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This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments about the constitutionality of the Obama administrations 2010 health care reform plan.Thats all. The court wont rule on whether its a good...
DATE: March 27, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Cortez City Council election is Tuesday, April 3. Voters who have signed up for permanent mail-in ballots should have received them this week; the rest will have to visit their polling place to...
DATE: March 24, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Positive reports about budgets, from the individual to the federal level and everywhere in between, have been hard to come by in recent years, so a forecast that Colorado will have more money in...
DATE: March 22, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Fracking can pollute the air around natural gas well sites, a three-year study in Garfield County has shown.Almost immediately after a news report on the study was posted on the front page of the...
DATE: March 20, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Four States Agricultural Exposition organizers couldnt have asked for better weather for their event, at least for its first days. Sunny days with highs in the 60s and a breeze rather than a...
DATE: March 17, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Each year, lawmakers in Colorado have the unenviable but unavoidable task of producing the next years budget . In recent cycles the effort has been growing pronouncedly less fun. As revenues...
DATE: March 15, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
As a sure sign that spring is near, gas prices are going up. The rise shouldnt surprise anyone, for two reasons: This happens every year, and none of the upward price pressures have...
DATE: March 13, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
The Cortez city council is considering an ordinance to limit the number of medical marijuana dispensaries in Cortez and institute licensing requirements for them. The proposal has come out of an ad...
DATE: March 10, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
There are many good arguments to be made for legislation protection of groups that are traditionally ostracized however discretely or insidiously in settings such as hiring, housing or business...
DATE: March 8, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Two odd insults have been in the news recently, both of them from the right because, at least at a national level, liberals currently have the luxury of sitting back to watch the circus. The slurs...
DATE: March 6, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Democrats in the state Senate have suggested that the state create a mobile phone application to help shoppers identify locally owned businesses, who would pay a $10 annual fee to be listed.Its a...
DATE: March 3, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
One of the few things that politicians from both parties can agree on these days is that the U.S. tax code is an overly complicated set of rules that allow for less-than-ideal behavior among...
DATE: March 1, 2012 | CATEGORY: Editorials
