Barry Poulson

Almost all Americans agree that the process to pass a federal budget has become more difficult than scaling Mt. Everest.

Colorado is a swing state, and Broomfield County, where I live, has an unusually diverse electorate, with roughly equal shares of Republicans, Democrats, and unaffiliated voters.

Over the past two decades, presidents from both major American political parties have used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to set aside 11 million acres of land.