Opinion

Sunday, a fast-moving lightning-strike fire in Arizona killed 19 firefighters — some of them in their fire shelters, and some just outside. Last month, two residents died when their home burned in...

The Colorado Legislature passed a comprehensive education finance overhaul measure in its 2013 session, realigning for the better several critical components of how schools are funded and, more...

The factors that contribute to fire risk across the national forest system are neither easy nor cheap to address. Drought, vulnerabilities because of beetle infestation, increased human populations...

At first glance, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision regarding an Arizona law requiring voters to give proof of citizenship when registering to vote is a victory for those pushing for increased voter...

Most Americans have probably long (and correctly) assumed that the federal government knew whom they called and what they read and said on the Internet. Communication providers collected that data;...

President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address took him into bold new territory with respect to his commitment to countering climate change. He was, for the first time, unequivocal in calling...

Southwest Colorado, in the season between the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends, can seem like a different country. Traffic is noticeably worse, both because the roads are busier and because more...

Competing values will drive the decision on where (and whether) to build a new Cortez city hall. The building currently housing most of the city offices is crowded and convoluted. Unlike the City...

Critics of President Barack Obama have long sought a scandal with which to tar his administration and with revelations of the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups they have a...

While the Affordable Health Care Act, which will begin to be implemented at the beginning of 2014, is producing plenty of criticism about what is known and unknown about its mandated insurance...

Celebratory days and weeks abound in this country, with some of them initiated and supported by corporate interests. Hallmark works hard to sell greeting cards for something such as "Grandparents'...