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Dear Editor:On Dec. 13, a Journal article reported the outcome of a lawsuit which claimed that Colorado is in violation of its constitutional obligation to provide public education.I was struck by...
DATE: Jan. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As the Colorado Legislature convenes tomorrow, lawmakers will once again be asked to approve a package of legal rights known as civil unions. This is a hot-button issue because civil unions award...
DATE: Jan. 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Some tragedies are simply accidents. Some are the result of a single decision; others have been made nearly inevitable by many years of choices and circumstances.Regardless of the history, the...
DATE: Jan. 7, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
When former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter decided to forgo a run for a second term, it was not for lack of cash in his campaign coffers. In the time since he left office last January, then, Ritter has...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Americans claim, overwhelmingly, to value civility in politics.According to the Arizona Republic, Eighty percent of Americans surveyed believe that political campaigns are uncivil and many believe...
DATE: Jan. 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
If 2011 had a theme, it was this: The more things change, the more they stay the same. GOVERNMENT AND POLITICSLocal communities rallied to support their post offices, which have since received a...
DATE: Dec. 31, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
For more than 20 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has been acutely aware of the damage that mercury pollution wreaks on public health and the environment, and has been busily limiting...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
It is only 5 p.m., but it feels like I should be getting ready for bed. I am supposed to go to sleep when it gets dark out, right? That is how it goes in the summer when the last light hangs in the...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Just in time for Christmas shopping, the online giant Amazon.com launched, and heavily promoted, a new comparison-shopping app.Sounds good, right?Using their mobile phones and Amazons software,...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, returned [Scrooges] nephew. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Republicans in control of the House of Representatives outdid themselves this week. In a politically tone-deaf trifecta, they refused to extend the payroll tax cut, agreed to allow unemployment...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2011 | CATEGORY: Editorials
