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Trump’s environmental policies endanger people, land

Since taking office, President Trump’s actions and proposals have put southwest Colorado’s environment at risk. The president’s new budget makes it clear that he will continue this assault i...

DATE: May 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Carmichael: President Trump’s Antiquities review endangers our American Stories

Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, designated by President Clinton in 2000, is home to the highest known density of archaeological sites in the U.S. Protection of this lan...

DATE: May 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Fulton: Unlikely leadership emerges for grand compromise for rural Colorado

In the closing weeks of the 71st General Assembly, we found the face of real leadership emerge in the most unlikely form. It was a team of disparate legislators that came together to solve s...

DATE: May 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krauthammer: The guardrails cannot contain President Trump

WASHINGTON – The pleasant surprise of the First 100 Days is over. The action was hectic, heated, often confused, but well within the bounds of normalcy. Policy (e.g., health care) was being ...

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

Koons: Time to learn to save lives using CPR and AEDs

Recently in La Plata county, citizen-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation and a close-by automated external defibrillator have brought three people back from cardiac arrest. This is unusu...

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

Egan: To Trump, the West is a separate, foreign country

In his three calamitous months in office, President Donald Trump has visited a property that is part of his business empire nearly once every three days. And while President Barack Obama had...

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

American story: Monuments are key to the West’s core values, heritage and economies

President Trump’s executive order that threatens the future of more than 27 national monuments directly challenges the worth of public lands around the country and especially here in the Wes...

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

Brooks: When the world is led by a child

At certain times Donald Trump has seemed like a budding authoritarian, a corrupt Nixon, a rabble-rousing populist or a big business corporatist. But as Trump has settled into his White House...

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

Kennedy: Education should be our state’s highest priority

Twenty years ago, students in Bayfield, Colorado stopped using the old Bayfield High School because it was old, rundown and unfit for students. But for the past 10 years, the school – built ...

DATE: May 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Krugman: Judas, tax cuts and the great betrayal

The denarius, ancient Rome’s silver coin, was supposedly the daily wage of a manual worker. If so, the tax cuts that the richest 1 percent of Americans will receive if the Affordable Care Ac...

DATE: May 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Bigger, heavier trucks on our highways a bad idea

While Colorado firefighters and emergency medical services personnel often face tremendous obstacles and circumstances, the pledge we make as first responders is that we will always give our...

DATE: May 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Let moms who need help know they are not alone

For many women, pregnancy is naturally uplifting, bringing with it the bliss of motherhood and the joy of nurturing a new life. But for too many women, pregnancy and the birth of...

DATE: May 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman