By George Sibley
You’re probably thinking I mean the “Continental Divide.” No, I’m talking – again – about the lurking ghost that has always haunted America, but which burst forth in full dark bloom in last year’s election: the urban-rural divide. Or, as demographers increasingly characterize it today: the metropolitan-nonmetropolitan divide.
by George Sibley Badmouthing Denver and the Front Range metropolis that it has seeded is a pretty common sport in the nonmetropolitan parts of Colorado. But, we probably ought to all be asking ourselves if this isn’t a little disingenuous, and try to clarify our real water relationship with Denver. The water planning process the …
By George Sibley
How do you conduct resource planning for a resource when you know the demand will increase, but the supply won’t, and might even decrease? And how does a generation which has a heritage of generally avoiding questions like that through technological fixes, prepare a plan for coming generations to actually address such questions with better political and economic infrastructure?