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Friedman: With China’s technological ascent, Trump is right to press on the trade imbalance

One of the many dangers posed to our society by having a president who’s a serial liar – and who doesn’t behave like an adult, let alone a president – is that we more easily ignore him even ...

DATE: Jun 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Thomas Friedman

Man gets needed health care in a marriage of convenience

DEAR ABBY: I’m in a second marriage, which was only for the benefit of insurance so my husband could get insurance through my employer’s plan. We were together for many years before gett...

DATE: Jun 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Brooks: Selfishness makes enemies and destroys empires

This week, two of Donald Trump’s top advisers, H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn, wrote the following passage in The Wall Street Journal: “The president embarked on his first foreign trip with a c...

DATE: Jun 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Mom dotes on new boyfriend at the expense of her kids

DEAR ABBY: My wife, “Rita,” and I separated a year ago. Our divorce is pending. The man she’s seeing, whom I believe she was cheating with before we split, has a violent criminal past. H...

DATE: Jun 7, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Horoscope for June 7, 2017

ARIES (March 21 to April 19): Because of the placement of Mercury throughout the next few weeks, you want to get away on short trips. You also will be more interested in talking to people, p...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Columnists

CDOT’s highway project is coming to a grinding halt

Regarding CDOT’s “improvement project” on U.S. Highway 550 through town: How does grinding down the road surface “prolong the life” of pavement? Also, the project was supposed to get rid of ...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Kristof: What monkeys can teach us about fairness

Monkeys were taught in an experiment to hand over pebbles in exchange for cucumber slices. They were happy with this deal. Then the researcher randomly offered one monkey — in sig...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Parker: Trump’s accidental ‘call to action’ sparks action

WASHINGTON – A curious thing happened on President Trump’s way out of the Paris climate accord. American mayors, governors, corporate leaders and others immediately committed to meeting the ...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Man decries rampant false advertising on dating sites

DEAR ABBY: I was divorced three years ago, and recently went on some dating sites to find a possible companion. All the women I met had posted photos that looked nothing like them. It wa...

DATE: Jun 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby

Give plants extra attention to help them thrive

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: Jun 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Get Growing

Weakened deterrence: an invitation to instability

WASHINGTON — So what if, in his speech last week to NATO, Donald Trump didn’t explicitly reaffirm the provision that an attack on one is an attack on all? What’s the big deal? Di...

DATE: Jun 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Transgender dad wants to be daughter’s ‘second mommy’

DEAR ABBY: My former spouse and I are divorced and share a 3-year-old daughter. Soon after the baby was born, my ex came out as transgender and now lives as a woman. I have a...

DATE: Jun 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Dear Abby