Reuben Schafir

To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language Elders say it's not too late to save their mother tongue, and a younger generation is stepping up to help.

To fight loss, Passamaquoddy speakers are talking new life into their language

Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings The Appalachian Mountain Club is repatriating the parcel to its former Indigenous stewards as part of a larger acquisition finalized Tuesday.

Penobscot Nation to reclaim 1,700 acres in rural Maine as tribe grows land holdings

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A $25.4 million CORA request - Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition The bill from the Pikes Peak Library District in El Paso County wasn’t $25,000. It was $25 million. More precisely, it was $25,377,971.43.

about that $25 million public records request. #copolitics via @coloradofoic.bsky.social

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23,000 gallons of gasoline spilled into their yard; now, this Durango couple can’t go home Heather Houk was at work one December afternoon when her husband called to say they had to evacuate their house. By the time she returned to their 3-acre property on the Florida Mesa around 5 p.m., fi...

The Dec. 5 gasoline spill from a leaking pipeline in La Plata County was bigger than first reported—a lot bigger.

Durango schools want to address ‘bad actors’ who wield transparency laws The 26 requests to inspect public records received by Durango School District 9-R in the last two years – just over one per month – does not exactly sound like an onslaught, according to Jeff Roberts,...

"The Durango school board’s third legislative priority this year: to limit 'extreme or gratuitous' paperwork-generating records requests and legal inquiries." via @reubenschafir.bsky.social www.durangoherald.com/articles/dur...

CFOIC’s 2024 year in review: a more opaque legislature, pricier public records, closed disciplinary records, child autopsies, police officer database and CORA ‘abuse’    - Colorado Freedom of Informat... Coloradans in 2024 lost ground in the never-ending battle for access to government information.

Looking back at the past 12 months, there weren’t a lot of wins for the public’s right to know. #coleg #copolitics

From the inbox today… I don’t know how to handle such charms!

Hermosa Creek federal protections turn 10 Sandwiched between the Animas River and the Dolores River divide sits a patch of dense, coniferous forest named for and defined by the exceedingly cold and clear Hermosa Creek. Nearly all of the water...

Ten years after it passed, the Hermosa Creek bill continues to remind us all of what our democracy can do at its best.

Facing cuts, La Plata County adopts slimmed down 2025 budget La Plata County commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a significantly pared-down budget for 2025. With some anguish about cuts – the 2025 budget outlines a 25% decrease in spending from the a...

When the all-Democratic Board of County Commissioners in La Plata County passed the 2025 budget yesterday, members had strong words for the #coleg , which they blame for an 11% drop in tax revenue.

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“We may be having to look at what those statutory mandates are that seem to pile up year after year after year from the Legislature, with very little recognition that 64 counties in Colorado are the ones that pay,” La Plata County Commissioner Marsha Porter-Norton said.

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Colorado River states hold an uncomfortable reunion this week in Vegas As the Colorado River Water Users Association gathers, the seven river states are like kids coming home to a family reunion. Policy watchers are frustrated with their level of disagreement.

Some worry that if the states aren’t able to settle their differences, other water users who aren’t part of the conversation (tribes and environmentalists) could get left behind.

Change in Silverton was inevitable – how it happened may not have been SILVERTON – The former mayor of Silverton came under fire soon after he stepped into office. At a meeting in late April 2020, one of Shane Fuhrman’s first as mayor, then-Trustee Molly Barela cited his...

“What these places all share, is, increasingly, they have a question of who belongs”

Pt. 2/2 of my series on Silverton and how the towns former mayor pursued his own development ambitions while in office out today

Durango alpinist Kurt Blair presumed dead on New Zealand peak Durangoan Kurt Blair, an internationally certified mountain guide known throughout the San Juan Mountains as an affable, empathic and highly skilled professional, is missing and presumed dead on Aorak...

“He was living his dream,” Katrina said of her older brother. “… Mt. Cook was one of those incredible dream-come-true mountains.

In Silverton, a developer saw unmined potential. Then he was elected mayor SILVERTON – Shane Fuhrman’s social media presence would stoke the coals of envy in any skier who longs for snowy bliss. His Instagram page features high-resolution footage of Fuhrman, the former mayor...

In Silverton, a developer saw unmined potential. Then he was elected mayor

The product of many months of reporting, out this weekend

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Four months after their capture, Durango bear cubs return to the wild SAN JUAN NATIONAL FOREST – With a bound, a tumble and not a second of hesitation, three bear cubs fled the open crate and disappeared from the clearing. Two of the triplets paused for a moment, explo...

A success story for these cubs, who were captured after their mom broke into a home near Durango and was euthanized.
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Hanging out with Colorado Parks and Wildlife yesterday as wildlife officers released 3 black bear cubs back into the wild after 5 months in rehab.