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Hollis Walker
Position: Opinion editor
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Krugman: The GOP is no party for honest men

According to a new CBS News poll, almost 60 percent of the American public believes that the current Republican tax plan favors the wealthy. Some people see this number as a sign that the pl...

Rynott: Natural gas as a bridge fuel – Has its time finally come? (Full-length version)

Beginning in 1821 when William Hart dug a 27’ gas well in Fredonia NY, persistence, perspiration and technological innovation has seen the United States become a natural gas powerhouse. ...

Gross: RAISE Act threatens to diminish our nation

I’m a first-generation Jewish-American whose parents escaped from Austria and the Nazi occupation just before World War Two. My father, an only child, was sent away by his parent...

Rynott: Natural gas as a bridge fuel - Has its time finally come?

Five years ago, the U.S. overtook Russia as the No. 1 gas producer in the world. With the advent of liquefied natural gas (LNG), the United States is rapidly propelling itself into the globa...

Lachelt: Transparency regarding environmental venture

As a county commissioner, I am charged with protecting public health, safety, welfare and the environment. Since my first campaign in 2012, I made clear I would do all I could to...

Krugman: State slogan aside, Virginia may well be for haters

Why is America the only wealthy nation that doesn’t guarantee essential health care for all? (We’ve made a lot of progress under Obamacare, but not enough, and the Trump administration is do...

Keillor: How much of our identity is due to our labels?

I went through airport security Monday and neglected to take my laptop out of my briefcase and place it in a separate plastic bin and was properly chastised by a TSA lady who put her hands o...

Brooks: Our culture war prevents progress on gun issues

The pattern is by now numbingly familiar. A lone lunatic murders a mass of innocent people in some public location. There is a heartfelt cry for tighter control on gun ownership. Then state ...

McLachlan, et al.,: Special session inaction hurts Western Slope

On Monday, the Western Slope Democratic caucus converged on Denver to join our colleagues at the state capitol for the first special legislative session held since 2012. The six o...

Larson: No more gerrymandering

Should voters pick their legislative representatives or should politicians pick their voters? Should congressional and legislative district boundaries – adjusted every 10 years after the Cen...

Jacobs: Get your “cowboy on” and celebrate our western heritage

Every October, when it is time for the annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, I can’t help but think of those Saturday mornings when, as a child, I would grab my stick horse and toy six sho...

Collins: Hypocrisy is rife in latest House vote on abortion

Our topic for today is hypocrisy. The scene is – where else? – Congress. This week the House of Representatives voted 237-189 to make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion on a woma...