The Colorado State Open Thread is for those of us who like this state, its environment and those creatures within it, no matter whether they walk on two legs, four legs, three legs, six legs, eight legs, more legs, or zero legs (which includes the Colorado leg).
There are a couple of pieces of news I saw in the Denver Post today. If you have any interest in the Denver Post online, I would recommend it even if you don’t read an article more than once a week or two. If you get on their mailing list, I see specials come through occasionally where they’ve sold me subscriptions for a dollar a month for three, six or even a full year. Definitely worth a buck a month to me, as is 5280 magazine (and their digital editions). Even if you don’t have an email from the Denver Post to refer to, you can always call up their subscription department and ask for their best deal.
- Seven Colorado River Basin states reach a deal to save water, feds to consider (Subscriber / Pay Wall restricted) The AP story on the DKos front page is now old news — this is current.
U.S. Department of the Interior officials announced the seven-state deal Monday morning. As of last week only the lower-basin states of Arizona, California and Nevada had been on board but now the upper-basin states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have signed on too.
Water experts celebrated the seven states for being able to reach a water-saving deal but noted that it won’t be enough to solve the problem for the drying Colorado River Basin. Rather, they said, it might be enough to last a few years while the states, federal officials and Native American tribes work to find a more permanent solution.
“This is a short-term measure for a long-term problem,” Gage Zobell, a water law expert and partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney, said.
- 4-day workweek pilot kicks off in Golden.
This is going to start with the police force, but they do allow for the possibility that it might spread to all 250 employees of the town’s government.
This summer, the city will launch "The Best for Golden," a program trial that moves all police department employees from a 40-hour workweek to a 32-hour workweek without a change in pay.
The trial begins in July and will run through the end of the year. The city plans to track and measure the success of the program by providing updates to the community at the three and six-month marks. The city said if the trial is successful, it will look into expanding to other city departments.
Well, the invisible hand of formatting blindly (I guess I could go into the code, but why should I have to?) won’t let me format things the way I want to, so instead of having more fights with the editor, and considering how much I have to do before my dinner guests arrive, I will just conclude here. I look forward to what’s going on in your corner of Colorado. The floor is yours…
Oh, and I’m not going to dare Lauren Boebert to make news while I’m ignoring her this week or ever again. Nope, not me. Nuh uh.