Guest Column: Under the Dome: Defining ‘rural’

By Bob Rankin
Special to the Herald Times
RBC | This year and for all of the five years that I’ve now served in the Colorado legislature, the words “rural Colorado” are often heard. This last session even produced Senate Bill 267, titled “Rural Sustainability” that was a broad omnibus bill that benefited some rural issues but also implemented the very political and long sought after conversion of the hospital provider fee to an enterprise…