March 12, 2018 Innovative ‘Online Initiative’ will help diversify, boost Utah’s rural economies “The premise was simple, educate, coach, mentor and teach rural businesses and members of the workforce to take advantage of online opportunities, outside of…
March 8, 2018 Utah demands compensation for revenues sucked up by federal lands Ivory said “in lieu” should mean “equal to.” However, he said Utah makes more in two months from tax revenue on the taxable land…
March 2, 2018 Utah State legislator gives enviros eye poke with proposed highway name “We’re very, very thankful for President Trump what he did in downsizing the national monument and bringing attention to the fact we can still…
February 23, 2018 Green billionaire spending big dollars to protect controversial Colorado commissioner La Plata County Commissioner Gwen Lachelt faces new ethics questions with the revelation that a group with close ties to California billionaire Tom Steyer…
February 10, 2018 Colorado citizens issue resolution calling for proper administration of water rights Plans using vague terms such as ‘banking, ‘augmentation,’ ‘fallowing,’ ‘consumptive conservation,’ etc., offer property owners–mostly farmers and ranchers–generous cash payments to decrease or stop…
February 9, 2018 Commissioner’s environmental lobbying activities spur Colorado recall effort While serving as La Plata County Commissioner, Lachelt has been receiving payments from the environmentalist non-profit, Western Leaders Network, to support her travel and…
February 8, 2018 Utah’s Noel introduces bill creating review process for federal designations Utah’s ongoing national monuments controversies may help jump-start Representative Noel’s bill. The painful and divisive conflicts over Utah’s unpopular Grand Staircase-Escalante (Clinton 1996) and…
January 18, 2018 Questions surround Colorado River District hiring enviro lobbyist as comms director During the 2000’s, Kessler worked as a senior staffer for Colorado Democrat Senators, Ken Salazar and then Michael Bennet. In 2011, he strode headlong…
January 17, 2018 San Juan County reopens sections of Recapture Canyon closed by BLM “Earlier this week, the county came out and graded this road, and the BLM said, ‘well, I guess according to the Title V it’s…
January 12, 2018 Zinke, drain the swamp before relocating Interior agencies to the West The era of replacing science-based resource management with heady, specious ‘environmentalist’ theories formulated by radical special interest groups needs to end. If Interior is…
