CSU’s newest graduate school: School of Global Environmental Sustainability
The BLM’s Roan Drilling Plan isn’t popular. This is one more thing which Republicans in Congress refused to allow any work to be done. The BLM has scheduled leases to go up in less than two weeks. If it does so without any further change to the process, Colorado could lose out on millions of dollars.
Colorado Roadless plan is going to get a review. Different policies by Presidents Clinton and Bush as well as Governors Owens and Ritter are all competing. And that’s just for Colorado. Wyoming is challenging President Clinton’s as well. It’s distressing that out-of-state corporations that want timber, oil, coal and gas won’t have to see the impacts of their activities. Meanwhile, Coloradans will have to deal with forests and mountains that would never be the same if Bush gets his way.
The minimum wage was increased just over a week ago. Paul Rosenberg quickly shows that it’s still not enough. About the only thing recent increases have done is slow the rate at which Americans fall into poverty. Nobody is being lifted out.
