high country news
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‘Tiny homes’ — a hit in pricey Denver and pricier Aspen — could be coming to Cripple Creek
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By 1930 it’s believed that Cripple Creek, now a small gambling getaway west of Colorado Springs, created 30 millionaires with its bounty of gold. But today, the city is looking for ways to build more affordable housing. Mostly for the people working in the city’s popular casinos. Like Colorado’s urban centers and lavish ski spots,…
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LOMAX: Hardline groups use hardball tactics to vilify, manipulate state oil and gas regulators
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The interview was unusually candid. Quite possibly, the interview subject – one of the nation’s top environmental activists – forgot he was on the record. “New injunctions … and new bad press take a terrible toll on agency morale,” he said, describing his group’s legal and political tactics against environmental regulators. “They feel like their…
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Bipartisan pols close ranks with rural Colorado landowners over ‘right to farm’
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After a years-long court battle with a neighbor, a West Slope Colorado family has won a jury verdict in Delta County District Court affirming its right to operate a 15,000-hen egg farm under Colorado’s “right to farm” law. The case is said to have far-reaching implications for farming as well as property rights in general,…
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In Colorado, where water = politics, Denverites pay little, use little
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… At least, compared with some other cities around the West. That’s according to the global water/resources news service Circle of Blue, brought to our attention by way of a report this week from High Country News in picturesque Paonia. As noted in the News’s report, a survey by Circle of Blue on water use was…
