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Siggins: Embark up 2018 with intention

It’s hard to believe that another year is in the books; 2017 flew by and it will go down as one of the most intense years in history. Despite what it may seem, there are more goo...

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

Schultz: Button, button, who’s got the button?

In the early evening of Jan. 2, the president of the United States tweeted this boast: “North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the ‘Nuclear Button is on his desk at all ...

DATE: Jan 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Atkinson: Breaking up with carbon, turning concern into action

According to Yale University’s Until that support and regulation come from the government, we can turn our concern into positive steps that reduce our personal carbon footprint, save money...

DATE: Jan 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Parker: With her new role, Gretchen Carlson wins again

WASHINGTON – If karma is a b---h, then justice is a beauty queen. After recent revelations that the CEO of the Miss America Organization and its pageant scriptwriter were talking ...

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

Dougherty: Coloradan’s health and environment should not be the casualties of politics

When a deadly combination of politics, favoritism and hypocrisy are guiding our country’s environmental policy, we risk damaging not only the environment, but the confidence of the people of...

DATE: Jan 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: From our Congressman

Sullivan: Polls show Americans distrust the media. But talk to them, and it’s a very different story.

The July email from Daniel Hastings, a Post reader who lives in Washington, was harsh: “You never have any intention of providing an unbiased or factual representation of the man or his poli...

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

Brooks: ‘The Sidneys’ part II - the year’s best long-form journalism

I was entranced by an essay in Emergency Physicians Monthly. It’s an oral testimony by Dr. Kevin Menes, who was in charge of the emergency department of Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas the nig...

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

Talbot: Republicans attack on conservation would shock their conservative predecessors

When President Richard Nixon asked my old boss at the Smithsonian Institution to loan me, then the institution’s head of environmental sciences, to the White House, I took on what may seem l...

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

Brooks: ‘The Sidneys’ part I - the year’s best long-form journalism

Those of us on the Decision Desk of the Sidney Awards faced a moral dilemma. Could we give a Sidney to an essay the title of which we couldn’t quote in a family newspaper? We dec...

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

Blanchard: The 2017 anxiety syndrome

In the months leading up to and during this first year after the 2016 elections, I have felt a strange kinship with Bob Dylan’s clueless Mr. Jones. You probably remember: ...

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

Grijalva: Ryan Zinke is destroying the Interior Department

During his confirmation hearing and throughout his time in office, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has presented himself as an admirer of Teddy Roosevelt and a believer in conservation. But le...

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

Scarborough: Perfecting the art of the self-deal

The political system is rigged for the richest insiders in America. When we talk about the insider, who are we talking about? It’s the comfortable politician only looking out for ...

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