Editorials

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A billion here and a billion there ...

The big news late last week was that a group of Democratic senators, aided by a few Republicans, cut the bloated economic stimulus bill from $930 billion to $827 billion. Whew! What a relief! Of course, students of ancient history — ...

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Bridging history is costly

Officials in Fruita are discovering that the cost of historic preservation can be much greater than anticipated. That appears to be occurring with an old one-lane bridge across the Colorado River at Fruita, which people in that city have been ...

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Octuplet investigation

We note with approval that the Medical Board of California has announced it is investigating whether a fertility clinic that helped a woman give birth to octuplets last month committed any violation of state regulations. Most people by now ...

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Highways versus land preservation

Say this much for Colorado’s House Minority Leader Mike May and state Sen. Ted Harvey: They are looking well beyond the conventional methods of obtaining funding for highways. Trouble is, the proposal they unveiled last week would ...

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King’s bill gets drilled

We’re not at all unhappy to record the death of Rep. Steve King’s bill that would have required every public school in Colorado — from kindergarten through college — to hold emergency drills at least twice a ...

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Bookcliff coal could be gold for economy

There’s much information yet to be gathered and evaluated regarding a proposed new coal mine planned for the Bookcliffs north of Mack. But the prospect of a new business that could create more than 200 jobs for its own operations and at ...

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Stimulate or stall

Although both are controlled by Democrats, Congress and the Colorado Legislature are working at cross purposes when it comes to stimulating the economy. Just this week, for example, the U.S. Senate passed a measure aimed at aiding the ...

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Salazar signals a change

It should come as no great surprise that new Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar acted this week to put the brakes on the pell-mell rush of natural gas leasing on public lands that was instituted under the Bush administration. As a U.S. ...

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A tasty decision

At least one liquor store in unincorporated Mesa County will soon be offering wine samples to its customers, thanks to a decision made this week by the Mesa County Commissioners. We expect other liquor retailers will follow suit before ...

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Cabinet ethics

And you thought Hillary Clinton was going to be the troublesome Cabinet nominee. Tom Daschle’s personal resumé of the past few years includes exactly the sort of activity President Barack Obama said he wants to exorcise from the ...

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