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There are efforts across the country to push the envelope in what requirements voters face before being allowed to cast a ballot in the upcoming election. The laws range in their scope, but some...
DATE: Sept. 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler said Wednesday that backers of the so-called personhood amendment did not submit the required number of signatures to put their measure on the November...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Few people, among a population of 7 billion, ever have an opportunity to be the first human being to set foot in a new world. Brave, humble Neil Armstrong was the right person to take that...
DATE: Aug. 28, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 is asking voters to approve a mill levy for approximately $21 million half the cost of a new high school, with the rest funded by a BEST (Building Excellent...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions took its business on the road this week when it held a hearing in Denver on a bill to help guarantee the continuation of tuition...
DATE: Aug. 23, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Todd Akin, a Republican seeking to unseat Missouris U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, is now famous for implying, on television, that women who say they become pregnant from being raped actually may...
DATE: Aug. 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As Election Day approaches, the tension between making voting more accessible and ensuring that only those people entitled to vote do so will likely escalate with the two poles divided along party...
DATE: Aug. 16, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Anyone who has anxiously awaited a medical diagnosis can attest that not knowing is a particular kind of hell. Once the test results are in, decisions, plans and preparations can begin, but until...
DATE: Aug. 13, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Four Corners Power Plant, located on the Navajo Nation just outside Farmington, is a notorious polluter. The coal-fired facility is among the oldest and dirtiest power plants in the country and...
DATE: Aug. 11, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Colorado voters will likely be asked to decide on four ballot measures this November. That is less than some years, and thus less dangerous. But the fact that two of them got on the ballot by way...
DATE: Aug. 9, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Changing the subject of the neatest tricks of a political activist (which for todays purposes shall be construed to mean a person who works actively toward a political goal and therefore not...
DATE: Aug. 7, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The junior livestock auction at the fair begins at 3 p.m. today. Young people have put months of planning and hard work into raising market animals. Theyve got their ribbons, so they know how well...
DATE: Aug. 4, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
