Editorials

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Keep the BLM on track

The sessions held this month to discuss roads and trails on Bureau of Land Management property in this region were important for letting the federal agency know what people think should be done with trails management locally. But those who ...

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12th Street Market

The long-debated and previously rejected grocery-store complex planned for the corner of 12th Street and Patterson Road moved much closer to reality Wednesday. We think it’s high time. As we have long argued, the parcel of property on ...

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Budget wildfire may be contained in California

The Colorado Legislature faces difficult budget decisions over the next few weeks. It must slash an estimated $1 billion from state spending slated to occur over the next 17 months. But that’s nothing compared to California, where ...

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Paper tigers

We are nearing the end of the first decade of the 21st century, with technological changes coming furiously in just about every area of our lives. Yet the Election Reform Commission for the state of Colorado is clinging obsessively to 18th ...

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Speed bumps slow latest auto bailout

Chrysler and General Motors held their hands out for up to $21.6 billion in additional federal aid this week. But they found even some of their allies in Washington were unimpressed with the recovery plans they have put together. A spokesman ...

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Chance’s story belongs to all of us

Chance Phelps was a resident of the Grand Valley very briefly, spending only his senior year at Palisade High School. He spent more time in Craig, and more still in his hometown of Dubois, Wyo. But his death in Iraq in 2004 — a ...

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Bradford’s bill loses on two counts

We’re all for legally hammering sexual predators who prey on young children, as state Rep. Laura Bradford seeks to do with House Bill 1144. But Braford’s bill, which would require a minimum 20-year sentence for sex offenders who ...

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Stimulus signed, sealed.  Now can it deliver?

Along with the vast majority of Americans, we have our fingers crossed today, hoping the economic stimulus bill signed by President Barack Obama Tuesday in Denver will have the desired effect. There are reasons for both hope and skepticism. ...

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Gambling on new casino revenue

We are pleased to see that historic preservation advocates and representatives of the state’s community colleges managed to reach agreement last week on how revenue from last year’s Amendment 50 should be spent. We hope most of it ...

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Coyote consternation

A number of troublemakers have gotten residents of the Front Range upset, and some of them are looking to state and local governments to protect them. In response, many government officials are telling residents they must take measures to ...

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