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Opinion

  • COLUMN: Vote Yes on 3B and help our...

    Joan Kniss

    Guest column

    Overcrowding in our schools is not a school district problem; it is a problem of OUR community. It is a problem that affects our property values and the economics of the entire community.

    Why would a business chose to come into our town if our schools are on split schedule or an alternative year round track?

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    COLUMN: Got your ballot? Good, let’...

     Go out and check your mailbox. I’ll still be here when you get back.

    Got your ballot? Great, let’s get started.

     

    Governor

    If you’ve read my columns, you know I’m no fan of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s fence-straddling, middle-of-the-road efforts to find compromise on everything.

  • COLUMN: Kids in District 27J are...

    Jason McEldowney

    Guest column

  • LETTER: Gardner wrong on health...

    Editor:

    After 32 years as a rural family doctor, I measure the value of a politician by their commitment to the health of our people. In Fort Morgan I met Cory Gardner. After hearing him criticize the Affordable Care Act, I asked him what he would do to insure the 800,000 Coloradans with no health insurance.  He had no plan.  

  • LETTER: Janich’s take on 27J...

    Editor:

    The op-ed from Mr. Janich that ran last month was confusing and wildly incorrect.

    First of all, this November, voters will be asked to vote for a bond measure to help build new schools as well as update and/or expand others in order to accommodate all the new kids now living in the district. It’s not a mill-levy override, as he suggested.

  • COLUMN: Working to change to...

    Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora

    From the day I was elected to Congress in 2009, I have been engaged in a fight to change the culture of Washington, D.C.

  • COLUMN: November’s elections won’t...

    Lee H. Hamilton

    Guest Column

     

    Members of Congress are home now, campaigning for the upcoming elections. Their messages are all over the map, and for a good reason: they have very little to brag about.

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    COLUMN: A ‘no’ vote on Amendment 68...

    A horse is a horse, of course, of course, but who can make sense of Amendment 68?

  • LETTER: Address moratorium before...

    Editor,

    Working with law enforcement and the community, the former Adams County Board of Commissioners placed a moratorium on marijuana for unincorporated Adams County. Commissioner Chaz Tedesco said a review of this issue must be addressed by 2015.

  • COLUMN: Let’s start replacing ‘...

    Gelissa Garcia, MA, LPC

    Guest Columnist

  • COLUMN: Insurers shift higher...

    Tracy Lieberman

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    COLUMN: No on Amendment 67:...

    The state of Colorado ought to be clear in valuing the unborn, and our legal system ought to impose tougher penalties for those convicted of attacking pregnant women and causing the loss of a fetus.

  • COLUMN: The next round of an...

    Amanda Ufheil-Somers

    Guest Column

     

    Once again, a U.S. president vows to eliminate an extremist militia in the Middle East to make the region, and Americans, safe.

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    COLUMN: Taxpayers need to think...

     

     

    Tom Janich

    Guest column

  • COLUMN: Restoring government by the...

    Marge Baker

    Guest column

     

     

    One of the many privileges of living in a democracy is the ability of each of us to have an equal say about how we are governed. Through elections, our lawmakers can be held accountable for how well they fight for the interests of the people they represent.

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    COLUMN: In suicide prevention,...

     

     

    Emily Oosterhouse

    We don’t like to talk about suicide. However, more than 40,000 Americans die each year due to suicide, which currently is the 10th-leading cause of death in our nation. Locally, there were 71 completed suicides in Adams County. 

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    Column: Suicide prevention among...

    September is Suicide Prevention Month. But we need to talk about suicide prevention more than one month out of the year.

    It affects all of us, including our children, teenagers and young adults. Suicide is the third-leading cause of death for people ages 10 to 24 years nationally and claims the lives of approximately 4,600 teens each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  

  • COLUMN: Time to be part of the...

    Glenn Mollette

    Guest column

    While ISIS horrifically beheaded Steven Sotloff and James Foley, some Americans were being inconvenienced on airplanes. Most of us are spoiled and when we stop and think for a minute our inconveniences are small in comparison to so much else in the world.

  • COLUMN: Breaking Our Dependence on...

    Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora

    This editorial that follows is about the U.S addiction to foreign oil and how it imperils our economic and national security. We must and can end that addiction through a renewed emphasis upon various forms of energy development here within North America where we have reliable partners in Canada and Mexico, our own abundant energy resources, and, if unleashed, the entrepreneurial, spirit to use energy more efficiently.

  • COLUMN: Staving off traffic jams on...

    Timothy Karr

    Guest column

     

     

    There was no vacation for the Internet this summer.

    While many Americans slipped away to the beach, Internet users were busy defending the openness of a network that has become this era’s engine for free expression, ingenuity and just about everything else.