An overall orderly and well attended Animas River Days parade last Saturday night, mostly devoid of the overlty irresponsible and sometimes dangerous displays of drunkenness of years past  
 
A dramatic drop in the price of solar panels contributing to a rise of 115 gigawatts of renewable energy in 2012, equivalent to the power generated by 1,500 nuclear reactors  
 
The long-awaited and almost cancelled 2013 Stanley Cup finals kicking off today, with what is sure to be an entertaining and brutal battle between the Bruins and Blackhawks  
Several large wildfires roaring across the state, including the Royal Gorge and Black Forest fires, the latter of which is near the site of last year’s devastating Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs

 
 
 

The latest map from the U.S. Drought Monitor showing most of Southwest Colorado in the “extreme” category and much of New Mexico in the “exceptional,” or most severely dry, category

 

  
 
   
The Obama Administration dragging its feet on signing legislation for stricter energy-efficiency and greenhouse-gas standards, which would yield $400 billion in consumer savings and reduce carbon emissions by hundreds of millions of tons by 2030