Opinion

71st General Assembly: Legislative session touted as most production in years

The 71st session of the Colorado General Assembly moved the state forward on a variety of fronts, to a degree not seen in previous years, thanks to a willingness to compromise by both parties, and...

DATE: May 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Public Lands: Spring is a great time to get outside and informed about a threat to public lands

Some Americans are not so lucky. They will never experience the majesty of the American West and the bounty and the beauty of its public lands. These lands and the waters that flow through them...

DATE: May 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

City of parks: Celebration recognizes history and public parks as community assets

Cortez celebrated its parks on Saturday, with a little assistance from city preservation board members. It was the city’s 8th annual Historic Preservation Day in the midst of National Historic...

DATE: May 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

BLM headquarters: Agency needs to improve its decision processes, but a move will not do that

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) and Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) recently introduced legislation into their respective chambers to authorize moving the Bureau of Land Management’s Washington, D.C.,...

DATE: May 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Western Excelsior: Fire was a disaster, an opportunity and a lesson for our community

The fire at Western Excelsior is a major disaster not only for the company and its employees, but for the Town of Mancos. It is also an opportunity. Not one Mancos would have sought, but one that...

DATE: May 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Kids Count: Childhood poverty harms entire communities, and generations

The future of children growing up in poverty is bleak in many ways. Such children are at risk for poor health, low educational achievement, teen pregnancy and remaining impoverished as adults. ...

DATE: May 11, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Firestone blast: Governor Hickenlooper is right to demand maps from producers

The most expensive single purchase most people will ever make is a home. They deserve reasonable certainty that it is not going to explode in flames. Last month, in a new housing development in...

DATE: May 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

House Bill 1321 should not be a shock to hunters and anglers

Hunters and anglers who claim to be sideswiped by Colorado House Bill 1321 – a bill that would allow Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife Commission to hike the fees for resident hunting and fishing...

DATE: May 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

National monuments: preserving our nation’s historic, cultural and natural heritage for over 100 years.

President Donald Trump has asked Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review national monuments created using the Antiquities Act by presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama since Jan. 1, 1996. The review,...

DATE: May 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

President’s travel ban is discouraging far more tourists than terrorists

It should go without saying that any U.S. travel ban will reduce incoming travel. That, after all, is the point. But when the Trump administration moved, so far unsuccessfully, to restrict travel...

DATE: April 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Making the vaccine opt-out process even easier is unnecessary and puts kids at risk

The Colorado state senate will consider a bill that allows parents to use a letter rather than a form to opt out of immunizing their children against certain preventable diseases. Senate Bill 250,...

DATE: April 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

4CORE’s ‘group buy program’ a novel, affordable way to break gasoline habit

Common sense reminds us that when a deal sounds too good to be true, there’s probably a catch. But in the case of 4CORE’s “group buy program” for electric vehicles (EV), there might not be one....

DATE: April 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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