Author: RACHAEL WRIGHT Special to The Gazette
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Coal to nuclear? Western Slope advocates say it could be ‘a plug and play’
Family picnics in the 1940s and 1950s in western Colorado might have resulted in more than ants marching over a worn checkered tablecloth. On the arid sandstone outcrops, in fine grains and veinlets, in greenish-yellow or a sooty black, lay the United States’ hope for Cold War dominance: uranium. Seventy-five years on, some Coloradans still…
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Western Slope farmers fear impact of mass deportations and labor market changes
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PALISADE • To be a farmer in any era is to live, unsteadily, with constant change. On rural Colorado’s small family farms one thing is certain: the landscape of agriculture is shifting. And the tenuous balance is in for a new test as promises of mass…