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Terrible dilemma faces the Great Basin

The long drive between Salt Lake City and Reno, Nevada, on Interstate 80 feels endless, the landscape timeless. But these basins and ranges of the Great Basin Desert are changing dramaticall...

Boyfriend’s head in the cloud

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend of two years, “Rick,” is addicted to social media – mainly the women on there. I’m not on any of his social media, and it seems like he acts like he’s single there. I...

Pondering the unthinkable shakes foundation

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my wife, “Sandy,” for 40 years. We married as soon as it became possible for us as a gay couple. While our relationship isn’t perfect, we are deeply committed and...

Abused spouse ready to escape

DEAR ABBY: I have been with my abusive husband for almost 30 years. I made several attempts to leave him, which resulted in him stalking me and threatening to seriously harm me and our child...

‘Talk about Biden’s age is code’

It was never my intention to become an expert on language and I make no claim to be one. But it is hard to spend a quarter of a century reading and editing written opinions without developin...

‘Changes happened at pace matched by early settlement days’

C.S. Lewis – “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when we look back everything is different.” The one constant in life is that things change. Times, technology, beliefs, peopl...

Sirius lights up the night

At red light, is it wrong to not go right?

Dear Action Line: Is a vehicle obligated to make a right turn on red, just because it is permitted in Colorado? I don’t like to turn right on red, especially when the car behind me is la...

Stewardship doesn’t sleep

Although it has been a late start to winter, snowflakes have finally started flying across the San Juan Mountains, and San Juan Mountains Association’s winter stewardship and education progr...

Spend, eat too much over holidays? Time to regroup

By now, evidence of the holidays is down to a pile of evergreens at Santa Rita Park, a random sparkle of glitter and the occasional piece of tape stuck to your floor. Settling back into life...

Hope in the New Year

As we move into 2024, many of us are feeling a loss of hope, of any expectation that things will get better, kinder, calmer, more sane. With our beautiful earth disintegrating with fires, fl...

Like the civil rights movement, disability rights movement persists

On Monday, we will celebrate the life and work of one of the most well-known and influential leaders of the civil rights movement. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders o...