Go anywhere in Rifle within a three-mile radius of downtown and you’ll find a construction project in progress. Because of the oil and gas boom, this town is expected to double in size, from 9,000 residents today to over 20,000…
John Scalzo: Rifle’s Contrary Visionary
The Western Slope is changing faster than spring weather these days, and small rural towns like Rifle are losing their original character. Time is marching on, too, for many of the old-timers who shaped…
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The local 9HealthFair was in Rifle on Saturday and I had two objectives when I attended: First, as a reporter on assignment, I went to survey people about why they participated; second, I…
Northwest Colorado is teeming with activity from the oil and gas industry, but the boom has been adversely affecting roads, public services and housing availability. Some local government entities have tried to quantify the effects of the boom, but…
Representatives from Chevron, Oxy, Conoco-Philips, EnCana, Williams Production, Antero, Berry and Marathon, among other top oil and gas companies, sat at a horseshoe-shaped conference table on Thursday night. This boardroom wasn’t in Denver or on Wall Street. It was in…
Western Colorado has seen the extractive industry come and go, so U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Salazar, D-Manassas, hope to preserve Colorado’s natural beauty in unique places such as the Roan Plateau for future…
A severance tax hike proposal is certain to be on the 2008 ballot. How the monies are divvied up and who gets a piece of the action should voters pass the measure are still to be ascertained.
Certainly Rifle hasn’t seen the snow build up like Dillon or Durango, but it’s downstream in the Colorado River drainage area with snowpack depth ranging up to 150 percent of a 20-year average. With March typically the snowiest month…
Once upon a time during the oil-shale boom day in northwest Colorado, the federal government put some mineral-tax revenues into the Anvil Points Oil Shale Trust Fund to help local communities like Rifle and Meeker mitigate impacts. The feds froze…
Rifle is in the heart of the Republican Land. A party quorum in Rifle used to be two Democrats chatting in front of the post office. Since the 1990s, only three to five people had regularly attended Rifle-area Democratic…
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