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Past Newsletters
- INSIGHTS Issue: 1 – A Case for Public Entities Housing Their Own
- February 2023 News – From Poppy Fields to Housing Fields, Is Housing now an issue for The State to Solve?, Gas Stoves and Post Office Woes
- January 2023 News – Progress, Culture and The Trust Gap – Another Angle
- December 2022 News – Celebrating Thirty Orbits Around the Sun from Colorado
- November 2022 News – Muni Sales Tax Windfall and The New Sin Tax, Northwest Loan Fund (NLF) hosts State Conference, The NWCCOG welcomes new Fiscal Assistant
- October 2022 News – Federal Support Welcome, Antedotum Inc,, Vintage’s Steamboat Office, Energy Program welcomes new employees
- September 2022 News – Child Poverty, Vintage Community Conversation, NLF, Affordable Connectivity
- August 2022 News – Mobile Home Parks, Rural Communication, Energy
- July 2022 News – The Great Resignation, Granby protects small-town culture, water issues
- June 2022 News – REverse Demographics, Jan 6 committee uncovers hate speech to election workers..
- May News – Is State Losing Its Mojo and other news from Region Econ Summit
- April 22 – Roof tops or Tents, BAR-U-EAT, Combating Calamity
- March 2022 – 4 Day Work Week. THOR, Mountain Pine Manufacturing
- February 2022
- January 2022
- December – Tackling the Mental Health Crisis together
- November 21
- October 21 – Where have all the workers gone?
- September 2021 – Guest Authors Tina Strang and Erin Fisher
- August 2021 – Emails are not a job, THOR in the canyon, Admin Team
- July 2021 – Wages, Jobs, Going Back to Work
- A Mountain Migration Tipping Point? June 2021
- May 2021 – “Updates from the Water Quality & Quantity Committee – QQ” REVISED 9/21
- April 2021 – “Slow and Fast Thinking on a Public Board”
- March 2021 – “Grateful”
- February 2021 – “Complexity of Grief”
- January 2021 – “Protect this House, Our House”
- December 2020 – “Closing Down 2020”
- November 2020 – “Call to Action: Speak to Your Legislators About Cleaning Up SB20-2017”
- October 2020 – “Guest Edition: Sustainable Housing”
- October 2020 – “Winter of Our Discontent? We Got This?”
- September 2020 – “Have They Suddenly Become Satanic Villains?”
- August 2020 – “Conversations with Managers: So How ARE Public Employees Doing?”
- July 2020 – “The Art of Adding Value”
- June 2020 – “Use of Force? What Defunding Police Means”
- May 2020 – “What If It Isn’t Going Away?”
- April 2020 – “What is an Oath?”
- March 2020 – “The Lost Art of Hunkering Down: Can We Chill?”
- February 2020 – “Conservation Easements and Public Responsibility”
- January 2020 – “Cigar”
- From the Director’s desk… Guest Author Erin Fisher
COVID Lessons Learned

Covid Lessons – #5
Hosting a major event is like planning for a disaster. There is a saying among emergency managers that during an incident is no time for introductions, meaning you should know people you will need to know in a crisis well before a disaster is declared. Build your relationships before an incident. The accumulation of deliberate connections, finding common ground and mutual interest, “breaking bread” or whatever you choose to call it can look like a waste of time to some. It is not.2020 COVID Special Editions
- Special Edition 12 – “NWCCOG Celebrates Five County Public Health Directors as ‘Persons’ of the Year”
- Special Edition 11 – “Don’t Be a Turkey and What Going RED Does to One Sector”
- Special Edition 10 – “Only YOU Can Prevent the Spread”
- Special Edition 9 – “Elections: What Are the Actual Threats?”
- Special Edition 8 – “High Country Hispanic Community Hit Hard by COVID”
- Special Edition 7 – “In a Historic Moment, What You Can Do?”
- Special Edition 6 – “COVID Decimates Resort Census Reporting”
- Special Edition 5 – “Is Remote Work a Transformational Change?”
- Special Edition 4 – “Travel During a Stay at Home Order?”
- Special Edition 3 – “Next Looming Crisis: Preserving Voting Rights in an Extended Public Health Crisis”
- Special Edition 2 – “Municipal Video Conference Zoom-Bombed”
- Special Edition 1 – “May Town Contact Your Landlord? Towns Get Creative in Helping Businesses During COVID”