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‘Electoral college system effectively disenfranchises most Americans’

Given everything that has happened in the last eight years, it is time to initiate a movement to rid ourselves of the archaic electoral college by means of an amendment to the Constitution....

Mexico is unraveling and nobody seems to care

A local resident, who I’ll refer to as Mario, recently asked me to look over his immigration file. After paying a lawyer more than $20K across five years, an immigration judge in Denver admi...

‘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...
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