rural colorado
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Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper, Western Slope business leaders talk about access to capital, tariffs
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U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper joined a group of business leaders from the Western Slope on Friday, when they talked about the economic transformation of the region, as well as the challenges it faces, including access to financial capital and limited workforce. “Grand Junction was supposed to be dead and gone twenty years ago,” Hickenlooper told…
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4 Colorado counties granted $630,000 to upgrade record systems
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Four counties in rural Colorado will receive over $630,000 to modernize their record systems through a state grant program. Phillips, Moffat, Clear Creek and Baca counties will use the funds to provide digital access to records, maintain and upgrade recording technologies, and properly index historical documents, officials said. The grant awards were announced on Thursday. …
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Colorado House OKs right to repair agricultural equipment
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Colorado’s farmers may soon be able to access the resources needed to repair their own agricultural equipment after the state House of Representatives on Tuesday passed House Bill 1011. Modern agriculture equipment often runs on advanced computer software and, currently, some manufacturers prohibit access to these systems, or do not provide information on how they work. If approved…
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12 Colorado cities, towns lose urban status with new Census criteria
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Despite Colorado’s population exploding over the last decade, a dozen cities and towns lost their status as urban areas due to revised criteria from the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau released a list of places considered urban based on their new criteria Thursday, showing almost 1,000 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. being changed…
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History Colorado awards $4.5 million in grants for diverse cultural preservation
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The History Colorado nonprofit awarded $4.5 million in grants this month to nearly two dozen projects focused on preserving diverse cultural heritage in rural Colorado. The History Colorado State Historical Fund awarded grants ranging from $67,000 to $250,000 to 23 projects across the state. Projects were selected for working to protect the heritage of rural…
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Candidates for governor clash on plans for rural Colorado
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Gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton was meeting voters in Greeley, Fort Morgan and Sterling Monday as his campaign rolled out his Rural Colorado Priorities Plan. The Republican from Denver said if he’s elected governor, he’ll tackle rural broadband internet needs and connect his administration to the state’s farmers and ranchers. “As governor, I will be a…
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PATTY LIMERICK | Forge new bonds between urban and rural Colorado
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COMMENTARY: This is part of our series of contributed essays, “Imagine a Great Colorado.” See below for more. “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic,” William Jennings Bryan said in his famed “Cross of Gold” speech in 1896, “but destroy our farms, and…
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For consumers’ sake, let’s keep ‘net neutrality’ in place in Colorado
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On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission put our democracy and our economy at risk. That’s when the FCC voted to deregulate the internet and repeal the 2015 Net Neutrality rules. Net neutrality states that no internet service provider can block your access to any website or service for politically or financially motivated reasons.…
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Next-gen energy technology can give rural Colorado a much-needed boost
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Isn’t technology grand? In the last decade, we’ve seen advancements in technology drive the price of 70 inch TVs from $15,000 in 2007 to around $1,000 today. Think about that. In ten years, a six foot wide TV went from something only the very wealthy could afford to something you could buy with the crumbs…
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Time to account for the state’s troubled conservation easements
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When legislation for perpetual conservation easements was first proposed in the United States Congress, the terms “rare” and “unique” were used to describe conservation easements eligible for the federal income tax deduction. The program was intended to be used judiciously for the purpose of giving landowners a financial incentive to give up their surface development…
