EPA, Superfund
Agency proposes listing for Bonita Peak, setting the course for action
DATE: Apr 9, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Clean air: State Senate’s partisan grandstanding based soley on opposition to Obama
The flap in the Colorado Senate over funding for implementing aspects of the Clean Power Plan can be explained in one word: Obama. The state of American politics – and worse, governance – ha...
DATE: Apr 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Industry should notify local governments of planned wells
When Gov. John Hickenlooper convened the Task Force on State and Local Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations in 2014, the intent was to improve the sometimes fraught relationship between loca...
DATE: Apr 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Misnamed laws protect only ability of hateful to discriminate
Tuesday, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed into law a bill with the Orwellian title “Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Government Discrimination Act.” It is the most egregious of a ser...
DATE: Apr 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Sewage lagoon: Lightner Creek park, state disturbingly blasé about leakage
For the monthly space rental fee that residents of the Lightner Creek Mobile Home Park pay, they should be assured that the waste materials that flow through each home’s pipes are properly t...
DATE: Apr 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
In the Capitol
Lawmakers right on driver’s licenses, but maybe not online gaming, service-animals
DATE: Apr 3, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Mayor earned a celebration
Members of the Herald’s editorial board were not among the 100 invited to Mayor Dean Brookie’s ball at his house Friday evening, but that doesn’t mean we find fault with it.
On th...
DATE: Apr 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Rain barrels headed for Hickenlooper’s desk
Senate finally clears path to legality for sensible practice
DATE: Apr 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
La Plata, Montezuma dropout rates reiterate challenges
Options expand when childbirth delayed, school prolonged
DATE: Mar 31, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Senate Bill 160 seeks to undermine, not clarify Colorado’s land management practices
SB 160 seeks to undermine, not clarify, Colorado’s land management practices
DATE: Mar 30, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
Hickenlooper urges governors to embrace Gold King lessons
Western states should work together to address enduring contamination
DATE: Mar 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
School District 9-R superintendent frustrated over testing
Opposition to standardized testing flies in the face of calls for accountability
DATE: Mar 28, 2016 | CATEGORY: Editorials
