LPEA tempering recent news of a rate hike with the announcement that it will reduce the cost of green power by 25 percent starting next year


Durango Mountain Resort snow-making and grooming crews working around the clock to deliver top-to-bottom skiing for opening day, despite little cooperation from Mother Nature

Recent news that Colorado’s jobless rate dropped again in October, adding another 8,800 people to the work force, for a total of 30,000 new jobs in 2011
 

The 2011-12 ski season already off to a tragic and inauspicious start, with 50 reported human-triggered avalanches in Colorado, one out-of-bounds death in Utah and two deaths on Colorado ski resort slopes


Local politics mirroring the national stalemate with two out of three county commissioners deciding to scrap the Comprehensive Plan as well as the thousands of hours and dollars that went into it

Blatant, heavy-handed abuse of peaceful Occupy Wall Street protestors by trigger-happy, tear gas-wielding police as evidenced in video footage and personal accounts

 

In this week's issue...

May 15, 2025
End of the trail

Despite tariff pause, Colorado bike company can’t hang on through supply chain chaos

May 8, 2025
Shared pain

Dismal trend highlights need to cut usage in Upper Basin, too

April 24, 2025
A tale of two bills

Nuclear gets all the hype, but optimizing infrastructure will have bigger impact