“For a community, rapid growth is easy. Bolstered by state and federal funding… municipal bond debt financing… tax incentives and deferrals… towns that want to induce new development have many means of doing so…”
DEVIL MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: Killer Bees
They returned with an arsenal: pump spray tanks, gasoline, overalls, goggles, bandanas, helmets, gloves, duct tape, and of course, a 500,000 BTU portable propane torch kit….
Five Education Issues for the 2020 Legislative Session
Todd said improving Colorado’s teacher preparation programs is a top priority for her this year, her last in the state legislature….
EDITORIAL: The Growth ‘Ponzi Scheme’, Part Thirteen
Clearly, socialism is not cheap, when governments feel justified about putting citizens deeply in debt without their approval…
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Of Tourism
Tourism has been an integral part of Florida’s economy, for good and ill, since… well, since Ponce De Leon came ashore in 1513…
OPINION: How Long, Oh Lord?
How much more time do we need? How much more time do we have?
National Forests Plans Pile Burns Along Fosset Gulch Road
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…