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Jacobs: Get your “cowboy on” and celebrate our western heritage

Every October, when it is time for the annual Durango Cowboy Poetry Gathering, I can’t help but think of those Saturday mornings when, as a child, I would grab my stick horse and toy six sho...

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

Collins: Hypocrisy is rife in latest House vote on abortion

Our topic for today is hypocrisy. The scene is – where else? – Congress. This week the House of Representatives voted 237-189 to make it a crime for a doctor to perform an abortion on a woma...

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

Brooks: The philosophical assault on Trumpism

Establishment Republicans have tried five ways to defeat or control Donald Trump, and they have all failed. Jeb Bush tried to outlast Trump, and let him destroy himself. That fai...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Romanoff: Mending Colorado’s mental health

What stops Coloradans from getting the mental health care they need? You can learn a lot by asking them. That’s one of the things we’ve been doing over the past 18 months, as part of a state...

DATE: Oct 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Dougherty: Stopping the destruction caused by drug addiction

Ninety-one Americans die each day from an opioid overdose. From 2000 to 2015, more than half a million people lost their battles with drug addiction. It is estimated that in 2016...

DATE: Oct 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Leiter: Shutting out the public hurts natural resource management

A subcommittee of the House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing curiously titled: “Examining impacts of federal natural resources laws gone astray.” The title r...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Steltzer: Protecting people through the science of studying plants

The plants that cover our earth are vital to our national defense. We see their beauty and shade. But they also pump and filter water, clean the air, create soil and regulate flooding when h...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keillor: The gentle people shall prevail

I passed through Houston on Monday and found a lot of cheerful stoicism (“It could’ve been worse”) a month after Harvey had messed with Texas. Some boarded-up windows downtown, s...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kozak: Trigger warnings and censorship

I’ve long considered one of the pillars of a liberal arts education to be the active questioning of one’s own cherished beliefs, positionality and worldview. Learning happens by i...

DATE: Sep 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kozak: Trigger warnings, censorship and the Fort Lewis College experience [full-length]

In line with the American Academy of University Professors’ statement on trigger warnings ( Over the past five or so years, trigger warnings, whether found on course syllabuses or announced...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Schultz: Those who believe others are not really human

Before I started attending Kent State in the fall of 1975, I was a kid living in small-town Ashtabula, Ohio, on the northern edge of a county by the same name, which had lost 26 servicemen i...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Gerson: Wielding both ignorance and malice, Trump further divides the country

WASHINGTON – It is often difficult to determine if Donald Trump’s offenses against national unity and presidential dignity are motivated by ignorance or malice. His current crusade against s...

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman