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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

Butcher: Small towns the place to challenge immigration policy

This month, Rosa Sabido, a 53-year old woman of “impeccable character,” became the 11th person nationwide currently in sanctuary in a church. The other churches providing sanctuary sit in me...

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

Gangloff: Shrink Bears Ears? Teddy’s rolling over in his grave

There isn’t a lot of “there” there in Interior Secretary Zinke’s recent report to President Trump of the Bears Ears National Monument - he recommends that it be shrunk, be broken into smalle...

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

Bruni: Chris Christie’s tutorial in hubris

We can scoff and sneer at those images of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on his beachfront imperium, or we can learn from them. As he took in the sun, he doled out a lesson, the same one tha...

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

Keillor: Blind man in a hotel room

Went in for eye surgery the other day, which reminded me of an old wheeze of a joke, which I told to people as they prepared the prisoner for execution: A man walked by the insane asylum and...

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

Brooks: Why did many working class voters support Trump?

Over the past two months, the Trump administration and the Republicans in Congress have proposed a budget and two health care plans that would take benefits away from core Republican constit...

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

Gerson: We must not let our founding ideals be forgotten

WASHINGTON – At moments of institutional conflict and uncertainty, Americans naturally turn to the Constitution. But at times of anger, division and national self-doubt, the best American le...

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

James: An old timer in a new age

I was born in Austin, Texas, back before Austin was cool. The Armadillo World Headquarters didn’t exist yet. Dwight Eisenhower was president and television (if you were fancy enough to own o...

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

County feels the pinch, libraries gain a reprieve, for now

Sunnyside Elementary School is more than a place where children in kindergarten through fifth grade learn to read, write, do math and navigate friendships. The school is also a community hub...

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

Quinlan: Independence Day - a good time to reflect on the kind of nation we want to be

There are few issues as polarizing today as the issue of what to do about the estimated 11 million people who live in the United States without authorization. The current administration has ...

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

Keillor: Midsummer partying with the engineers in Oslo

A splendid week in Norway and now it’s good to be back home, driving around town in my old beat-up Volvo and listening to The Drifters. Norway is a land of bicycles and public transit, lean ...

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

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