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Dean Brookie: Durango has opportunity to shape its own recovery

During the past seven years, I have been honored to serve on Durango City Council, and I am humbled to start my second term as mayor. I would like to thank Melissa Youssef for her...

DATE: May 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Paul Griffin: Fossil fuels are a hidden weapon in COVID-19 fight

There has always been an inherent danger in the notion of abandoning fossil fuels, especially proposals by governments and institutions to clear their environmental conscience by divesting f...

DATE: May 11, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Horace Cooper: Price hikes not the way to reform Postal Service

It is an open secret in Washington that the United States Postal Service needs reform. But recent calls for government-mandated price hikes should not be one of them. Like any business facin...

DATE: May 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Duane Highley: Tri-State has delivered on its promises to LPEA

Last May, I had the privilege to attend La Plata Electric Association’s annual meeting, where I was humbled by the opportunity to share my vision for Tri-State’s transformation with LPEA’s m...

DATE: May 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Clyde Church: County businesses will be altered after pandemic

The past month of social distancing in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19 has been one of the most challenging periods our community has ever faced. All of us have been affected in...

DATE: May 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bret Stephens: Biden, Reade and the presumption of innocence

Regarding Tara Reade’s allegation that she was sexually assaulted by Joe Biden in 1993, and what the allegation could mean for Democrats this fall, some stock phrases come to mind. Hoisted o...

DATE: May 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Jonathan Thompson: COVID kills oil industry – and it may not return

In early January – which seems like a lifetime ago in the age of COVID-19 – President Donald J. Trump crowed about the United States’ new status as a net-exporter of petroleum. He...

DATE: May 2, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

John Hickenlooper: The ACA is helping Colorado fight COVID – but it’s still under siege

Health care is a right, not a privilege. With Colorado facing an economic and public health crisis unlike anything in our history, access to affordable health care is more important than eve...

DATE: Apr 29, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

David Brooks: Our age of coddling is over, and good riddance

Over the past decades, a tide of “safetyism” has crept over American society. As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt put it in their book “The Coddling of the American Mind,” this i...

DATE: Apr 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Tom Stritikus: Fort Lewis can do its part – and it will need help

In January, I told the Colorado Legislature that I feel like I have the best job on the planet. I get to live, I said, in a wonderful community and work alongside outstanding professionals f...

DATE: Apr 25, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Scott Tipton: Democrats held up pandemic relief

The COVID-19 outbreak is unlike any other crisis we’ve faced, and it is testing the resiliency of communities across the nation. In Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, like in...

DATE: Apr 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Frank Bruni: A politician takes a sledgehammer to his own ego

In the market for inspiration? Try the parable of the blind man who gave up political glory for Jesus. He quickly climbed the rungs of power, became the lieutenant governor of the...

DATE: Apr 18, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns