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Friedman: How Trump made Putin’s Christmas

At the end of this banner stock market year, you can bet that major business publications will be naming their investor of the year. You can stop now. I have the winner, and nobody is even c...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Broken ankle changes Euro trip

DEAR ABBY: I had planned a trip to Europe with my friend “Elizabeth,” a friend of hers and Elizabeth’s daughter. The plan was I would share rooms with Elizabeth. We paid for the hotels i...

DATE: Dec 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Dennis Elkins returns for Christmas

Pagosa mounts a comedic ‘Tuna’

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Culture Gulch

Sexual assault brings up trauma

DEAR ABBY: I am estranged from my sister, whom I love dearly. The reason goes back many years. When I was 13, her husband got me drunk and molested me. While I never forgot, I did repres...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Kristof: Did genocide destroy this Rohingya village?

SOUTHEAST BANGLADESH, NEAR THE MYANMAR BORDER — “Ethnic cleansing” and even “genocide” are antiseptic and abstract terms. What they mean in the flesh is a soldier grabbing a crying baby girl...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Rankin: Preparing Colorado’s students for an unforeseen future

I attended the Summit on Education Reform in Nashville, Tennessee. Jeb Bush opened the conference and repeated a quote from the first conference in 2008: “The country’s school system is an 8...

DATE: Dec 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Joyce Rankin

Brooks: GOP tax bill a missed opportunity to help workers and the middle class

I am not appalled that the Republican tax bill cuts the corporate tax rate to 21 percent. Some of my liberal friends treat this as a moral horror and trot out all sorts of awful distribution...

DATE: Dec 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Affair involves husband, brother

DEAR ABBY: A year ago, my husband confessed that he was having an affair at work. Before it started, he tried setting “Velma” up with his twin brother, but she said she wasn’t interested...

DATE: Dec 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Krugman: Passing through to corruption

Unless something drastic happens, this will be the week Republicans ram through a tax cut that adds more than a trillion dollars to federal debt while undermining health care for millions. T...

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Parker: Collateral damage of “credibly accused”

WASHINGTON – As the #MeToo movement gained momentum the past several weeks -- and more than a dozen powerful men accused of sexual misconduct were suspended, fired or banished into the outer...

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Karaoke is not about talent

DEAR ABBY: My wife, “Karen,” loves to sing karaoke along with many others, most of whom are vocally challenged. Listening to some of them can be grueling when we go out. Karen knows many...

DATE: Dec 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Monument reductions disrespect culture, history

Earlier this month, President Trump displayed yet another example of blatant disrespect of Native American cultures and environmental conservation, stating his plan to dramatically reduce tw...

DATE: Dec 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Students on Point

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.