The introduction last week of the Hermosa Watershed Protection Act, which would remove 108,000 acres from future roads, drilling, mining or development and designate 38,000 acres as wilderness
The anticipated opening of the 2012 London Summer Games, turning the world’s attention for a few weeks from war and strife to camaraderie and good will
 

More signs of economic recovery, with the City reporting sales tax receipts up 11.2 percent this June over last, bringing the total year-to-date uptick to 6 percent over 2011
Last weekend’s short-lived Air Park Fire offering a sober reminder that we are not out of the woods yet when it comes to the threat of wildfire


 
 


The seemingly illogical spike in Colorado gun sales in the wake of the Aurora massacre, with a 41 percent increase in background checks for people wanting to buy firearms 
 
 Consensus that U.S. poverty levels will near 16 percent this year, the highest since the 1960s and the “War on Poverty”