Author: JOEY BUNCH [email protected]
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INSIGHTS | Stimulus, stimulus everywhere and just a drop for the Water Plan
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you depend on water in this state — wait for it — then you should be a little disappointed in how economic relief was divvied up during the last legislative session. A lot of good causes got much-needed, long-awaited money, but not all Colorado’s…
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INSIGHTS | Landing the All-Star Game was a home run for Polis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save You can say about Jared Polis on a lot. Trust me, I have. The one thing you must say is he’s Colorado’s best baseball governor, just as it’s hard to deny John Hickenlooper was the best beer governor. Bill Owens is the best governor. He…
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INSIGHTS | Spending on Colorado green energy has an opaque destination
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save At the end of the legislative session each year, a lot flushes out of the four-month session in a deluge. A massive blank check of trust is among this year’s gush: $40 million for, uh, some stuff related to green energy. For what? Senate Bill…
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Colorado River Towns | Estes Park and the Big Thompson are bound by the flow of history
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Editor’s note: An occasional series on the Colorado towns that live off the lifeblood of the state’s rivers. Most people know Estes Park as the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, but the small town and its rivers have attracted tourists for decades. (Video by…
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INSIGHTS | Polis questions how fast is too fast on averting climate change
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Jared Polis gets it. He has all along, it seems, on climate change: a hard charge must be tempered with reason. The governor is usually two steps ahead of the game on these thing. His agenda has moved the climate debate in Colorado to the…
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Biden’s public lands plan runs through Colorado, past and future
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save President Joe Biden’s plan to conserve 30% of the nation’s public lands and waters by 2030 has a distinct Colorado brand, and not just because 43% of its acreage is publicly owned. The goal is accompanied by a report from the National Climate Task Force…
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INSIGHTS | Amendments Y and Z put an exclamation mark on trust
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The residents of Colorado did their part just by being here. Voters did their part two years ago when they passed amendments Y and Z. Now the two independent commissions are charged with turning data into democracy by drawing new political districts for Congress and…
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INSIGHTS | Wild horses can’t be broken as a looming Western crisis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The galloping pony with its mane flowing like a banner in the prairie wind is the enduring expression of the unbridled American West. If not for its flaming eyes and garish color, the rearing mustang outside Denver International Airport would be the unofficial ambassador to…
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INSIGHTS | Wild horses can’t be broken as a looming Western crisis
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The galloping pony with its mane flowing like a banner in the prairie wind is the enduring expression of the unbridled American West. If not for its flaming eyes and garish color, the rearing mustang outside Denver International Airport would be the unofficial ambassador to…
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CDOT responds to estimates on traffic and air pollution in transit report
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A calculation on how much new lanes of interstate add in cars and gas use quickly got jammed again after the costly expansion didn’t add up to state highway director Shoshana Lew. The Rocky Mountain…