EDITORIAL: The Great Western Water Grab, Part Three

Read Part One The website Water Education Colorado posted an interesting article yesterday, written by reporter Jerd Smith. Oops! 40,000 acre-feet of water slipped through the cracks at Lake Powell An agreement from 2007 requires the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to ‘balance’ with the shortages in Lake Mead and Lake Powell — the two largest…

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A New Worry: Consumer Spending Slowdown

By: As corporate profits have risen, inflation softened, and speculation about when the Federal Reserve would begin to lower interest rates, something of concern has been moving in the background — consumer spending.According to recent U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data, consumer spending represents approximately 68.9% of gross domestic product. Let that sufficiently slip and…

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