Author: The Lovel

The last time we checked, there were no prairie dogs in the downtown Loveland location being redeveloped as The Foundry. That’s notable, because had the city of Loveland and Larimer County agreed to a deal for the relocation of the county offices into downtown Loveland – now boasting plans for an expansive parking garage –…

Colorado needs to bring its open records practices into the 21st century, but that’s looking unlikely this year. Too bad. Senate Bill 40, which this editorial board supported about a month ago, would require that any public record kept in a digital format be released in that format when a citizen requests it. Now, however,…

Colorado needs to bring its open records practices into the 21st century, but that’s looking unlikely this year. Too bad. Senate Bill 40, which this editorial board supported about a month ago, would require that any public record kept in a digital format be released in that format when a citizen requests it. Now, however,…

Colorado needs to bring its open records practices into the 21st century, but that’s looking unlikely this year. Too bad. Senate Bill 40, which this editorial board supported about a month ago, would require that any public record kept in a digital format be released in that format when a citizen requests it. Now, however,…

The Colorado Municipal League and Colorado Counties Inc. many times are rivals on public policy issues, but on one issue they agree: their constituencies overwhelming approve of government having a role in providing broadband Internet service. In each election in which voters have been asked to override legislative rules regarding broadband service, voters have not…

Wednesday’s announcement of the discovery of seven planets that might sustain life, founding orbiting a dwarf star, should give a boost to interest in space exploration. Astronomers say the planets, each about the size of our Earth, could be at the right temperature to sustain oceans of water. And they are about 40 light-years away,…

Four decades ago, Colorado wildlife officials embarked on an effort to bring back an imperiled wildlife species. Once facing extinction due harm to their wetlands habitat, the river otter, over the past 41 years, has rebounded here. From 1975 through 1992, Colorado Parks and Wildlife biologists released 120 young otters in the state. In the…

On Feb. 1, Thompson School District officials had planned to meet with the public and the Board of Education to discuss the next steps forward following the failure of tax issues in the November general election. However, a powerful ice storm that night forced the cancellation of the meeting – and it was never rescheduled.…

On Thursday, President Donald Trump finally gave some insight to the departure of Michael Flynn, who had served as Trump’s national security adviser until Monday, when he resigned. The departure of Flynn, Trump reported, was not because of his discussions – before Trump’s inauguration – of the status of economic sanctions placed upon Russia and…

A year after an effort to lower the bar for implementation of the death-penalty in Colorado failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a move to repeal the state’s death penalty failed this week in the same committee. As we noted when Berthoud Sen. Kevin Lundberg’s bill failed last year, it’s unfortunate that Sen. Lucia Guzman’s…