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There were only a couple of certainties expressed at the recent annual water meeting: that boating on the Dolores is taking place in some of the coldest water in the state, and that more beer than...
DATE: April 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In Colorado, more than two-thirds of the students who graduate from college have substantial student-loan debt, averaging more than $30,000. At Fort Lewis, the total is somewhat lower, just over...
DATE: April 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado legislature’s budget decisions threaten to put the state’s small, rural hospitals at risk by pulling a funding source on which they depend. Paying for health care for individuals who have...
DATE: April 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
After initially banning all boating on Narraguinnep Reservoir, operators eased that ban to allow small, non-motorized craft, including canoes, kayaks, rafts, windsurfing boards, sailboards,...
DATE: April 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Many Colorado school districts have a growing problem attracting qualified teachers. A large number of teachers will be eligible to retire over the next few years, and others are leaving the...
DATE: April 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We have been here before. Six years ago, Republicans in Congress, led by Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs), introduced legislation to eliminate federal funding for the...
DATE: March 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Nominating justices to fill vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court is a president’s prerogative. It was Barack Obama’s prerogative to nominate Merrick Garland last year for the vacancy created by...
DATE: March 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
We all react differently to the “good news, bad news” scenario. Given a choice, which one do you prefer to hear first? On House Bill 1242, which was heard before the House Transportation and...
DATE: March 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
How much is enough? The question, when it comes to marijuana plants grown at home for medicinal use, elicits a range of answers from the reasonable to the ridiculous. And that is just one reason...
DATE: March 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The premise of Sunshine Week, the annual national celebration of access to public information taking place this week, is that citizens have the right to know what their government is doing. Jim...
DATE: March 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Congratulations to the City of Cortez on their new city hall south of the Cortez Recreation Center. Take a tour on Friday; you’ll be favorably impressed. This is a success story. The City has...
DATE: March 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A bill before the Legislature aims to enable undocumented immigrants to more easily apply for a Colorado driver’s license. It is a good idea that probably does not go far enough. House Bill 17-1206...
DATE: March 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Editorials
