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As a state with several decades’ experience regulating gas and oil development in a complex jurisdictional landscape, Colorado is a national leader in many respects. The state has endured several...
DATE: Jan. 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Cortez Mayor Karen Sheek deserves the community’s thanks for standing up to Re-1 Superintendent Alex Carter. Carter keeps insisting the district never promised that the old high school building...
DATE: Jan. 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Colorado Legislature is considering – and should pass – a measure that would lift the state’s 10-year statute of limitations on filing sexual assault charges. Sexual assault victims who report...
DATE: Jan. 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
A week and a half has passed since the last big snowstorm, and many Cortez streets are still icy, rutted messes. Major traffic lanes have mostly cleared, but on side streets and near curbs, drivers...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
For the past couple weeks, standard rhetoric about the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge has included the theme that if the occupiers were not white, the occupation already have been...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Montezuma County commissioners are investigating ways to pay less for publishing legal notices. At first, that sounds laudable. Seeking ways to minimize government expenses is always a good...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The United States is a country increasingly steeped in gun culture. Ranging from the philosophical to the horrific, the ramifications of a society whose identity is shaped by the fundamental right...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The governing board overseeing Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association released a report in December outlining its progress toward ensuring that PERA becomes fully funded. In it, the...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Growth and change was a major theme in Montezuma County in 2015 – a theme that sometimes came with a big “but.” Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 opened its new high school, a beautiful,...
DATE: Dec. 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
With an extraordinary understanding among some 180 nations meeting in Paris that humanity can play a role in limiting the increase in global temperatures, there will be much talk about how to drive...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration announced new rules on drones. It is an understandable move but one that has the feel of a scramble to keep up with a phenomenon out of control. And with...
DATE: Dec. 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Surrounding the mortgage-driven economic collapse of 2008, the Federal Reserve loaned banks billions of dollars to provide the liquidity needed to keep afloat and to make lending possible. After...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Editorials
