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‘Residents must understand consequences’ of Roberts Village Camp Durango

Can you trust our county codes to protect from development you never imagined? We in the Animas Valley thought we could. We were wrong! The Animas Valley has something the rest of La Plata C...

Eh? Did you hear that? Or is it me?

In a recent column, I criticized the intentional film technique of “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan to make some of the dialogue inaudible. I am still stewing over this. And now I ha...

Months of constant contrasts

Aug. 16, 2023: If you’ve seen me in the last few weeks, you may have noticed a little spark that I’ve been missing for the past year. I’m coming out of my grief and sorrow. I know this ...

New tipping trend hurts those who need gratuities most

You know a trend has attained critical momentum when it is assigned an easily recognizable moniker. Chances are this one has recently worked itself into your vocabulary: Tip creep. It descri...

Return-to-office mandates pit spouse against spouse

The return-to-office tug of war is playing out not only between bosses and employees but between spouses. Corporate insistence that workers show up at the office sets up a conflict between t...

Silverman: An open letter to Trump’s prosecutors

Dear Jack, Fani and Alvin: Thank you for your prosecutions of Donald Trump. I want to help. Decades ago, I prosecuted many of Denver’s worst criminals. Your cases stir old instincts. Here ar...

‘Tax the daylights’ out of some ammunition

Had you been caught, said the Border Patrol officer, your behavior would have been treated as an armed invasion of the Republic of Mexico. He was addressing me and some friends after finding...

‘Vigorous standards’ needed to govern pipelines

An estimated 3 million miles of gas pipelines crisscross the U.S. When these pipelines leak, harmful pollutants are released that threaten our communities’ safety, exacerbate the climate cri...

America’s export of gun violence is a bipartisan outrage

President Joe Biden’s administration is inadvertently worsening the very problem it is trying to solve – the migrant crisis at the southern border – by facilitating a surge in gun-fueled vio...

Tough market for puppies, Rolexes since pandemic

What's a better bet? A puppy or a Patek Philippe watch? With central bankers still trying to wrestle with inflation, there is one category where prices have been plummeting – pets. Demand fo...

‘Reducing trees by logging won’t preclude wildfire spread’

The Lahaina fire on the Hawaiian island of Maui offers some insights into why the current U.S. Forest Service policy of focusing on fuel reduction is misguided. The wildfire began in grassla...

Need conservative voices at climate solution table

Discussion about climate change from conservative voices has been all over the map. On one edge of the conversation, we have former President Donald Trump saying: “I think global warming is...
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