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A school bus heads toward Mancos, in southwestern Colorado, on Dec. 12. The town's school board recently voted 4-1 against arming teachers and administrators.

Butcher: A Western town says 鈥渘o鈥� to arming teachers

February 23, 2018 at 12:00 p.m.

A generation ago, had the school board in my small town scheduled a vote to potentially arm school staff and administrators, no one would have batted an eye.

Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter thanks volunteer firefighters who had fought the Fourmile Canyon fire in Boulder in September 2010. Nearly two-thirds of the approximately 30,000 fire departments nationwide are run solely by volunteers.

Butcher: Volunteer firefighters are the guardians of the rural West

August 10, 2017 at 10:18 a.m.

If the universe wanted to challenge volunteer firefighters, it would arrange for a fire emergency right smack in the middle of a small town鈥檚 annual festival, when fire crews are...

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