colorado water congress
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Gov. John Hickenlooper: use severance taxes for funding water plan
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Gov. John Hickenlooper, on another stop on his farewell tour, talked to the water community Thursday that largely backed the development of the Colorado water plan in 2015 and what the future holds for Colorado water. Hickenlooper was initially expected to talk about his water legacy during the Colorado Water Congress luncheon in southeast Denver,…
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Hick to address legacy questions at Water Congress conference
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Thursday, Gov. John Hickenlooper will address his water legacy – the state water plan chief among them – as the Colorado Water Congress moves through the second day of its annual winter meeting. Hickenlooper will be queried about his views on his legacy in water and the state’s water future by pollster and political analyst Floyd…
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Wanna be a Colorado Supreme Court Justice? There’s an opening
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Next Monday is the application deadline for anyone interested in becoming the next Associate Justice on the Colorado Supreme Court. The seven-member Court is shy one justice at the moment, which took place when President Trump nominated Associate Justice Allison Eid to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. She was nominated to fill the…
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State lawmakers take on Colorado water plan
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Sometime between now and November, a select committee of lawmakers will come up with their own ideas for the direction of Colorado’s 2-year-old water plan. It’s a bit of a change-up from the current role of the Colorado General Assembly, which for the past several years has done little more than write checks to implement…
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Colorado Water Congress takes on a costly question: How to pay state’s tab for water
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Steamboat Springs – Could a tax similar to the one on sugary drinks in Boulder become a vehicle for financing the state’s multi-billion dollar needs for water? Probably not, but a similar idea is on a laundry list of solutions floating around the state’s water community. This week, funding the state water plan is among…
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Stone: A data collector’s perspective on the pros & cons of open records
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Data is ever-growing. The current rate is exponential. In fact, 90 percent of the world’s existing data was created in the last two years alone. As recent as 1990, if you needed to know what year Colorado became a state, you’d probably have to open and read an encyclopedia to obtain the result. Today, a…
