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Finn: Mar-a-Lago, my old man and me

In early June, my dad and I stood on a Palm Beach sandbar staring at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club and resort. My dad didn’t dress up much for the trip. He was wearing his quintesse...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

James: ‘Outlaw’ horses, skinny dogs and love as a verb

Every so often, someone brings me a horse that, at no real fault of its own other than the passage of time, has gotten big and strong and is used to doing whatever it wants, whenever it want...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: Collusion was incompetent, but it was very real

WASHINGTON – The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there’s no going back. For six months, the White House claimed that this scandal was nothing more than innuendo about ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brodhead: Neighbors, do the right thing and cut down those trees

Row upon row of blackened trees stood in front of it, burnt trunks to the right and left. There it stood as if nothing had happened. As I looked at the scorched earth beneath my feet, it see...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Ruddell: Healthy forests make a healthy economy and life

If managed to be healthy, forests are the best example of a naturally sustainable resource. Because forests provide a wide range of values including forest and non-forest product...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keillor: Expect goodness and ye shall find it

We rode in a plane, a taxi, a train and a ferryboat, all in the first few hours. The plane landed with a bump and a screech at LaGuardia, the taxi was driven by a dark-skinned man in a turba...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Lawton: Time to change our response to traumatic events

I was in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. Remember that one? On Jan. 6, an ex-military man with a history of mental illness killed five people and injured six more in baggage claim at t...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: No return on North Korea, the Rubicon has been crossed

WASHINGTON – Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road. On July 4, North Korea tested an intercontinental...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

McClellan: Verlena’s last summer, and hopes of seeing first snowfall

By Martha McClellan This is a gift we are receiving from Verlena Collentine, sharing her last months of life with us. Her journey through ovarian cancer (the “silent killer”) has ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

McClellan: Choice should be difficult, but not because of unnecessary hospital hurdles

Sixty-six percent of Colorado voters approved the End of Life Options Act last November. This is the law that allows physicians to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Butcher: Small towns the place to challenge immigration policy

This month, Rosa Sabido, a 53-year old woman of “impeccable character,” became the 11th person nationwide currently in sanctuary in a church. The other churches providing sanctuary sit in me...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Gangloff: Shrink Bears Ears? Teddy’s rolling over in his grave

There isn’t a lot of “there” there in Interior Secretary Zinke’s recent report to President Trump of the Bears Ears National Monument - he recommends that it be shrunk, be broken into smalle...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Finn: Mar-a-Lago, my old man and me

James: ‘Outlaw’ horses, skinny dogs and love as a verb

Krauthammer: Collusion was incompetent, but it was very real

Brodhead: Neighbors, do the right thing and cut down those trees

Ruddell: Healthy forests make a healthy economy and life

Keillor: Expect goodness and ye shall find it

Lawton: Time to change our response to traumatic events

Krauthammer: No return on North Korea, the Rubicon has been crossed

McClellan: Verlena’s last summer, and hopes of seeing first snowfall

McClellan: Choice should be difficult, but not because of unnecessary hospital hurdles

Butcher: Small towns the place to challenge immigration policy

Gangloff: Shrink Bears Ears? Teddy’s rolling over in his grave

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