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Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
Phone Number: (970), 375-4522

Brooks: How the left wins the culture war

I wonder if I’m wrong on the subject of guns. I started this latest round of the debate with the presumption that supporters of moderate gun restrictions are popularly strong but...

Douthat: Power to the parents

The teenage crusade for gun control has given new energy to an idea that I once supported fervently: Voting rights for 16-year-olds. My support peaked when I was that age myself;...

Bye: Returning guns to their proper role in society

Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could dev...

Weiser: Standing up for fair treatment of all Coloradans

Miranda Ellis didn’t think she’d need a lawyer. Then she learned that fraudsters had used a phony check to drain her checking account of money she’d saved to pay for college. Joel...

Here’s to hoping the passion of the young prevails

I was born in 1949. I was old enough but too immature, too sheltered and insufficiently civic-minded to join protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War mounted by braver people my...

Kent: Let’s have a conversation about gun control

Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enoug...

Schultheis: None dare call it treason

Three or four weeks ago, I found myself marching in front of the San Miguel County Courthouse with a crowd of sign-carrying demonstrators. Most of the other placards dealt with w...

Laszlo: Making, not breaking, sage-grouse recovery

If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of ...

Gardner: Civil rights commission isn’t exempt from legislative oversight

In recent weeks, much misinformation and political hyperbole has been spread about a “Republican plot” to defund the Colorado Civil Rights Division and the Civil Rights Commission. ...

Bruni: Am I going blind?

They say that death comes like a thief in the night. Lesser vandals have the same M.O. The affliction that stole my vision, or at least a big chunk of it, did so as I slept. I went to bed se...

A generation emerging from the wreckage looks forward

I’ve been going around to campuses asking undergraduate and graduate students how they see the world. Most of the students I’ve met with are at super-competitive schools – Harvar...

Cooke: Transportation fix hits partisan speedbump

On the opening day of the current legislative session, Senate Republicans introduced a $3.5 billion state transportation plan. If approved by voters in November, Senate Bill 18-001 will take...