Opinion

State officials may well be doing all that is needed to ensure the Red Arrow mine poses no risk to public health or that of its immediate neighbors. They may also be doing all they can. They need,...

Southwest Colorado has long been known by those who live here — or seek to — as a region with a shortage of primary medical care options. Various individuals and entities have attempted to rectify...

As Congress hurled the United States toward a government shutdown, talk of just what that means eclipsed the chatter that would otherwise have dominated such a beautiful fall weekend. Conversations...

Southwest Coloradans are showing themselves to have ties to those in the communities in northern Colorado who are suffering from the extraordinary destruction that accompanied recent heavy rains....

Among the tenets of the Affordable Care Act is the notion that basic preventive health care be covered by virtually all insurance policies, including employer-sponsored plans. That notion, when...

Like many others who live in the mountain West, Southwest Colorado residents surely have been horrified by photos and video of flooding on the northern Front Range. The floodwaters have destroyed...

A popular bumper sticker suggests, “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force needs to hold a bake sale to buy bombers.” The first half, at least, would...

Backers of a ballot issue to tax recreational marijuana clearly know something about addiction. For while marijuana itself is not addictive, tax revenue certainly is. And if they can get the state...

Reeves Brown got it right. Brown, executive director of the state’s Department of Local Affairs, was in Durango last week meeting with La Plata County commissioners and city of Durango officials....

While the civilized world debates, as it should, what to do about Syria, an additional debate is taking place in the United States: Who should decide? Put another way, who is going to own this...

Several counties in the northeastern corner of the state, along with Moffat County in the northwestern corner, want to secede from Colorado. They make take the first step in November by voting to...