These piles were generated from forest thinning projects to improve forest health, resiliency, and mitigate wildfire risk….
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Twelve
Without spectacular growth, local governments cannot afford to maintain the streets and parks and buildings they’ve built to serve the public’s needs and wants…
Mark Your Calendar for the 2020 Crane Festival
This year’s keynote speaker is Colorado-based historian and Theodore Roosevelt re-enactor Kurt Skinner, who whisks audiences of all ages back to a time when the former president imprinted on Americans a love of the natural world…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eleven
Main Street USA was inspired by Walt Disney’s hometown of Marceline, Missouri and it’s designed to resemble an idealized turn-of-the-20th-century (c. 1910) American town…
CHALKBEAT: Top Colorado Education Stories of 2019… and Looking Ahead
The dispute was not only about higher pay but also about widespread dissatisfaction with a merit pay system that advocates had hoped would transform the teaching profession…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Ten
The place I was most excited to visit, as an eight-year-old, was Tomorrowland…
LETTER: The Shadow War
Both Russia and China are aggressively jointly practicing a “high-low” strategy of hostility…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Nine
Of the fourteen ideas listed, more than half — eight of them, to be exact — reference “walking” or “recreation.” Our current Council seems wonderfully interested in increased pedestrian activity…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Eight
Mr. Simpson made a preliminary presentation to the Town Planning Commission on November 26, showing rough sketches of the proposed low-income town homes. The plan was praised by the Town Planning department…
Wolf Creek Ski Area Sees 30 Inches of Fresh Powder
Wolf Creek Ski Area is 100% open with all lifts operating from 8:30am to 4:00pm.
OPINION: A 21st Century Solution for American Morality
The United States can restore the trust that allows civil society to flourish by emphasizing the values that have long bound us together, and by adopting the newer values of shared power and racial equity…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Seven
“I realized that if the economic conversations taking place in parliaments, in boardrooms and in the media worldwide are going to change, then the fundamental economic ideas taught in schools and universities have to be transformed, too….”
OPINION: Health Care in 2019, the Year in Review
While the ACA remains the law of the land, the current administration continues to take executive actions that erode coverage and other gains…
Advocacy Groups Celebrate Key Step Towards Climate Goals, Cleaner Air
“Since air knows no political boundaries, any source of air pollution in Colorado is of concern to all citizens who want their families to breathe clean air….”
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Six
I suppose the Christmas season can seem like a treadmill to some people… trying to find and afford appropriate gifts for family and friends… often going into debt in the effort to show how much we care…
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Five
A key word here is “resilient.” Able to weather a storm. Durable. Stronger and longer-laster than some of the roads and buildings and infrastructure built here in Archuleta County over the past 40 years…
ESSAY: Oh, Come Let Us Adore Him
This Christ-child was both God and man. He wasn’t an angel-spirit. And he lived a human’s life in the flesh and blood…
OPINION: Americans Support a Non-Nuclear Future
In February 2019, when the Chicago Council surveyed Americans about US withdrawal from the INF Treaty, 54 percent opposed the action…