The Haxtun-Fleming Herald - What can we reason but from what we know? -Alexander Pope

Governor Ricketts is an elected official who I have always thought does a good job — especially for agriculture — and someone that I tend to support. With that said, he blew it earlier this month when he made some bold and inaccurate statements regarding Colorado’s water.

The fact is, Colorado is in compliance with our South Platte Interstate Compact.

Our compact says that we must deliver 120 cubic feet per second to Nebraska between April 1 and Oct. 15. We do that and we do our best to not send them more than is required because of our needs as a State with both populous urban a...