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LETTER: Stakes Are Too High To Let Prop 115 Pass
As voters, we’ve already weighed in on this issue and have decided over and over again that the government shouldn’t play a role in these personal decisions…
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Seven
If your lucky family has a an annual income of $58,400… (and you didn’t lose your job during the COVID crisis)… and you happen to have $10,000 saved up for a down payment…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Four
As I write this in September 2020, the ‘demand management’ mechanism is still a somewhat vague idea. Perhaps even a pipe dream…
OPINION: Voting Advice from a Colorado Activist
In a recent Denver Post news story, I called this government-pervading phenomenon, “growthism”, and stated that “growthism is eviscerating the soul of the natural and cultural landscape of our state”…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Three
No one will tell us why a New York hedge fund, Water Asset Management, has bought up thousands of acres of irrigated agricultural land in the communities of Fruita, Loma and Mack, west of Grand Junction…
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Six
I read somewhere, long ago, that the Hindu god Shiva had a ‘dual’ personality — that he embodies both the power to destroy and the power to create…
LETTER: Cory Gardner, Trump’s Rubber Stamp
Cory Gardner may attempt to campaign as a moderate independent Republican; his voting record in lock-step confirmation of Trump’s cabinet members and judges places him clearly in Trump’s corner…
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Five
Some might say, the Board of County Commissioners is totally out of control, with regards to debt creation. And all of the new debt seems to be serving one group of people: County employees…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part Two
“The evidence currently of record does not demonstrate that the Districts have carried their burden of proving a non-speculative intent to put the water amounts contained in the remand decree to beneficial use…”
OPINION: Why My Faith Leads Me to Oppose Proposition 115
Proposition 115 is a deceptive end-around run by the same politicians and special interest groups that have repeatedly tried and failed to ban abortion more than 10 times in Colorado over the past decade…
OPINION: Proposition 115 Will Protect the Unborn
That is an opportunity for each one of us to make a vote for the precious gift of life for another person. To vote “Yes” on Proposition 115 for babies who have achieved 22 weeks of life in their mother’s womb…
EDITORIAL: Speculators Buying Up Colorado Water Rights? Part One
“I’m encouraged by the participation in the Work Group, which represents diverse stakeholders from all across the state,” said Dan Gibbs, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Natural Resources…”
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Four
The property at 574 S. 5th St (at the NE corner of Apache St. and S. 5th St.) is currently listed and could be a possible property for workforce housing units…
HMPRESENTLY: The Will of the People
A majority of Americans support Social Security, which various politicians seem so eager to abolish. The Pew Research Center reported, recently, that “74 percent of Americans say Social Security benefits should not be reduced in any way…”
OPINION: The End of ‘Climate Change’
Let’s face it. “Climate change” has outlived its usefulness; it’s time we hold funeral services for the phrase…
Answers to Your Voting Questions
County clerks automatically will begin mailing ballots to active registered voters on October 9. A voter is considered active if they’ve voted in the most recent general elections…
EDITORIAL: The Ruins of Prosperity, Part Three
Americans do indeed value property rights — in some situations. And the STR industry has certainly helped to bring about higher home prices in Archuleta County, according to everything I’ve heard from local realtors…
HMPRESENTLY: Flummoxed!
Reading Jared Kushner’s words in the media, the other day — he said that “controversy elevates message” — I was wondering if that’s really so, considering what the president himself, and others around him, have been saying, lately…