Colorado’s recent three largest wildfires’ impact on watersheds and more than five million Coloradans living in drought elevates the importance of resilient water resources — for people and birds…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Concerns About Bank of America
Thomas Jefferson said “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies”…
HMPRESENTLY: What ‘Good’ Is It, Actually?
Just the word, itself, of course, means something is good. Maybe really, tremendously, fantastically good…
LETTER: The Nation Needs Accountable Voting
I’m proud that Colorado makes use of hand-marked paper ballots, and I support a national requirement for 100% hand-marked, hand-counted, verifiable elections…
OPINION: The Dollars and Cents of America’s Wild Horses
What is the real value of an American wild horse?
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part Two
“Buyers are hungry and looking for something to buy with not much left on the shelves. There’s a lot of pent-up demand….”
ESSAY: Celebrating the Nation’s Remaining Wetlands
The US Fish and Wildlife’s National Wetlands Inventory determined that between the 1780s and 1980s, the ‘lower 48’ of the United States saw a net loss of about 53% of its total wetlands…
READY, AIM, FIRE: Less Than Zero
Try as we might, we cannot see ‘nothing’. Everything around us seems to be… ‘something’…
OPINION: National and Human Security
Finally, they pepper spray the handcuffed child. Her screaming intensifies…
Conflicting CDC Studies About COVID in Schools
The latest estimates suggest that about 60% of American students have access to in-person instruction of some sort — the highest figure since November…
FIELD NOTES: Is Ice Fishing the Perfect COVID-19 Sport?
“That’s one thing I’ve noticed, everywhere I’ve gone in the state, is that there’s so many people ice fishing now, because it’s so simple…”
EDITORIAL: Town Government as Housing Provider, Part One
We can easily understand how physically uncomfortable an individual or family might feel, living in a car — a vehicle that serves as their living room, kitchen and bedroom…
OPINION: Our Schools Were Becoming Remote, Before the Pandemic
…The built environment does everything it can to isolate Scotts Ridge and its students from town…
REAL ESTATE: The Riley Report
So what does the future look like? I just pulled out my crystal ball and it’s telling me sales will be strong for the first part of the year…
LETTER: Protecting Our Human Rights From Government Overreach
To strengthen the Hippocratic oath, the Nuremberg Code was created to protect individual human rights and dignity in connection with medical care and development of medicine and its associated practices…
Tracking Colorado Wolves with GPS
“The GPS collar will allow our biologists and wildlife managers to learn more about the travel patterns of wolves that are coming into the state…”
EDITORIAL: When Automobiles Ruled the Earth, Part Seven
“On average, Americans drive 29.2 miles per day, making two trips with an average total duration of 46 minutes…”
Local Author Carole Howard Publishes Sixth Edition of Media Textbook
Sales show that “On Deadline” is the foremost textbook on media relations in the academic, corporate, nonprofit and government sectors…
READY, AIM, FIRE: Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend
Like love, diamonds were once thought to be rare. Then a couple of Dutch farmers named De Beers found more diamonds than they knew what to do with…