Judge Lobato denied a motion by Deputy District Attorney Connor Wills that was made on behalf of Durango Arts Center Director Brenda Macon, who felt unnerved at the idea of me working at a property across the street from her home. Additionally, Ms. Macon has been worried after she received phone calls with heavy breathing ever since a video of her was published on the Press For Transparency website, said Wills. My jury trial for allegedly trespassing at Durango Arts Center was supposed to happen…

Durango Arts Center Director Brenda Macon made multiple false representations in an application and letter of solicitation for 2022 Lodger’s Tax Arts and Culture funds. After City officials received the application, the City of Durango awarded the Lodger’s Tax money to Durango Arts Center. Notably, the City of Durango’s 2022 Lodger’s Tax money was used to repair the roof of Durango Arts Center (DAC) following Brenda Macon’s submission of their application under false pretenses. Macon signed and submitted an Acknowledgement of Acceptance form on behalf…

San Juan Basin Public Health removed numerous bullet points of misinformation from their web page about the COVID-19 vaccines. Specifically, some time after Feb. 10, 2022, the public health agency deleted an entire web page about the jabs. They replaced it with a web page minus the same misinformation that they had previously published. In 2022, the URL https://sjbpublichealth.org/covid-19-vaccine/ was replaced with a page having less information. The newer page was published at the URL: https://sjbpublichealth.org/202/Vaccine. Some previous versions of their web pages about the…

District Court Judge Suzanne Carlson ordered the City of Durango to make a draft financial statement from the year 2021 available for public inspection following the city’s denial of the record to a local resident. John Simpson sued City Clerk Faye Harmer in her official capacity after she repeatedly denied his requests for the record(s) that he made pursuant to the Colorado Open Records Act. Defendant Harmer made the argument that the release of the draft audit materials would cause significant public harm, because it…

Boards and commissions appointed by City of Durango Councilors will soon be dissolved in order to free up staff time and tax dollars that was previously spent working with them. The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board was obviously disappointed about it. The dissolution was proposed by city staff and councilors for the following reasons, according to the agenda packet: Remove redundancy and increase efficiency. Retain and enhance a high level of customer service, ensure transparency, and allow for adequate public input. Lessen unnecessary administrative burden…

Judge Shopshire ruled against the plaintiffs on January 30, 2023 that were suing the District 9-R Board of Education and its election official for failure to timely declare a board vacancy and hold a required election. The contention began when Board Member Andrea Parmenter vacated the district that she was living in while serving on the board for that district. Then, while allegedly living in a different district (District E), Parmenter allegedly voted on board business at board meeting(s) (5/11/2021, 5/25/2021, 6/22/2021, 6/28/2021), according to…

Durango Arts Center Executive Director Brenda Macon lied to the police about the ownership and funding status of our fractionally-owned public property in order to have me trespassed while video recording in publicly accessible areas during their business hours. While peacefully recording the art exhibits in the gallery, the gift shop and then the theater, I was confronted by some people who were rehearsing on stage. Geoff Johnson, and some other people on stage saw me peacefully recording by myself next to the seating area.…

Brian Devine, Environmental Health Director for San Juan Basin Public Health, failed to intimidate me from video recording what I could see in public at a public meeting at Durango Public Library.  At a public presentation that Peter Diethrich was giving on behalf of SJBPH, Devine told me that I couldn’t video record members of the public in the library without getting their permission first. In response, I told him that he was wrong and soon after recorded everyone at the meeting. Before starting…

Dissolution of San Juan Basin Public Health district via a joint resolution was approved by La Plata County Board of Commissioners at their November 15, 2022 meeting. Specifically, the La Plata County and Archuleta County Boards voted the dissolution of SJBPH to occur on December 31, 2023. When La Plata County creates its new health department, they will begin by funding it with $750,000 dollars, said County Commissioner Marsha Porter Norton. Reasons given by the County Manager Chuck Stevens and County Commissioner Porter Norton for…

Search and rescue professional and City of Durango resident Leo Lloyd III died of a heart attack while mountain biking with one of his sons on August 4, 2022. He had received numerous COVID-19 jabs, his brother said. At the age of 60, Lloyd will be known for how kind and caring he was for his friends and family, his brother Joe Lloyd said. “He’s just a good guy,” said Lloyd. “If you were ever to go climbing with him and he was teaching you…

An unlawful discriminatory sign that attempted to prohibit skateboards or bicycles at Rotary Park under the pretense of a City of Durango ordinance was removed by public officials within a week of me raising questions about it. Specifically, the sign said, “No Skateboards or Bicycles In Park. Violators will be Prosecuted City Ordinance #1834.” Fortunately, there is NOT actually an Ordinance #1834 that prohibits skateboards or bicycles in Rotary Park. In fact, my search of city ordinances on the city’s public records portal web page…

The Colorado State Board of Education chided the Durango School District 9-R Board of Education for not cooperating with a charter school application process. Vice Chair Steve Durham, of the State Board of Education, said that he noticed a pattern. “I really think that this is typical of what we see out of the Durango School District. Rather than working cooperatively and in good will with people, that board goes out of its way not to.” Durango School District 9-R had ignored Ascent Classical Academy…

A 6-year-old Durango boy who had a stroke and became paralyzed following his experimental-use (EUA) COVID-19 vaccination has returned home to recover after his hospitalization. He is home and he’s under the care of his parents, said Karen Zink, the great aunt of Abel Short. Zink was unwilling to talk much about Abel, saying that to do so would be speaking out of turn, given the private lifestyles of his parents. However, Zink did say that 6-year-old Abel Short had received a COVID-19 vaccine. She…

A new trail is being constructed on Half Ridge Trail (formerly known as Raider Ridge) that briefly follows the alignment of the old Kitty Charmer Trail. The trail is not done yet. Once opened, it will cross over the Nose of the ridge several times. R.I.P. Kitty Charmer Trail–A trail loved by many, closed by City officials Previous iterations of Kitty Charmer Trail had super fun dirt jumps. It’s unclear if this new trail will have any jumps. However, it should have some dirt jumps.…

Pericarditis was the “natural” cause of death that pathologist Dr. Michael Arnall listed on an Autopsy Report for a young teenage girl on February 5, 2022. Samantha Ann Rock, 13, of Ignacio, died on December 19, 2021 at Mercy Medical Center, according to her obituary. What’s unnatural about the listed “natural” cause of death was that teenage girls rarely die of pericarditis–with or without a COVID-19 infection present. Local pathologist gives context to natural versus accidental manners of death To put some context to the…

An existing city ordinance was amended by Durango City Council on April 19, 2022 to allow class 1 electrical assisted bikes at Twin Buttes Open Space trails. Specifically, they voted to amend Article 3, Chapter 18 of the code of ordinances for the City of Durango. Ordinance 2022-16 regulates the use of vehicles on parks, trails and open space, and the amendment creates an additional exception for class 1 electrical assisted bicycles located within Twin Buttes development, and declaring an effective date. “It’s kind of…

A vaccinated employee of San Juan Basin Public Health died of an enlarged heart last year, according to the pathologist’s autopsy report. The death certificate of Lesley Marie, 56 years old, lists her manner of death as natural. At the same time, it lists her cause of death as cardiomegaly. She died at home on September 11, 2021. Marie was a mother and grandmother of several children in Durango. On Linkedin, Marie is listed as the Deputy Director of Administrative Services at San Juan Basin…

Establishments in Durango are discriminating against people based on COVID-19 medical procedures, but they are easy to avoid. This post contains an ongoing list of businesses and non-profit organizations that discriminate against people at their facilities or events who are unwilling or unable to engage in COVID-19 medical procedures. 3rd Ave Arts and St. Mark’s Episcopal Church–establishments that discriminate Alarmingly, the church is being used as a facility for 3rd Ave Arts that’s excluding those who refuse to participate in medical rape prior to entering…

Durango School District 9-R Board of Education is suing Ascent Classical Academies for submitting its application top open a charter school too early before the deadline that the District established. In a mostly inaudible study session that was broadcasted on Zoom, the Board President Kristin Smith announced the lawsuit on March 8, 2022. “Under state law, the Board of Education has exclusive authority to authorize charter schools within District boundaries. This means that any group interested in opening a charter school here must apply to…

A Durango man is walking and driving again after being hospitalized due to blood clots that his doctor said were probably caused by the J&J/Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, the man said. Andrew Pietrack is the husband of Aruna, and a father of a newborn. Before the adverse event, he worked as a baseball coach. Pietrack has no family history of blood clotting disorders, he said. While Pietrack did receive a J&J/Janssen jab which is known to cause blood clots, his doctors had previously thought that the…