Following a tumultuous 20 months in Douglas County surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and decisions on how to handle protocols in schools, voters chose to elect some candidates who say they plan to bring changes.
The Tri-County Health Department is preparing to hand over COVID-19 response services to the new Douglas County Health Department early next month despite an agreement to provide those and other public health services for the county through next year.
It should be a given: Local elected leaders — whether in Pueblo or Aurora or Colorado Springs or anyplace else — are in a better position to contain COVID than