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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

Petty: Academic ‘Hall of Fame’ sends students wrong message

I declined my induction into the Durango High School Academic Hall of Fame because the premises of this award completely disagree with the values it supposedly honors: hard work, character a...

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

Kefalas: Open records enter the modern age

On June 1, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 17-040, “Public Access to Government Files,” into law. This new law, that takes effect Aug. 9, demonstrates Colorado taking a meaningful...

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

Rebuilding the infrastructure of democratic values

WASHINGTON – If we have learned anything from the last few years in our politics, it is that civility is for suckers, that compromise is a sign of weakness, and that moderation of temperamen...

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

Sullivan: In Donald Trump’s America, a new list of grievances

Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, Amy Siskind took one of her occasional trips to Val-Kill, the Upstate New York home of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt. “I ne...

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

Hewitt: The GOP’s last chance to avert single-payer

The iceberg approaches for the Senate GOP’s ship, but unlike with the Titanic, there is plenty of time to turn. Republicans slowed the engines and thus the speed by postponing a vote until a...

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

Brooks: The GOP has a vision for government, but not America

ASPEN – There is a structural flaw in modern capitalism. Tremendous income gains are going to those in the top 20 percent, but prospects are diminishing for those in the middle and working c...

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

Romanoff: New GOP health plan is bad medicine

Let’s say your state faces an opioid epidemic. And a shortage of psychiatric care. And one of the highest suicide rates in the nation. Let’s say you live in Colorado. I...

DATE: Jun 27, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Rubin: Which GOP senators will walk the plank for a bad bill?

GOP Senate leaders are presenting to their members for the first time Thursday a concrete health care plan. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has done what Republicans (falsely)...

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

Schultheis: Saudi Arabia - wagging the dog

Mark Twain or Stephen Colbert at their most ingenious couldn’t conceive of a wackier scenario than President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia. Anointing the Saudi royal...

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

West: Inaccurate statistics skew views on rape

The Coroners Report, “Test case shows how viewpoints about a death can differ” (Herald, June 2), presents a misinformed perspective of the hypothetical death of a woman because of its focus ...

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