The Gallagher Amendment is a 40-year-old formula that has no business in the constitution. We are proud to stand with the state’s small business leaders, who say Gallagher poses an enormous threat to Colorado’s small businesses in this post-COVID world. We are proud to stand with firefighters, teachers, law enforcement and rural hospitals, who all […]
Ken Salazar
Special to The Colorado Sun
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Columns
Opinion: Super fires across the West have many causes, but one gets little attention
The western wildfires the past two years have been horrible and tragic. Last year in southern Colorado we experienced our third-largest fire ever with the Spring Fire in Costilla and Huerfano counties, destroying 150 homes and buildings and burning over 100,000 acres of forest. Meanwhile, this year in California, thousands of people have been displaced […]