Author: The Daily Sentinel editorial board

Revere him or revile him, no one can dispute that Elon Musk is a genius in our time. Musk is the founder, chief executive officer and chief technical officer of Tesla, SpaceX and a handful of other dazzling companies, including The Boring Company (which is actually not boring at all). The most interesting thing about…

A cluster of counties on Colorado’s Western Slope (Montrose, Rio Blanco, Mesa, Ouray, San Miguel, Moffat and Delta) along with three counties in eastern Utah have warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius over the past century. …read full editorial here.

The partisan witch hunt is over. Call off the dogs. …read full editorial here.

A week ago in this space, we contemplated creative solutions the state of Colorado should consider to help communities emerge from the great COVID-19 recession better prepared to contend with a new economic reality. …read full editorial here.

After the pandemic, racial justice is the big story of the year – so big that 2020 could go down in the history books as the Year of Reckoning. …read full editorial here.

Six years ago, in 2014, it was Congressman Jared Polis who had to be talked into a cease-fire to avoid a “scorched earth” ballot-box war over oil and gas regulation in Colorado…read full editorial here.

The COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with civil unrest in major metropolitan areas, is pushing entrepreneurs (large and small) and location-neutral workers to begin “kicking the tires” of small- and medium-sized communities across the nation to gauge whether they might be able to relocate to a …read full editorial here.

As defined by the U.S. Constitution, federalism is a fundamental aspect of American government, whereby the states are not merely regional representatives of the federal government, but are granted independent powers and responsibilities, including law enforcement. We are, after all, the …read full editorial here.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed the HEROES Act, which includes funding for state and local governments to protect critical services during the pandemic. …read full editorial here.

We were prepared, not too long ago, to endorse William Perry Pendley’s nomination to serve as director of the Bureau of Land Management on the cynical premise that no matter who is put in charge of the agency, the policy agenda is unlikely to change. …read full editorial here.