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Dad still doesn’t trust boyfriend

DEAR ABBY: I’m dating my grammar school and high school sweetheart, “Gary.” We’ve known each other since I was 6. (I’m 33 now.) In high school we dated for nine months and were in love, ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Krugman: Nancy Pelosi is a better leader than you realize

Normally, a party that gives away $2 trillion without worrying about where the money will come from can buy itself at least a few votes. But Donald Trump’s tax cut remains remarkably unpopul...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Paul Krugman

Celebrate master gardener Marye Jackson’s 90th birthday

Editor’s note: Get Growing, written by the La Plata County Extension Office’s Master Gardener Program, appears during the growing season. It features timely tips and suggestions for your...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Job loss ends office affair

DEAR ABBY: Back in 2013, a co-worker, “Jamie,” and I fell in love. Both of us were married to other people, but everything felt perfect. It was a feeling I never had for anyone in my lif...

DATE: Aug 16, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Parker: It’s a dog-eat-dog White House

WASHINGTON — No sooner had I ordered the 2011 book “Less Than Human” for a late-summer read than President Trump called Omarosa Manigault Newman a “dog” and a “lowlife.” Those tw...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Girlfriend does not want sex

DEAR ABBY: I’m 22, and my boyfriend wants sex, but I absolutely do not. I don’t feel sexual desire – not at all. I’m asexual, but he refuses to believe me and insists my “past relations ...

DATE: Aug 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Douthat: The white-voter strategy that actually worked

In the aftermath of the 2012 election, when just about everyone assumed Mitt Romney lost because he didn’t win enough Hispanic votes, election analyst Sean Trende produced a dissenting take....

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Ross Douthat

Greenstadt: Mountain bikes, too, can fit with our wilderness

First came the bare human foot, somewhere in Africa. Then, in no particular order, the moccasin, the shoe, the horse and saddle, boat and oar, the ski, the snowshoe and so much more. ...

DATE: Aug 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Fighting fire with law

Wildfires have already had a devastating impact on Colorado and our district this year, destroying thousands of acres and hundreds of homes. While everybody acknowledges that the...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

The pragmatic left, socialists included, is winning

On Tuesday, Rashida Tlaib, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, won her primary in Michigan, and she is now overwhelmingly likely to become the first Muslim congresswoman. ...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Franken-fauna only threatens gardens, not health

Here’s a photo of a deer taken north of town. Yikes! Do you suppose this deer has been camping on our uranium mill tailings or lapping up heavy metals from the Animas River? Sign me, “The Ve...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Added restrictions on flights may surprise you

Before Debbie Winsett boarded a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis to Washington, a flight attendant added a surprise restriction to her ticket. “While waiting to boar...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

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