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Good economic conditions in agriculture led to the lowest non-real estate agriculture lending in nearly a decade, John Deere demonstrates their first fully autonomous tractor, and the EPA will now consider the Endangered Species Act when evaluating new pesticides.

Utah’s public education system is expected to get another budget increase this year.

In the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School District, superintendent Risha VanderWey has been placed on administrative leave by the school board, and COVID-19 contact tracing has been suspended.

Utah lawmakers voted mostly along party lines last week to officially end the Test to Stay program in schools. And three people were found dead at a house in Cortez.

Several Colorado lawmakers are working from home this week. But party leaders cannot say whether the higher rate of VIRTUAL participation is because of a COVID outbreak at the Capitol. And two Montezuma County Commissioners will attend a meeting by the Republican Central Committee on Thursday evening in Cortez.

Montezuma County Commissioner Joel Stevenson has died, after a weeks’ long battle with COVID-19. And it’s taken less than a week for Colorado lawmakers to start engaging in some of the first shouting matches of their new legislative session.

Colorado lawmakers have introduced more than one hundred and sixty bills in the first week of their new session. And Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert has been elected by members of the House Freedom Caucus to serve as their Communications Chair.

At the same time a group of Colorado River users gathered in Las Vegas last month to discuss the future of water in the Southwest, another group was having a similar discussion. And Coloradans can now compare health-care costs for services at more than 100 hospitals and facilities across the state.

It’s the beginning of election season once again, at least in Cortez. The city’s 2022 election is this spring, on April 5. Candidates for city council are just lining up to run. As the process kicks off, KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods sat down with Cortez City Clerk Linda Smith at City Hall to get an idea of what this year’s municipal election looks like.

The Bureau of Land Management will reassess its policies on oil- and gas-rich lands near the Navajo Nation, surrounding Chaco Canyon National Historical Park. And the new year has brought plenty of snow to the Mountain West, pushing snowpack totals above average across most of the region.