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A few years ago, a pickup sat at the intersection of Highways 145 and 184 south of Dolores for months. The pickup was covered with signs criticizing a federal public lands official. The signs were...
DATE: May 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Starbucks’ chief executive treads where other corporation leaders fear to go. A couple of years ago, Howard Schultz voiced his frustration with the way politicians were acting by challenging other...
DATE: April 27, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Thanks to an economy that both is growing and expanding to include new revenue sources for the state – namely recreational marijuana – Colorado’s chronically tight budget is feeling some reprieve...
DATE: April 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Rep. Don Coram, R-Montrose, has made it a bit of a crusade to reduce teen pregnancy rates in Colorado and has a common-sense means of doing so: state funding for long-acting reversible...
DATE: April 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A century ago, in 1915, the Colorado Legislature wrote into the state’s first workers’ compensation law a provision that says any information employers provided “shall not be open to the public.”...
DATE: April 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There is ample reason for the United States to doubt Iran’s sincerity in adhering to a nuclear arms agreement. Iran also has ample reason to doubt our sincerity, given the letter it recently...
DATE: April 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
All but lost among the grandstanding and noise of congressional politics are some nuggets of good work. The ACE Kids Act, backed by Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, appears to be one such example. The...
DATE: April 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In a brief filed Friday with the United States Supreme Court, Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman responded to lawsuits from Nebraska and Oklahoma over Colorado’s marijuana laws. The Supreme...
DATE: April 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Utah’s governor has signed a law approving the use of a firing squad as an alternative to lethal injection in executing prisoners. The bill, with his signature, makes Utah the only state in which...
DATE: March 31, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
For veterans in need of medical care, 40 miles now means 40 road miles, not magical leaps over mountain peaks. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced earlier this week that it will alter its...
DATE: March 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Transparency in publicly supported workplaces is not something that is always easy to practice. When issues are unusually contentious, and when there are indications of poor judgment and signs of...
DATE: March 23, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Michael Bennet and Cory Gardner are asking the U.S. Senate to accept responsibility for otherwise irresponsible behavior. It is a brilliant display of common sense that should not go unnoticed. The...
DATE: March 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials