Opinion


Our View: Clarification first on 1984 Act in annexation talks

Tribe, city reference same legislation

Our View: Secretary Griswold can show more restraint

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has not held back comments about Donald Trump, calling him an insurrectionist in tweets, on MSNBC and CNN. She’s connected her criticism of him to d...

My View: Notes from Rocky’s newsroom during Columbine

I worked at the former Rocky Mountain News in Denver when on April 20, 1999, at 11:23 a.m., a dispatcher on our scratchy police scanner said: “Shots in the building. Female down.” This would...

Our View: What will it take to fund La Plata’s roads and bridges?

If cultural references give perspective to when La Plata County’s 8.5 mill levy was approved in 1991, the movies “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of t...

Our View: 420 events mark evolution of marijuana movement

Before Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana on Jan. 1, 2014, cannabis enthusiasts’ annual, iconic holiday on April 20, to ritualistically gather in public and smoke marijuana at...

Our View: Kim Martin’s columns touch those affected by Alzheimer’s

Some of the most frequent comments we receive have to do with relating to local Kim Martin’s guest columns about her personal journey and experiences after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s i...

Our View: Sun reporter booted from state GOP assembly for doing the right thing

The Colorado Sun reporter Sandra Fish, who was kicked out of the state GOP assembly in Pueblo on Saturday, excels at the most unsexy forms of journalism – digging deep into databases and doc...

Boomer strikes back: ‘OK, Zoomers. I get it.’

“OK, Boomer” is the sarcastic retort to those of us born in the Baby Boomer era. It is a dismissive and derisive response to older people who express opinions that are seen as outdated, cons...

Our View: Thank you, Tom Stritikus

With his team, Fort Lewis College president made enduring gains

Our View: Food aid workers best of us humans

Not providing security for them is a war crime

Our View: Smaller art projects as worthy as larger ones

The surprise of public art – whether murals on drab cinderblock walls or recycled metal twisted into something intriguing – gives places some pluck. Even better is when unexpected artistic g...

Our View: Share what’s on your mind in poems

According to the Poetry Foundation, young people are naturally receptive to poetry and are its most appreciative audience. We don’t know how this concept was measured. But after reading some...
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