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This podcast perfect for mom-spying

On a recent Friday afternoon, a stylish woman in her early 40s showed up at a Brooklyn podcasting studio to tape what was essentially a three-hour therapy session, which was to later be cond...

DATE: Jun 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

9-R board, administrators, could learn from you

I want to thank community members for the generous outpouring you showed in support of our school children. Together, we raised $860 to support Miller Middle School kids with negative lunch ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Joe Biden, you should be proud of your crime billl

Joe Biden has been attacked by politicians on the left – and now, thanks to Donald Trump, on the right – for his role in shepherding the 1994 crime bill through Congress. One of t...

DATE: Jun 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

There’s a story about river flooding not being told

Flood season is here and sure to have an impact on people and the health of the Colorado River. River forecasters paying attention to Colorado’s banner snowpack this year are pred...

DATE: Jun 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Help us to help all of the bears

It’s that time of year again, when all of us at Colorado Parks and Wildlife are asking you to do everything you can to keep bears wild. I’m happy to say that communities in Southw...

DATE: Jun 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our cities are unlivable – blame wealthy liberals

To live in California is to experience the cryptic phrase that George W. Bush once used to describe the invasion of Iraq: “Catastrophic success.” The economy here is booming, but ...

DATE: May 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Stop facial recognition

San Francisco is right: We need to halt the technology at least until we figure out how it’s being used

DATE: May 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Vote Biden to cancel totalitarian call-out culture

This month, a video of Joe Biden saying he had “no empathy” for “the younger generation” that “tells me how tough things are” resurfaced on social media. The video was over a year...

DATE: May 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

No endgame for rivalry with nefarious China

“My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic,” Ronald Reagan told his adviser Richard Allen in January 1977, four years before he became presi...

DATE: May 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Dems will lose again if they run against prosperity

For more than two years, Democrats have confidently insisted the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump (a) would crash and burn; or (b) benefits only the few; or (c) was fake; or, failin...

DATE: May 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

There is just no way to avoid a county tax increase

In coming months, the La Plata County commissioners will be struggling to solve a difficult problem: how to put the county’s finances on a sustainable basis. The Long Term Finance Committee ...

DATE: May 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Sorry boys, next president should not be a man

According to pollsters and political reporters, a dispiriting dynamic has taken hold of the early stages of the Democratic presidential primary: Voters are discounting female candidates as u...

DATE: May 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns