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When state legislators went home last Wednesday, one of the tasks they had left undone was the restructuring of a hospital provider fee that would have freed up money to bolster the state budget....
DATE: May 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The San Juan National Forest has released a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Rico-West Dolores Roads and Trails Management Plan. Forest users ought to take a look because the five...
DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Visitation at Mesa Verde National Park was up 8 percent last year. National park and national monument visitation increased in New Mexico, too, as it did across much of the West. The reasons are...
DATE: May 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It’s too bad the Montezuma County commissioners and the Montezuma Mosquito Control District board are not getting along, because mosquito-borne illnesses potentially are a serious threat to public...
DATE: May 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
This week, GOP presidential hopefuls Ted Cruz and John Kasich agreed, briefly, on a plan that might have helped deny frontrunner Donald Trump enough delegates to avoid a contested convention. The...
DATE: April 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A lot of money is invested in individual retirement accounts in this country, some $7 trillion – with a T – according to The Wall Street Journal, and sometimes the decisions which are made in...
DATE: April 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The U.S. Senate passed an energy bill on Wednesday that would spend $32 billion over five years to improve energy efficiency, invest in clean energy technology, capture harmful emissions from...
DATE: April 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The lack of transparency in health care delivery in the U.S. continues to cause confusion on many fronts, and in response to this, the Colorado Legislature is considering playing a role. The issue...
DATE: April 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Republicans on the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee did the right thing Monday in killing House Bill 1308, which would have made it illegal to fraudulently claim a pet as a service animal. The...
DATE: April 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When Gov. John Hickenlooper convened the Task Force on State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations in 2014, the intent was to improve the sometimes fraught relationship between local...
DATE: April 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In looking over a list of issues that occupied our state legislators last week, we were gratified to see there is another effort to make it easier for an illegal state resident to test for a...
DATE: April 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the best indicators of a woman’s upward mobility is the age at which she gives birth to her first child, and that advantage or disadvantage confers to her children as well. Teen parents are...
DATE: April 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
