Kerr: When I saw the yellow envelope, I saw red
When I saw the yellow envelope, I saw red – and closed my wallet
DATE: Aug 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
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Stephens: Here’s what really makes America great, governor
Though Bill Clinton was a far better talker than he was an orator, at least one of his sentences should be carved in stone: “There is nothing wrong with America,” he said in his 1993 Inaugur...
DATE: Aug 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Roberts: Social media faces its ‘Alex Jones’ problem
Platforms have wished-and-washed for weeks now about whether Alex Jones of Infowars would lose his pulpit on their services. He’s off Facebook and YouTube, and Twitter has put him in timeout...
DATE: Aug 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Baughman: When it comes to saving horses, we’re all winners
“A horse is the projection of peoples’ dreams about themselves – strong, powerful, beautiful – and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence,” writes Pam Brown. ...
DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Elliott: My Durango is your Durango
My twin brother, Evan, and I got flipped off the other day by an elderly gentleman who thought we were in the way of his Durango – and no, he wasn’t driving a Dodge.
We laughed a...
DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Hickenlooper: The state wants to help even if you’re not Amazon
Barn raising. Nothing else conveys the spirit of the West better than the tradition of joining together to build a neighbor’s barn.
There may not be many barn-raisings nowadays, b...
DATE: Aug 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Greenstadt: Mountain bikes, too, can fit with our wilderness
First came the bare human foot, somewhere in Africa. Then, in no particular order, the moccasin, the shoe, the horse and saddle, boat and oar, the ski, the snowshoe and so much more. ...
DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
The pragmatic left, socialists included, is winning
On Tuesday, Rashida Tlaib, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won her primary in Michigan, and she is now overwhelmingly likely to become the first Muslim congresswoman. ...
DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Martin: We all joined forces to protect our forest
Something remarkable happened in my hometown of Flagstaff, Arizona, this summer: We agreed on something.
Despite today’s polarized political climate, this community of more than 7...
DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Despite racist tweets, Times hire merits a chance
In March, a liberal furor erupted when The Atlantic magazine briefly hired Kevin Williamson, a conservative writer with the National Review.
Several years earlier, Williamson had...
DATE: Aug 11, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Rigney: LWCF deserves permanent protection
At Osprey – a leading manufacturer of outdoor gear, employing over 115 people in the U.S. – we believe that adventure is open to everyone.
Nowhere does that feel more true than i...
DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
Robinson: Trump’s rhetoric is going to get someone killed
Everything you need to know about today’s Republican Party is summed up by a photograph from President Trump’s political rally in Ohio last Saturday.
Two men in the crowd look de...
DATE: Aug 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns
