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Grantham: Governor’s climate gambit reeks of Obama-style overreach

News accounts of Gov. John Hickenlooper’s recent decision to accelerate renewable energy goals for Colorado and join the “U.S. Climate Alliance,” aligning the state with international commit...

DATE: Aug 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Mistreatment of Jeff Sessions carries implications

WASHINGTON – Transparency, thy name is Trump. No filter, no governor, no editor lies between his impulses and his public actions. He tweets, therefore he is. Ronald Reagan was so ...

DATE: Jul 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Zeiler: Citizen lobbyists influence climate progress in Congress

At 8 a.m. June 13, I had my first view of the U.S. Capitol under a clear blue sky. I wasn’t expecting the strong emotional response I had. I stood before the Capitol dome with so many storie...

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

Brown: Coal rule rollback shortchanges treasury, lands and economy

Public lands are the fabric that hold the West and our mountain communities together, and what draws people to small towns like Telluride. Since his confirmation as secretary of t...

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

Zakaria: Amid Trump’s chaos, a post-American world emerges

NEW YORK – In London last week, I met a Nigerian man who succinctly expressed the reaction of much of the world to America these days. “Your country has gone crazy,” he said, with a mixture ...

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

Stromberg: Trump insults everything the Boy Scouts stand for

I don’t blame the Boy Scouts of America for inviting President Donald Trump to speak at the National Scout Jamboree. But I would blame the BSA’s leaders if they ever invited him back. ...

DATE: Jul 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: What to do for little Charlie Gard

WASHINGTON – One cannot imagine a more wrenching moral dilemma than the case of little Charlie Gard. He is a beautiful 11-month-old boy with an incurable genetic disease. It depl...

DATE: Jul 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Rosenberg: It is time to end secrecy around private prisons

In May, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Those prisoners will have to be incarcerated somewhere, which is perhaps the reason for the attorney general’s February memo reversing an O...

DATE: Jul 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Egan: The last best empty place in America

At dawn, the woodpeckers start in, hammering heads against tree trunks, and you wonder if there’s a better way for a bird to make a living. Oh, the avian migraines. Twilight lingers till nea...

DATE: Jul 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Lyons: Singapore system instructive for U.S. health care redesign

The Republic of Singapore government operated under the United Kingdom health care system until 1965, when it became independent from Malaysia. At that time, the government decided it wanted...

DATE: Jul 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brooks: getting radical about inequality

I’m not in the habit of recommending left-wing French intellectuals, but I’m beginning to think that Pierre Bourdieu is helpful reading in the age of Donald Trump. He was born in...

DATE: Jul 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Leonhardt: A summer project to nourish your political soul

Righteousness comes easily in these polarized times. We all have reasons for our opinions, and we tend to be surrounded by people who hold similar ones. The more we talk politics, the more c...

DATE: Jul 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman