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Onset of Trump and Brexit show the West adrift

In August 1990, George H.W. Bush met Margaret Thatcher in Aspen right after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. The pair resolved not to allow Iraq’s “naked aggression” to stand,...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Western Colorado can thrive by adding ... wolves!

My visit to the Durango Wolf Symposium last November brought me hope – hope that a new restorative relationship with our natural world is in our future. Hope is not wishful think...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Wolves just do not belong in a settled landscape

I attended the November Durango Wolf Symposium and was disappointed by the orchestrated message that sanitizes the role of the wolf and misconstrues and deliberately omits information regard...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Truly local food leads to a better economic truth

The local foods movement of the last decade or so is evolving in interesting ways. Nationally, farms and food hub (alternative distribution) organizations are surviving and thrivi...

DATE: Jan 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

This is what actual border security looks like

ON THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER – Other than the Korean Peninsula’s DMZ, there’s probably no border in the world as fraught with the potential for sudden violence as this one, known locally as ...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I hope state legislators remember bipartisanship

I recently ran unsuccessfully as the independent candidate for the state House here in House District 59. I’ve been asked why I’ve taken so long to write about my campaign. For me...

DATE: Jan 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

County’s district planning process is just a sham

Volunteering is usually a good thing. It helps other people and it helps you. There are so many needs in this area and if you have the expertise to help, why shouldn’t you volunte...

DATE: Jan 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Democrats have golden choices now for president

A few years ago, when I was self-employed and had recently had my second child, my husband went combing through my credit card statements, looking for tax deductions that I’d missed. ...

DATE: Jan 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Useless knowledge can beget brand new horizons

In October 1939, as Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin were plunging the world into war, an American educational reformer named Abraham Flexner published an essay in Harper’s Magazine under the ma...

DATE: Jan 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

No one deserves citizenship

On what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

DATE: Dec 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Trump is bad for Israel – and the entire Mideast

Suppose you’re the type of smart conservative reluctantly inclined to give Donald Trump a pass for his boorish behavior and ideological heresies because you like the way the economy is going...

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Do not equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

In a recent interview with The Intercept, Rashida Tlaib, the Michigan Democrat who in November became the first Palestinian-American elected to Congress, went public with her support for the...

DATE: Dec 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Onset of Trump and Brexit show the West adrift

Western Colorado can thrive by adding ... wolves!

Wolves just do not belong in a settled landscape

Truly local food leads to a better economic truth

This is what actual border security looks like

I hope state legislators remember bipartisanship

County’s district planning process is just a sham

Democrats have golden choices now for president

Useless knowledge can beget brand new horizons

No one deserves citizenship

Trump is bad for Israel – and the entire Mideast

Do not equate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism

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