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Bye: Returning guns to their proper role in society

Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could dev...

DATE: Mar 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Weiser: Standing up for fair treatment of all Coloradans

Miranda Ellis didn’t think she’d need a lawyer. Then she learned that fraudsters had used a phony check to drain her checking account of money she’d saved to pay for college. Joel...

DATE: Mar 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Here’s to hoping the passion of the young prevails

I was born in 1949. I was old enough but too immature, too sheltered and insufficiently civic-minded to join protests for civil rights and against the Vietnam War mounted by braver people my...

DATE: Mar 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Kent: Let’s have a conversation about gun control

Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enoug...

DATE: Mar 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Schultheis: None dare call it treason

Three or four weeks ago, I found myself marching in front of the San Miguel County Courthouse with a crowd of sign-carrying demonstrators. Most of the other placards dealt with w...

DATE: Mar 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Laszlo: Making, not breaking, sage-grouse recovery

If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of ...

DATE: Mar 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Gardner: Civil rights commission isn’t exempt from legislative oversight

In recent weeks, much misinformation and political hyperbole has been spread about a “Republican plot” to defund the Colorado Civil Rights Division and the Civil Rights Commission. ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bruni: Am I going blind?

They say that death comes like a thief in the night. Lesser vandals have the same M.O. The affliction that stole my vision, or at least a big chunk of it, did so as I slept. I went to bed se...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

A generation emerging from the wreckage looks forward

I’ve been going around to campuses asking undergraduate and graduate students how they see the world. Most of the students I’ve met with are at super-competitive schools – Harvar...

DATE: Feb 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Cooke: Transportation fix hits partisan speedbump

On the opening day of the current legislative session, Senate Republicans introduced a $3.5 billion state transportation plan. If approved by voters in November, Senate Bill 18-001 will take...

DATE: Feb 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Estes: Sodexo monopoly limiting for diners and Durango

At Fort Lewis College, there is only one option for food. According to The Independent, FLC’s student news organization, the food-services company Sodexo has a contract with FLC until 2024. ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bresnahan: Kit Carson leading the way with distributed energy

Kit Carson Electric Cooperative has become a target of unfair criticism because of its break from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association. We represent a threat to the current way...

DATE: Feb 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman