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It’s time to cool it with the over-the-top rhetoric in our politics. Talk of civil war or a national divorce, whatever that means, are unhelpful and just drive us further apart on issues that we should be able to come to agreement on. Over the weekend, Rep. Matt Soper, R-Delta, posted to Twitter a heated…

Colorado’s rural entrepreneurs should be feeling relieved this week with the news that Startup Colorado will not be leaving us anytime soon. Last week, the organization announced that it had relaunched as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, according to reporting by The Daily Sentinel’s Nathan Deal. The program was originally going to sunset in July 2022…

With energy bills where they are right now, it’s starting to feel like burning dollar bills for heat might be the cheaper option. But why are prices so high? There’s a short-term answer and a long-term one. The short answer is the price of natural gas. Natural gas prices jumped to their highest point in…

A piece of legislation is being floated that would change how we elect county commissioners to be chosen by the districts they represent and ask voters in larger counties to decide if they want to increase to five commissioners. We think both ideas have merit and would lead to a more representative and collaborative county…

As we transition away from carbon energy toward cleaner sources of power ,the communities that relied on the jobs from the carbon-based economy are going to face serious challenges. We’re seeing that play out in our own backyard with Craig, which will have its coal mines and power plant closed by 2030. We think both…

The celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life this year comes at a time when our deepest divisions as a country and as people have again been exposed. Even here in this community we’ve seen hate raise its ugly head. Living in a heterogeneous society is hard. We have an instinct as humans not to…

In August, Gov. Jared Polis and state Rep. Matt Soper, R-Delta, visited a large, lettuce-growing greenhouse near Silt to highlight a bipartisan measure that would help indoor farming businesses. As of last week that business was closed. That’s not the end of the story, though. George Barr, president of Spring Born, said he was working…

Over the years we’ve used the first editorial of a new year to call on our local leaders to think bigger and to set audacious goals for this community. In 2014, quoting Theodore Roosevelt, we asked the city, county and school district to “dare greatly.” To a large extent they have. Those were darker days…