Category: Opinion

Here in New Mexico, our growing season has lengthened since the 1970s, even as stream flows have decreased. Fire season … Continue ReadingOpinion: Drought, heat waves and fires come to New Mexico with the warming climate

Subsidize something and you’ll get more of it. Tax it and you’ll get less. That’s Economics 101. It’s not surprising … Continue ReadingOpinion: Shockingly, free school lunch isn’t really free. Colorado could ask voters to foot the bill.

Data centers have come out of seemingly nowhere to potentially reconfigure the landscape of electricity generation in Colorado and many … Continue ReadingOpinion: Colorado needs good data center policy. Discount electricity is not it.

By now readers are well aware of the $1.2 billion budget hole state lawmakers are urgently trying to fill. As … Continue ReadingOpinion: Don’t raid Coloradans’ unclaimed property to patch up the state’s broken budget

Strength, dominance, leadership, physicality — traits long celebrated in men’s sports are often challenged in women’s sports. For centuries, women … Continue ReadingOpinion: Female athletes deserve to be championed, not challenged, for their strength

It is simply appalling that our government has failed to use fundamental financial control practices in the administration of its … Continue ReadingOpinion: Americans should be outraged by the opportunities for waste, fraud and abuse being uncovered

For those of us living in a land-locked state like Colorado, it might be easy to assume that an agency … Continue ReadingOpinion: Elon Musk’s threats to NOAA are a threat to Colorado’s future

Newton’s third law of motion — for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction — applies as much … Continue ReadingOpinion: Don’t tip the scales in Colorado to big unions or to big business in this labor fight

No one knows for sure how America’s economy will react to a drastic pullback on spending and employment because it … Continue ReadingEditorial: Reckless federal cuts will hurt Colorado — layoffs and empty offices — lawmakers need a plan

On Feb. 28, people across the U.S. participated in a 24 hour economic blackout to protest President Donald Trump’s executive … Continue ReadingOpinion: Our boycott of Big Business could help reverse the worst Trump policies