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‘More difficult to be Jewish than ever before’

My friends in Durango ask me what it’s like to be Jewish. I explain about growing up in Kansas City, where I didn’t think I was different In kindergarten, a classmate called me a dirty Jew, ...

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Citizenship Act’s most important aspect – right to vote’ for Native Americans

In 1948, after serving in World War II, Miguel Trujillo from Isleta Pueblo in New Mexico entered the Valencia County Courthouse to register to vote. He was turned down even though he had ser...

DATE: Jun 2, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Wildlife not private property of lion, bobcat trophy hunters’

Andrew Carpenter (“Hunting, a valuable tool in managing lions” on May 14) believes Coloradans aren’t smart enough to have an opinion about recreational killing of mountain lions or bobcats i...

DATE: May 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘When we take the “I” out of legislating, using “we” instead, we proved we can get a lot done’

We. We accomplished a lot this year – our bipartisan success happened because we communicated, compromised and collectively decided how to best address our problems. Affordable and attainabl...

DATE: May 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Column: DHS track and field is in good hands with underclassmen

Upperclassmen showed them the way

DATE: May 28, 2024 | CATEGORY: Sports

Sovereignty or profit, it’s ‘complicated’

This past February I went to the Southern Ute reservation to attend a joint staff meeting. I had been Durango’s attorney for nine months. The tribe’s attorney sitting across from me stayed l...

DATE: May 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Cicero on politics: ‘Soon now cycle will begin to turn’

America is poised in 2024 to stain the history of the democratic republic our ancestors made considerable sacrifices to create. Both of our august political parties are promoting the candida...

DATE: May 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Biden searching for vaccine that would keep RFK Jr. off as many presidential ballots as possible

In case you missed it, the anti-vaxxer, conspiracy-theorist scion of the totally embarrassed Kennedy family was in Colorado recently to launch his bid to appear on the Colorado ballot for pr...

DATE: May 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A game of chicken over Colorado property taxes

There are smart ways to figure out tax policy, and there are dumb ways. Colorado seems to be trying to find the worst way. Several factors in recent years resulted in spiking property taxes....

DATE: May 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

BLM’s Public Lands Rule – A win for the American West and Colorado

April marked a historic paradigm shift for the Bureau of Land Management with the enactment of the Public Lands Rule. The rule ensures the BLM’s multiple-use mission balances conservation, c...

DATE: May 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Voting just the beginning of responsibility in a democracy’

Democracy is defined as that system of government where as many people as possible are enfranchised (empowered) to participate in all the civil rights society has to offer, including voting ...

DATE: May 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Wildlife quid-pro-quo: ‘Something to still think about’

The wildlife quid-pro-quo. It was a proposition advocated more than a half century ago by Willard D. Klimstra, then director of Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Cooperative Wildlife...

DATE: May 19, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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