Opinion

Earthquakes followed by tsunamis followed by nuclear disasters will require decades of cleanup, and the affected area may not be inhabitable in the foreseeable future.Widespread flooding has...

Anyone who has relocated to a small community knows that figuring out who’s who and what’s what is no quick task. The Southern Poverty Law Center writers who came to Southwest Colorado to write...

To convince Colorado taxpayers to dig deeper into their pockets at this moment in the economy and against the current political mood requires both an appealing public need and well-considered...

Coloradans who have neglected to pay their state taxes may have an opportunity to come clean this fall thanks to a bill that would waive penalties for those who pay in full between Oct. 1 and Nov....

Speaker of the House John Boehner gave a talk Monday to the New York Economic Club in which he outlined his demands for agreeing to raising the federal deficit limit. It was good theater and...

Last week, two separate sets of employment data were released. One showed that the U.S. economy had added 244,000 jobs in April. The other reported that the unemployment rate had increased from 8.8...

In declining to reduce photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, President Barack Obama told the nation, “That’s not who we are.”“We don’t trot this stuff out as trophies,” he said. “We don’t need to...

Cortez voters, in rejecting the recall of five city council members, made the right choice among those they were offered.A recall election is always an uphill struggle, even when the targets are...

The New York Times called him “the most wanted face of terrorism.” For almost 10 years, that has been true. Islamic militants saw Osama bin Laden as a symbol of their cause, his ability to elude...

The public comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed plan to clean up the Four Corners Power Plant ends Monday. Fans of clean air should make their opinions known....

Like most states, Colorado’s K-12 education system is in a perpetual state of evaluation and adjustment. That reality results from a range of pressures from all directions: federal mandates...