CRAIG'S ARTICLES FOR COLORADO'S INDEPENDENCE INSTITUTE

by James Craig Green

The following are various articles I have written over the last two decades for Colorado's free market think tank, the Independence Institute, where I am a Senior Fellow in Water Policy. I was first contacted by John Andrews, the first director of II, in 1990 to write an article on Colorado's water rights. Years later, I was contacted by Dennis Polhill on behalf of Jon Caldara to write an updated water rights article during the extreme drought year of 2002. Subsequent articles were mostly on water subjects, with an occasional July 4th celebration of the Declaration of Independence. Many of these articles are hard to find today if you don't know where to look, so I have put links to them here in one place.

Colorado's Independence Institute includes some of the finest free market thinkers in the nation, including its important work to protect freedom and property rights. Recently Rob Natelson, perhaps the most scholarly of Constitutional scholars on original intent has joined Dave Kopel, a leading expert on the Second Amendment, to provide an impressive legal team for promoting liberty at II through the legal process. They are active on several important legal fronts, including the current movement to constrain the scope of the federal government by the Constitution's Tenth Amendment.

My work for II has always been about passion for freedom and the promotion of market solutions over the stifling conformity of bureaucratic ones.



Craig's first paper at II for John Andrews
JUST DAY NO TO CENTRALIZED WATER PLANNING (1990)
(footnote links no longer work, but footnotes are still at the end of the article)



Craig's drought-year (2002) Water rights Primer
USE IT OR LOSE IT (2002)



A review of proposed legilsation in the 2002-2003 legislative sessions
DROWNING IN LEGISLATION (2003)



Craig's article about how markets in water are better than government rules
LET COLORADO WATER MARKETS WORK (2003)



Craig's July 4th article on the flag of American Independence
SORRY, LOST IN CYBERSPACE...
DON'T TREAD ON ME (2007)


Craig's criticism of Colorado media concerning a false "water crisis"
POLITICIANS, MEDIA DUPED BY WATER CRISIS (2006)



Another July 4th article celebrating Thomas Paine's contribution
THOMAS PAINE'S JULY 4TH (2007)



Craig's reply to a Farmer who says the State didn't do enough
SORRY, LOST IN CYBERSPACE...
THE FARMER AND THE WATERCOPS (2009)



Craig's article on solar jobs replying to Denver Post article
SOLAR JOBS' FAULTY ECONOMICS, EXAGGERATION (2009)


Craig's article celebrating the work of Montana's PERC
FREE MARKET ENVIRONMENTALISM (2010)


Craig's article on a destructive 2012 Colorado ballot proposal
DON'T LET COLORADO CONFISCATE WATER RIGHTS (2012)