Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week rolls on with Sherman hearing, rally
In what the Pew Environment Group has dubbed “Unofficial Colorado Roadless Week,” opponents of the state’s controversial policy aimed at protecting 4.4 million acres...
NYT hyperbole alert: Romanoff run ‘deeply dividing’ Colo. Democrats
The media loves the Romanoff insurgency. The New York Times ran with the story today. What's the story, exactly?
Former state Speaker of the House...
House orders feds to clean-up Leadville tunnel
Partisan games were finally put to rest on Tuesday, as a long overdue environmental clean-up bill for Leadville, Colo., passed the U.S. House of...
Montrose County faces divisive uranium mill permit decision
MONTROSE — Actress and environmental activist Daryl Hannah says all the heated rhetoric over who should have the most say about the proposed Piñon Ridge uranium mill — western Montrose County mining families or affluent residents of Telluride and surrounding San Miguel County — is a moot point to Mother Earth. “These boundaries and these borders are manmade, but the air and the water and the soil and the wildlife don’t really recognize those boundaries,” she said in an interview with The Colorado Independent.
Montrose County commissioners on Wednesday will consider a plan to revive the area's long-dormant uranium industry.
Denver Councilman Charlie Brown’s city zoning code cartoons
City planning is an art and a science. It's theoretical and practical. You have to think like a painter and an attorney, like a...
Water gurus converge to slake thirst of exploding Colorado population
Water experts are meeting en masse in Denver today and Wednesday to try to figure out how to plan for an expected doubling of...
Rural poor reap benefits from old-style social networking
Joining the local softball league may or may not make your husband a better fielder—but a new study shows that it could make him...
Vilsack appreciates ‘unique situation’ driving Colorado on roadless rule wildfire mitigation
DENVER — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday gave the strongest indication to date that the draft of Colorado's roadless rule, which allows road-building exemptions for wildfire mitigation in wilderness areas, will at least be closely considered as the Obama administration moves toward a comprehensive national rule.
WATCH: Bachmann on the threat of a one-world currency
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., spoke at the conservative Take Back America conference this weekend in St Louis. She told attendees it would be...
Sarah Palin’s insta-book and the future of journalism
Sarah Palin finished her memoir four months after reaching a book deal. That's fast. Maybe too fast. Or maybe too slow!
Roughly two weeks...