Cartoonist George Russell calls California’s Kevin and Nancy Lunny “great fighters,” and there is no doubt about it. They’ve fought the warped bureaucracy of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s National Park Service to the gates of the U.S. Supreme Court. Their lease for the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. at
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Letter From The Editor: Oysters
Ken Salazar, our Secretary of the Interior with an anger management problem, is nearing the Obama Administration’s exit doors. He will likely be replaced by any one of a half dozen former senators and governors from the West. Salazar, a former Colorado attorney general and U.S. Senator, went and got
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Secretary Salazar Threatens to “Punch Out” Reporter for Asking About Wild Horses
Why did Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Election Day threaten to “punch out” a Colorado newspaper reporter? Probably because the reporter, Dave Philipps, now of the Colorado Springs Gazette, knew too much, mostly from a two hour interview last spring with Salazar’s neighbor Tom Davis of La Jara, CO. Davis
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Colorado Celebrates Recovery of Rocky Ford Cantaloupes
ROCKY FORD, CO — The 135th annual Watermelon Day at the Arkansas Valley Fair was eclipsed by a statewide declaration of Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Day by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. No one seemed to care, however, as fairgoers were happy to celebrate the recovery of Rocky Ford cantaloupes as they
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