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Richard Grossman
Position: Staff reporter

Join me in the celebration of my 70th birthday

I’ve lived more than half my life here in La Plata County and have reached a milestone. This month I turned 70. My only sibling, Clara, died too young at age 71, although our parents both li...

Time to officially repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery

After showing the film “Two Who Dared” about the Sharps, a Unitarian couple who saved thousands of children from the Nazis, Charlie Clements asked for questions. I stood and asked what curre...

Changed Puerto Rico has its population under control

This story started 30 years ago when we lived in Puerto Rico. Actually, the real beginning was 15 years before that, in Nicaragua. We returned to Puerto Rico this spring after a t...

Help stop the slaughter by keeping your cat indoors

Two months ago, I wrote about finding a family of cats along the trail in the Galápagos Islands. The beautiful kittens would grow up to be murderers of vulnerable animals such as the rare sp...