Opinion

The people in charge of managing firefighting for big wildfires in Colorado’s forests often declare them “contained and controlled” but then add that they’ll be burning until the snow falls....

The Journal agrees that higher gas prices in Cortez — a fact of life for many years — are unfortunate. They amount to a surcharge for living here. Most communities have those quirky costs. For...

Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler is absolutely correct in his assessment that campaign finance reform in the state is not working well. In fact, as he put it, the effort to control money...

Setting aside the stridency and presumptuousness of his tone, Grover Norquist’s position on tax increases have for far too long been out of sync with the reality facing the U.S. economy with...

Encouraged by generous Black Friday spending, the analysts who watch numbers like holiday spending suggest that the extra week between Thanksgiving and Christmas this year will create a boon for...

First there was Black Friday, then came Cyber Monday - both with the goal of kicking off the Christmas shopping season. Now, though, there is a season-opening shopping promotion with a healthier...

The United States has just completed — although perhaps not yet closed — a bruising political season during which otherwise decent people attempted to convince voters that the world as they know it...

Perhaps the most frequently asked question in the scandal centered on David Petraeus is how anyone so accomplished and so widely regarded as brilliant could have exercised such poor judgment. More...

Vernal, Utah — an oil town in the middle of a drab (although geologically and paleontologically fascinating) desert — has a decorating theme. From one end of Main Street to the other, from May...

On Nov. 6, Colorado voters gave their blessing to make recreational use of marijuana legal in the state. With the historic vote, though, comes no small amount of regulatory housekeeping — to say...

Coloradans, who were in a passing mood this year, passed Amendment 65, which calls on Colorado’s congressional delegation to support campaign finance limits. The impetus was clear: rich “people”...