Opinion

The world watched the gyrations of the stock market last week with the fascination normally reserved for car crashes. Then the Iowa straw poll picked Michele Bachmann as the front runner for the...

For most of the summer, political rhetoric has been focused on the economy. The word “recession” is back in common usage.Various plans for reducing the national debt have analyzed based on their...

With Congress having plum exhausted itself with the debt-deficit discussions that kept lawmakers squabbling right up until the Aug. 2 deadline for raising the country’s debt ceiling, it is no...

Suppose a local public body voted by a close margin to do something controversial — for example, to award a large no-bid contract, or to grant a large tax abatement to a new industry that would...

Today, beginning at 3 p.m.. is the livestock auction at the fair. Young people have put months of planning and hard work into raising market animals. They’ve got their ribbons, so they know how...

When it comes to the amendments that limit lawmakers’ ability to govern as they ought to be empowered, Colorado’s constitution is a case study in dysfunction. Competing clauses have been added...

Congress and the president have a debt deal. It’s not a perfect plan, but it’s better than nothing, better than a default, better than a constitutional crisis. Nobody is completely satisfied, and...

When vehicles and pedestrians share the same space, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Distractions abound, especially in downtown Cortez, with four packed traffic lanes and a turn lane, and with...

Missing from the political theater passing as debate over raising the federal debt limit is any sort of specificity as to what spending cuts are being proposed. This reflects several factors, chief...

Negotiations about the federal debt limit loom large in the foreground of U.S. politics. The next big event on the horizon is the series of Republican presidential primaries, leading up to the 2012...

A majority of Re-1 taxpayers won’t vote for a tax increase to fund construction of new school buildings, according to a poll conducted for the Cortez school district.Hardly anyone should be...