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The State of the Union speech is the venue in which U.S. presidents articulate their agendas for the coming year, and in his Tuesday evening address to Congress, President Barack Obama kept with...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As Coloradans watch the parade of GOP presidential favorites du jour and await their turn to weigh in, now might be the time to ponder why each has risen and fallen. More to the point, it might be...
DATE: Jan. 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In crafting its 2012 Building Excellent Schools Today grant proposal, the Re-1 administration and board must design a plan that will be convincing both to the granting agency and to local voters,...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Two proposed laws meant to combat Internet piracy sparked online protests Wednesday as Google sported a large black bar on its website and Wikipedia went dark for the day. And with that,...
DATE: Jan. 19, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Few ideas garner less support in this country than the suggestion that immigration enforcement should be relaxed.And few ideas garner less support than the suggestion that the federal government...
DATE: Jan. 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Montezuma Countys two commissioner races are shaping up in a way that will offer substantive choices to voters at least if theyre Republicans. So far it appears that commission election will be...
DATE: Jan. 14, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It is becoming about as predictable as sunrise, death and taxes to have a proposed environmental regulation met with arguments about how the rule will wreak havoc on real or potential jobs,...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Dear Editor:On Dec. 13, a Journal article reported the outcome of a lawsuit which claimed that Colorado is in violation of its constitutional obligation to provide public education.I was struck by...
DATE: Jan. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As the Colorado Legislature convenes tomorrow, lawmakers will once again be asked to approve a package of legal rights known as civil unions. This is a hot-button issue because civil unions award...
DATE: Jan. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Some tragedies are simply accidents. Some are the result of a single decision; others have been made nearly inevitable by many years of choices and circumstances.Regardless of the history, the...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter decided to forgo a run for a second term, it was not for lack of cash in his campaign coffers. In the time since he left office last January, then, Ritter has...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Americans claim, overwhelmingly, to value civility in politics.According to the Arizona Republic, Eighty percent of Americans surveyed believe that political campaigns are uncivil and many believe...
DATE: Jan. 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
