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Get a jump on renewing your Global Entry membership

If you have a Global Entry membership, which allows you to skip some of the airport lines, lucky you. But you might want to check your expiration date. A majority of Global Entry ...

DATE: May 10, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Iris DeMent raised on music

Follow your muse. We all should have that inner-voice, that thing inside us that hopefully guides us down our life path and pushes us into whatever direction we think we need to go. ...

DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Downtown Lowdown

Book shows how Reconstruction was reversed

WASHINGTON – Conservatives sometimes accuse the academic left of ignoring the good in American history and emphasizing the horrors. But in some respects, the telling of the Americ...

DATE: May 9, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

How to prevent the stomach flu: A recipe for success

The emergence of flip-flops, wind and milk chocolate-colored rivers are sure signs of spring in Southwest Colorado. With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, we’ll soon break fre...

DATE: May 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office

Uber’s IPO is a moral stain on Silicon Valley

In 2010, I received an email from an ecstatic employee at a startup called UberCab. “What our tiny company is doing for San Francisco right now is huge,” he told me. The employee’...

DATE: May 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Mailbox makes wife question finances

Dear Abby: I have been happily married for more than 40 years. Since my husband retired a couple of years ago, it has come to my attention that he has been getting mail at a separate pri...

DATE: May 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Poof! There goes another Infrastructure Week.

WASHINGTON – As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer sat down with President Trump at the White House last Tuesday to talk about an infrastructure bill, Trump’s a...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Our military is like cab owners in the age of Uber

Early on a Sunday morning in 1932, a fleet of some 150 fighters, dive-bombers and torpedo planes struck the naval base at Pearl Harbor. The ships lying at anchor on Battleship Row...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Are Christians persecuted?

Political and cultural elites in the West can’t handle a clash of civilizations

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Gold frames on traffic lights have a colorful history

We’ve been noticing the new golden-edged traffic lights hanging over intersections of U.S. Highway 160/550 east and south of town. Besides their improved visibility, what’s new and improved ...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Wrong or false? The difference holds consequences

When doctors disagree, one opinion is incorrect. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is set to decide whether an incorrect medical opinion is simply wrong or, in the legal sense, “false” ...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: Coroner's Report

How to select a tree for your landscape

Last spring, I wrote about wanting to wait to see how my property fared after four distinct seasons. Now, I feel like I have a better understanding of how water (or snow) moves (...

DATE: May 6, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Extension Office