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Post Independent opinion: Don't risk downtown vitality with all-day parking shuffle
Downtown Glenwood Springs is a peaceful place right now, but that tranquility is about to be busted open by groundbreakings in two adjacent blocks along Cooper Avenue.
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02/07/2012 11:12pm
Carbondale should put its creativity to work
A town divided.

The Village at Crystal River development proposal was rejected Tuesday by Carbondale voters by nearly 2-1.
  02/02/2012 9:33pm
Post Independent opinion: Silt's plans to use urban renewal authority raise serious questions
What ever happened to the free market?

A conservative slate of trustees was elected in Silt in 2010, and, as some of them have reminded us recently, part of their platform was to bring a grocery store to town.
  01/31/2012 9:44pm
Fix needed for public school funding inequity
Some very different conversations related to funding are taking place within the three public school districts that serve Garfield County and the lower Roaring Fork Valley.
  01/26/2012 10:14pm
No convincing need for Village at Crystal River
Ballots have arrived in Carbondale mailboxes asking voters to uphold or overturn the town government's approval of the Village at Crystal River development.

It's decision time for the old Bar Fork pasture.
  01/12/2012 10:39pm
Carnegie taps a new hero in our community
Little did we know that a hero moved into our community last summer.

It wasn't until December, when the venerable Carnegie Hero Fund Commission awarded a Carnegie hero medal to David R. Jones, that his act of valor came to light here.
  01/05/2012 10:04pm
Managers under the microscope
Ed Green started today in the unexpected position of no longer being the Garfield County manager. On Tuesday, the Garfield Board of County Commissioners terminated Green, effective immediately, ending his nearly 14 years of service.
  01/03/2012 10:23pm
Post Independent opinion: Overriding concerns about how district will spend mill levy
The Re-1 school board has a big responsibility in deciding how best to spend the money from the recently passed mill levy override.
  12/20/2011 11:10pm
Carbondale, hold your ground on the bag ban
When the Carbondale Board of Trustees banned grocery stores from handing out plastic shopping bags, at a meeting on Oct. 25, it was a brave move on the part of the town.
  12/15/2011 9:50pm
Three reasons to applaud Garfield County
Garfield County government is making great strides on three fronts and deserves a hearty pat on the back.

The county has:

• Shifted its document-handling processes away from paper copies and toward electronic documents.
  12/13/2011 10:53pm
Power to the people of Glenwood Springs
The city of Glenwood Springs is weighing a 30-year contract to buy wholesale electricity from its present supplier, the Municipal Electric Agency of Nebraska (MEAN). Wisely, City Council slowed down the approval process at its meeting last week.
  12/08/2011 10:42pm
Post Independent opinion: A better life is in the bag(gage)
Teachers often say how much it means to them when they see that light go on in their students' heads. Now those students can help make lights go on halfway across the globe.
  12/06/2011 10:54pm
At River Edge, growth of a different kind
We are disappointed by the recent development approvals for the River Edge Colorado residential project, although we are not surprised.
  12/01/2011 10:36pm
Post Independent opinion: Shop locally with your holiday dollars
Now that we've experienced Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — whew! — we can enjoy a few more relaxed weeks of holiday shopping.
  11/29/2011 10:55pm
There's plenty to be thankful for
According to Webster's Dictionary, thanksgiving is the act of giving thanks, the expression of gratitude or a form of words in recognition of divine mercies. Thanksgiving Day is defined as the fourth Thursday in November, set apart as an annual...
  11/22/2011 10:18pm
Post Independent opinion: Re-1 board taking the right steps
The newly minted Roaring Fork Re-1 school board didn't take long to get down to business.
  11/17/2011 10:42pm
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