Pete Kolbenschlag

Guest column: Biden infrastructure directives a win for rural Colorado

The Civilian Conservation Corps, the CCC that built Red Rocks amphitheatre in the foothills outside Denver and Rim Rock Drive in Colorado National Monument, also constructed hundreds of miles of irrigation canals and ditches, recreation trails, roads…

Printed Letters: July 11, 2021

The year of 2020 was a horrific year for wildfires, which Greg Walcher builds on in his July 9 Daily Sentinel column that is otherwise full of his usual omissions and half-truths. Consider Australia, or all around the Arctic Circle, or Brazil — all…

Biden's first 100 days is just the start

Spring brings blooms to orchards and visitors showing up again at markets and wineries. With COVID hopefully behind, western Colorado is looking forward to a strong season. But this year, those who watch water are worried. Because even as we put one…

Printed Letters: Jan. 15, 2021

In Lauren Boebert’s strident objection to certification of the Electoral votes, she shouted, “I have constituents outside this building right now!” By “constituents,” did she mean actual residents of the Third Congressional District, or seditious…

Opinion: Lauren Boebert must go, because voters decide elections, not politicians

When I was born in the 1960s, the United States and its allies — led by the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Canada — were locked in the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact nations, a divide splitting Europe with the world in the…

Email Letters: Oct. 1, 2020

It wasn't a debate, but it was bad nonetheless First, I admit I prefer Mr. Biden for president. However, I was encouraged to watch Tuesday night because one of Mr. Trump's advisors had said, pre-debate, that Mr. Trump was prepared and I hoped that…

Printed Letters: June 27, 2019

Mesa commissioners ought to be ashamed Rep. Diana DeGette is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of two houses of Congress. So of course her wilderness bill is not an attempt to “sidestep” Congress, as Mesa County Commissioner Scott…

Email Letters: June 25, 2016

Mesa County commissioners ought to be ashamed Rep. Diana DeGette is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, one of two houses of Congress. So of course her wilderness bill is not an attempt to “sidestep” Congress, as Mesa County Commissioner…

Email Letters: March 18, 2019

Save Burkey Park! I think it's a shame that the residents around Burkey Park have no say in the April 2 election which will decide the fate of the park! The city wants to sell this parcel of land even though it was designated to be a park when Lewis…

Printed Letters: Feb. 24, 2019

There aren't two 'sides' to scientific facts When you fall off your roof and break your leg, there are not two sides to that story. You can argue what caused the fall, but gravity took you down, not up. When we burn fossil fuels we emit powerful…

Kolbenschlag column: Many reasons to oppose Jordan Cove project

Judging from the recent media reports, Garfield County’s glowing letter about Jordan Cove and the Pacific Connector pipeline in Oregon, and its “Stated Benefits of Jordan Cove,” a reader might think this project being pushed by a Canadian company has…

Printed Letters: Nov. 22, 2018

Statewide rules needed to ensure air quality I certainly hope that Nina Anderson is right when she asserts that oil and gas companies are ready to compromise and work for solutions to limit the impacts of their industry in our state. I live in…

Email Letters: Nov. 21, 2018

Rolling back EPA protections threatens health, climate Once again, the Trump administration is moving to put the profits of polluters before public health and the well-being of future generations. Last week the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency —…

Printed Letters: Oct. 23, 2018

Mitsch Bush as a record of working across party lines I am concerned about the false allegations against Diane Mitsch Bush which have appeared in our mailboxes and on television. She does believe government should do more to help people, but using…

Printed Letters: Oct. 7, 2018

League of Women Voters hosts ballot forum on Oct. 10 The League of Women Voters of Mesa County (LWVMC) and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) are partnering to hold a Ballot Issues Forum on the evening of Oct. 10. Both organizations…

Email Letters: Oct. 4, 2018

Tipton, lacking accomplishments, instead hypocritically attacks After eight years warming a bench in Washington DC, that followed years in the Colorado state house, to hear Rep. Scott Tipton's campaign attack his opponent, Diane Mitsch Bush, as a…

Email Letters: Aug. 16, 2018

Criticism of Trump is the press working against his supporters In all the news lately it speaks that Trump says the media is the enemy of the people. I know people including myself who send in letters to the editor. They mostly don’t even get put…

Printed Letters: July 27, 2018

Ask candidates their views on state’s energy transition I was glad to see Rick Wagner express a concern for land conservation in his most recent contribution to The Daily Sentinel’s opinion page, writing of the state’s renewable energy ambitions that…

Printed Letters: June 17, 2018

Oppose policy that separates families It’s time to stand up and reach out to fix a very inhumane wrong. Why are we allowing ICE to separate children from their parents? These people have done nothing ?wrong. They came to our borders and asked to be…

Email letters: June 15, 2018

Let candidates know how you feel about immigration laws I can't sleep. It's time to stand up and reach out to fix a very inhumane wrong. Why are we allowing ICE to separate children from their parents? These people have done nothing wrong. They came…