Rocky Mountain News: The folks from the Brookings Institute were in town this week to unveil their new study on the intermountain West: “Mountain Megas.” Five “megapolitan” areas – the Front Range, Phoenix/Tucson, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque/Santa Fe – are experiencing the fastest growth in the country. The federal government had better start paying more attention to our growing needs, the report says. “The federal government is largely impervious to the …