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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

Finn: Mar-a-Lago, my old man and me

In early June, my dad and I stood on a Palm Beach sandbar staring at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club and resort. My dad didn’t dress up much for the trip. He was wearing his quintesse...

DATE: Jul 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

James: ‘Outlaw’ horses, skinny dogs and love as a verb

Every so often, someone brings me a horse that, at no real fault of its own other than the passage of time, has gotten big and strong and is used to doing whatever it wants, whenever it want...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: Collusion was incompetent, but it was very real

WASHINGTON – The Russia scandal has entered a new phase and there’s no going back. For six months, the White House claimed that this scandal was nothing more than innuendo about ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Brodhead: Neighbors, do the right thing and cut down those trees

Row upon row of blackened trees stood in front of it, burnt trunks to the right and left. There it stood as if nothing had happened. As I looked at the scorched earth beneath my feet, it see...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Ruddell: Healthy forests make a healthy economy and life

If managed to be healthy, forests are the best example of a naturally sustainable resource. Because forests provide a wide range of values including forest and non-forest product...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Keillor: Expect goodness and ye shall find it

We rode in a plane, a taxi, a train and a ferryboat, all in the first few hours. The plane landed with a bump and a screech at LaGuardia, the taxi was driven by a dark-skinned man in a turba...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Lawton: Time to change our response to traumatic events

I was in the Fort Lauderdale airport shooting. Remember that one? On Jan. 6, an ex-military man with a history of mental illness killed five people and injured six more in baggage claim at t...

DATE: Jul 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: No return on North Korea, the Rubicon has been crossed

WASHINGTON – Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road. On July 4, North Korea tested an intercontinental...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

McClellan: Verlena’s last summer, and hopes of seeing first snowfall

By Martha McClellan This is a gift we are receiving from Verlena Collentine, sharing her last months of life with us. Her journey through ovarian cancer (the “silent killer”) has ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

McClellan: Choice should be difficult, but not because of unnecessary hospital hurdles

Sixty-six percent of Colorado voters approved the End of Life Options Act last November. This is the law that allows physicians to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.