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The Arkansas Valley Conduit debate: What headlines leave out
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The Arkansas Valley Conduit debate: What headlines leave out

By Bob Cooper | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In the last week we have seen media all over the state cover Trump's veto of the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act. All the headlines point to Trump punishing Colorado and depriving people of having clean water. However, none of the media covered important details about the project. Nor have they asked key questions. Is the project viable and should federal funds be used to support the project?    Consider this background info from federal documents for the project: “The purpose of AVC is to deliver water for municipal and industrial water use within Southeastern’s boundaries. This water supply is needed to supplement or replace existing poor quality water and to help meet AVC participants’ proj...
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When outages become policy: Colorado’s energy accountability gap
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When outages become policy: Colorado’s energy accountability gap

By RMV Editorial Board The mid-December power shutoffs weren’t a weather anomaly or a one-off emergency. They were planned. And for tens of thousands of Coloradans, that fact changed everything. Families scrambled for generators. Hospitals shifted to contingency plans. Small businesses began calculating losses they may never recover. What followed stripped away the abstractions surrounding Colorado’s energy agenda. Policy decisions once discussed in targets, timelines and rulemakings showed up in daily life.  For readers who missed it, that concern was put on the record on Dec. 23, when Republican lawmakers sent a letter to Gov. Jared Polis, calling on him to reverse his electrification agenda and rein in the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). And th...
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New York’s Collectivist Experiment: A Cautionary Tale for Colorado Too
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New York’s Collectivist Experiment: A Cautionary Tale for Colorado Too

By Shaina Cole | Contributing Writer, Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice In his inaugural remarks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York should “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”  https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/2006823362182394125?s=20 It sounded philosophical. For many residents listening, though, it also sounded practical—a signal that the city was preparing to step in more forcefully as everyday costs continued to rise. This shift, driven by mounting financial pressures on families, risks long-term trade-offs in housing supply, job growth, public services, and safety—are issues explored below. The appeal of collectivism in a city like New York does not begin with theory. It begins with pressure. ...
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There is No Such Thing as “Non-Partisan” 
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There is No Such Thing as “Non-Partisan” 

By Michael J Badagliacco, “MJB” | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice I recently stumbled across yet another sanctimonious article whining that school boards, city councils, and other local bodies are supposed to be “non-partisan.” The author practically clutched their pearls at the thought of politics creeping into these sacred spaces. Absolute BUNK! There is no such thing as “non-partisan,” never has been, and pretending otherwise is intellectual dishonesty wrapped in a bow of naive wishful thinking. The “Non-Partisan” Myth Is a Dangerous Delusion This whole non-partisan charade is sold as some noble experiment: take the big, bad party labels off the ballot and, poof, suddenly everyone becomes a pure-hearted servant of the public good, free from ideology, bias, or...
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Colorado ratepayers foot the bill for the “Just Transition”
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Colorado ratepayers foot the bill for the “Just Transition”

By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project Who gets stuck with the bill for the “Just Transition”? You. There’s a lot of detail in the Sun article linked below about various communities and how they feel as if Colorado’s “Just Transition” for coal-fired power plants isn’t too just for them.I don’t blame them. With a vote and the swipe of a pen, Colorado Democrats have hamstrung communities that were built around coal-fired power plants in the name of their arbitrary climate mandates. Quoting the article:“Colorado’s push to close all its coal-fired power plants by 2031 — to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — is creating a major economic threat to communities that have relied on jobs and taxes from those plants and the mines that feed them.”*I will leav...
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Economists Miss Again as Trump Economy Defies Gloomy Forecasts
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Economists Miss Again as Trump Economy Defies Gloomy Forecasts

By Stephen Moore | Commentary, Fox News Professional forecasters underestimated GDP growth by nearly 50% as third quarter hits 4.3% despite predictions of economic slowdown. Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year predicted high inflation and low economic growth. They were wrong on both counts. As you've probably heard, GDP growth for the third quarter came in at a red-hot 4.3%, following 3.5% for the second quarter. Some 90% of professional economists got it wrong — all underestimating the strength of the Trump economy. QED: These weren't random errors. These were "hate Trump" errors. They also...
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Minnesota Fraud Scandal Raises New Questions About Obama Era Policies
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Minnesota Fraud Scandal Raises New Questions About Obama Era Policies

By Tyler Durden (authored by X user Saggezza Etern) | Commentary, Zero Hedge Obama’s Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire The Heist You Paid For Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty. Every dollar you saved for your children’s tuition, your retirement, your security—gone. Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief driving a Porsche bought with your money, laughing as he waves a government-issued thank you note. This is not a hypothetical scenario. It is the reality of the American taxpayer in the wake of the single largest COVID-era fraud scheme in the nation’s history. While you were locked down, masked up, and worrying about the price of eggs, a sophisticated network of fraudsters in Minnesota was siphoning off a quarter of a billio...
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“Not a Land Grab”
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“Not a Land Grab”

By Aimee Tooker | Guest Commentary, Rocky Mountain Voice The proposed Dolores River National Conservation Area is a total of 68,000 acres along the river in Montezuma, Dolores and San Miguel Counties and was the result of over 15 years of stakeholder engagement. Despite the remote and beautiful nature of the Dolores River, over a century of coordinated collaboration among stakeholders has determined its optimal usage and management, and those local conversations excluded the use of both Wild and Scenic status as well as a designation as a National Monument.  A “Land Grab” would have been a 500,000-acre National Monument signed over by one President. This NCA proposal does NOT include any land in Montrose and Mesa counties and the critical mineral resource known as the Ur...
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Obama’s Refugee Machine Has Led to Massive Fraud and the Looting of America
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Obama’s Refugee Machine Has Led to Massive Fraud and the Looting of America

By: Tyler Durden, Authored by X user Saggezza Etern | Commentary, Zero Hedge Obama’s Billion-Dollar Minnesota Fraud Empire The Heist You Paid For Imagine waking up tomorrow to find your bank account empty. Every dollar you saved for your children’s tuition, your retirement, your security—gone. Now imagine looking out the window and seeing the thief driving a Porsche bought with your money, laughing as he waves a government-issued thank you note. This is not a hypothetical scenario. It is the reality of the American taxpayer in the wake of the single largest COVID-era fraud scheme in the nation’s history. While you were locked down, masked up, and worrying about the price of eggs, a sophisticated network of fraudsters in Minnesota was siphoning off a quarter of a bill...
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Rocky Mountain Voice’s Most Viral Moments of 2025
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Rocky Mountain Voice’s Most Viral Moments of 2025

By RMV Editorial Board 2025 was not a year that allowed anyone to stay on autopilot. It opened with President Donald Trump’s second inauguration and a sweeping federal reset that followed — more than 280 executive orders touching immigration, energy, enforcement, and regulatory authority. It was also a year marked by national tragedy, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk, an event that sent shockwaves through Colorado and reshaped the tone of public discourse. Against that backdrop, Rocky Mountain Voice didn’t just keep up with the news cycle — it documented it. And more importantly, readers stayed. What the work added up to Rocky Mountain Voice published more than 800 original articles in 2025, written by 98 independent writers across Color...
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