared what happened within the Senate to the mentality of the 17th century reign of France\u2019s Louis XIV who declared \u201cL\u2019etat c\u2019est moi (\u201cI am the State\u201d).<\/p>\n

No, Mr. President (and senators), you are not, we are.<\/p>\n

Syd Kanitz<\/strong><\/p>\n

New Castle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attend Marble Museum open house<\/strong><\/p>\n

Feel like you got a touch of cabin fever coming on? Head up to the Marble Museum Feb. 8 from 1\u20136 p.m.<\/p>\n

Speakers are authors Larry Meredith, Darrell Munsell, professor emeritus Tom Pratter, professor emeritus Bruce Bartleson and professor Duane Vandenbusche.<\/p>\n

Check out the displays while you are there. The event is free. The Marble Museum is located in the historic Marble High School building, located at 412 W. Main St.<\/p>\n

Lynn Burton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carbondale<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sounds like bribery<\/strong><\/p>\n

If withholding money until someone has to do a favor to get what was already meant to be theirs is not bribery, what is?<\/p>\n

 Gerry Terwilliger<\/strong><\/p>\n

Basalt<\/strong><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monsters out on bail Can you imagine a place where you can legitimately watch a child drink methamphetamine, hallucinate and subsequently die?  Me neither. This really did happen. And the three people who have been charged with such a heinous atrocity have been released on bond. Really?  This county\u2019s liberal government is a joke. Sadly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1318047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 01:54:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}