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U.S., Mexico update international treaty over Colorado River

Sep 28, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

In an era when the United States and Mexico aren’t exactly on speaking terms on issues like trade and immigration, there is one issue where both nations are cooperating pretty well: water. In Santa Fe, N.M., on Wednesday, representatives of the United States, along with the International Boundary and Water Commission, signed their portion of…
Biennial of the Americas takes a look at the Colorado River and water challenges

Sep 18, 2017

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Marianne Goodl

“It’s warm, it’s us, it’s serious, we’re sure and we can fix it.” And without a solution, or many solutions, it – climate change – could cause Colorado to lose 20 percent of the water from the Colorado River by 2050 and more than a third of its flow by 2100, according to Brad Udall,…
Colorado crop OK for now, but need for immigration reform ever more pressing

Jul 21, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Despite concerns earlier this year that the new Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies would lead to labor shortages across Colorado’s agricultural sector, growers and their advocates are breathing a sigh of relief as the harvest approaches, confident they’ll have the hands to pick and package what could be a bumper crop. But even though one…
Smith: Anti-NAFTA AMLO, Mexico’s next president?

Jun 19, 2017

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Morgan Smith

Now that the Trump administration has initiated the process of renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), let’s hope that this process is marked by thoughtfulness and not rhetoric like the president’s earlier comments that NAFTA was “the worst trade deal in history.” Despite the anti-trade rhetoric, NAFTA has been a great success, resulting…
Smith: U.S. ties with Mexico matter now more than ever

Mar 15, 2017

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Morgan Smith

With all the excitement, chaos, turmoil – whatever you want to call it – that has filled Donald Trump’s first days in office, it’s easy to forget that Joaquín Guzmán, “El Chapo,” the world’s most notorious criminal and drug cartel leader was extradited from Mexico to the United States the same day as Trump’s inauguration.…
Import tax gets no way, wait-and-see responses from CO delegation

Feb 6, 2017

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Mike McKibbin

President Donald Trump’s proposed 20 percent import tax on Mexican products to pay for an immigration control wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico would have a big impact on Colorado’s rural economy, according to economists. Such a tax would increase the price of Mexican goods for U.S. consumers, who would ultimately pay…
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has concerns with imposing a stiff tax on Mexican imports

Jan 30, 2017

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Peter Marcus

U.S. Sen. Corry Gardner, a Republican, will oppose imposing a 20-percent import tax on Mexican imports, a sign that the Trump administration may face difficulties convincing Congress to back the proposal. Gardner, who was recently tapped to head Senate Republicans’ campaign fundraising with the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he fears the tax would start a trade fight…
Election exposes generational divide among Hispanics

Oct 30, 2016

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NICHOLAS RICCARDI

Donald Trump’s rhetoric on immigration is testing a long-term trend among Hispanics: Members of a family that has been in the country for multiple generations and uses primarily English are more likely to vote Republican than those who more recently arrived in the United States. The number of Latinos in the United States is growing,…
US Southwest faces threat of megadroughts with rising temps

Oct 6, 2016

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Jared Wright

Already dealing with parched conditions, the U.S. Southwest faces the threat of megadroughts this century as temperatures rise, says a new study that found the risk is reduced if heat-trapping gases are curbed. Oppressive dry spells lasting at least two decades have gripped the Southwest before, but scientists said future megadroughts would be hotter and…
Reagan: Helping Trump isn’t easy

Sep 2, 2016

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Michael Reagan

Donald Trump actually looked like a statesman in Mexico City Wednesday afternoon. It didn’t matter what he and the president of Mexico talked about. It didn’t even matter if they made a secret handshake deal to split the cost of building the great Wall of Trump. For the first time in his long campaign, Trump…