Our View: When working together makes cents
A plan to have the Steamboat Springs School District oversee all of the South Routt School District’s technology needs beginning next school year serves as a model for the efficiencies Routt County’s public schools can achieve through collaboration.
Our View: You can't fix what isn't broken
There isn’t a pressing need for the Steamboat Springs Education Fund Board to change how it doles out money to Routt County school districts each year.
Our View: Not good enough
The Steamboat Springs School District should find a way to fund a shortfall in its prep sports programs next year without shouldering families with additional fees. The district’s proposed budget calls for a $25 increase in student activity fees.
Our View: Withholding severance tax revenues punitive
Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg’s House Bill 1356 is a bill so punitive and counterproductive that even his own party won’t get near it.
Our View: Failing grade for higher education
For many of students, college loan debt will mount quicker than their course credits. Enter the political debate about government-subsidized student loan rates that flared last week.
Our View: Hayden students deserve better
Hayden School District officials again have failed their students by rejecting changes to the school calendar that would provide more instructional days.
Our View: This pie should be eaten whole
There will be no shortage of special interest groups clamoring for their shot at soon-to-be-available revenues from the city’s 1 percent lodging tax. The challenge now facing the committee is to identify a worthy project.
Our View: Prep sports worth the money
The Steamboat Springs School District should not approve a 2012-13 budget without first dedicating an additional $30,000 to cover the estimated shortfall in the high school’s athletics department.
Our View: Slow recovery necessitates caution
Signs of a slowly recovering local economy are encouraging, but they certainly aren’t enough for the city of Steamboat Springs to deviate from conservative budgeting and spending practices.
Our View: District clinic decision risky
The Steamboat Springs School District’s decision to contract with an out-of-state company to operate a health clinic should have been postponed until the local medical community had the opportunity to offer its own proposal.
Our View: It's time for a fire ban
With extreme conditions already leading to considerable fire danger, local officials should place a temporary ban on controlled burns and other open fires in Routt County.
Our View: Revised Fund Board request on target
The Steamboat Springs School District did the right thing in revising and shrinking its grant request to the Steamboat Springs Education Fund Board.
Our View: Tax question demands more detail
There are many questions to be answered before voters will agree to tax themselves to put city officials' plan to move fire and police stations out of downtown Steamboat into action.
Our View: New First Tracks structure balanced, thoughtful
After studying the terms of the new First Tracks program, we think it protects some premium powder areas of Mount Werner for the general skiing public.
Our View: CMC offers answers to rising costs
When we saw the large headline on the front of Wednesday’s Steamboat Today that read “CMC to raise tuition,” it raised our eyebrows but only temporarily.
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