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Kudos to Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 for asking the public what should be done with the old high school building. Now the public needs to apply a healthy dose of realism to the...
DATE: March 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a proposed lawsuit by which Nebraska and Oklahoma had hoped to challenge Colorado’s legalization of marijuana. The vote was 6-2, with Justices...
DATE: March 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Colorado Legislature has once again turned its attention to the touchy subject of sexting, the practice of sending nude or sexually suggestive photos of oneself via text messages. The problem...
DATE: March 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The best advocates for an issue have lived it. That was true for Jim Isgar, who grew up on the family farm and ranch south of Durango where water was either nonexistent or at best scarce. That...
DATE: March 14, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado voters in 2006 ensconced expectations about lawmakers’ ethics into the state constitution, banning them from accepting gifts and jumping immediately from public office into a lobbying role...
DATE: March 10, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado voters deserve better than the current caucus system. Democracy is predicated on a broad level of participation, while caucuses are entirely geared toward emphasizing the clout of a small...
DATE: March 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Water rights in Colorado are a unique animal that can conjure a range of emotions, ideologies and policy fights – all of which emanate from the state’s central water-related premises: It is in...
DATE: March 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Democracy is a messy affair, beginning with Tuesday’s party precinct caucuses in Colorado and other states. “Party” is key. Caucuses allow neighbors of the same general political persuasion to...
DATE: March 1, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Colorado Open Records Act clearly outlines citizens’ right to access public files created and held by government agencies. However, the law’s language does not presently articulate that those...
DATE: Feb. 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, took office in January 2015 and has since been steadily transitioning from the regional focus appropriate to his former role as a U.S. representative for Colorado’s...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Southwest Colorado is no stranger to gas and oil development, and over the past several decades, residents, local decision-makers, landowners, conservationists, recreationists, land managers and...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There are many cultural, religious and medical, familial and psychological taboos surrounding death – particularly at one’s own hand – and for good reason. Humans are born with an inherent drive to...
DATE: Feb. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
