Opinion

Clean Power Plan

Gov. John Hickenlooper is at odds with the Attorney General Cynthia Coffman over her adding Colorado to a list of states suing the Environmental Protection Agency to block the implementation of the...

DATE: Oct. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Yes on 5A, BB

The Montezuma County Hospital District is asking voters to approve a sales and use tax to help pay for a new wing and renovations to Southwest Memorial Hospital. The tax measure will only pay part...

DATE: Oct. 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

LWCF

For more than 50 years, the Land and Water Conservation Fund was one of the United States’ bedrock programs articulating a commitment to investing in “outdoor-recreation resources” that strengthen...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Energy costs

Social Security recipients normally receive an upward annual cost-of-living adjustment. Since 1975, except for 2010 and 2011, inflation has triggered an annual adjustment, even if modest. But not...

DATE: Oct. 19, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Gas & oil rules

When Gov. John Hickenlooper appointed a task force to craft recommendations for addressing the conflict between state and local rules governing gas and oil development in the state, he was careful...

DATE: Oct. 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Keep pot funds

The country lost Yogi Berra a couple of weeks ago, otherwise he would have had something to say about question BB on this fall’s ballot, the only statewide issue. Colorado voters have seen it...

DATE: Oct. 12, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

‘Yes’ to 5A

The Montezuma County Hospital District is asking voters to approve a sales and use tax to help pay for a new wing and renovations to Southwest Memorial Hospital. The tax measure will only pay part...

DATE: Oct. 8, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Master lease plan

The Bureau of Land Management was handed a new tool in 2010 that enables the agency to consider the impacts of gas and oil leasing across a landscape. This innovation was a major step for the BLM,...

DATE: Oct. 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Sage grouse

When the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service raises the specter of listing a species as threatened or endangered, it gets a lot of attention. Such designations carry with them implications for how...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Negative factor

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday against a group of parents that had argued in a lawsuit that the Legislature’s use of the “negative factor” to cut school funding violated the voters’ wishes...

DATE: Sept. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Kids and parks

In the lead-up to the centennial of the National Park Service, the federal lands agencies and the White House have teamed up to offer every fourth-grader in the nation, plus that child’s family and...

DATE: Sept. 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Right to Die

California’s Assembly has greatly advanced the availability of right-to-die provisions with its approval last week of a bill that will allow the terminally ill to receive a doctor-approved...

DATE: Sept. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials

click here to add your event
Area Events
Directory Plus

Search Directory Plus

Find:
Where: