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Ross Douthat: Let’s talk about what isn’t President Trump’s fault

Recently, I wrote a column arguing that the blundering of the Trump administration, while real and deadly, may not be responsible for the bulk of America’s coronavirus fatalities. ...

DATE: Sep 16, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Youâ€™re the only news source that forgot

Regarding your issue of Sept. 11: Why in the world would you not have a single word about 9/11? Every other news source in the country did not forget it! ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: It’s Lauren Boebert who’s being untrue

My opponent in the Colorado District 3 U.S. House race, Lauren Boebert, wrote a letter full of lies (“ She can’t repeal the ACA and protect Coloradans at the same time. And she has not spel...

DATE: Sep 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Unrecycling

The reuse of plastic trash isn’t working – but will anyone listen now?

DATE: Sep 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: On climate, we can save our future now

Thank you to The Climate Reality Project summarized the four ways the climate crisis is impacting Colorado: Heat. Colorado temperatures have increased two degrees in the last 30...

DATE: Sep 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Send Sen. Cory Gardner back to Yuma

One of the benefits of having access to Denver stations on our satellite TV is that we finally get to see political ads for Colorado candidates. I am absolutely appalled that Sen. Cory Gardn...

DATE: Sep 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: The accidental president

Theodore Roosevelt, force of nature and future president, was the vice president on Sept. 14, 1901, when President William McKinley died of gunshot wounds inflicted by the anarchist assassin...

DATE: Sep 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Letters: Send Sen. Cory Gardner back to Yuma

One of the benefits of having access to Denver TV stations is that we get to see political ads for Colorado candidates. I am absolutely appalled that Sen. Cory Gardner seems to be running as...

DATE: Sep 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Letters: Many red flags for proposed RV park

Regarding “ Why are rural residents being asked to accommodate an enormous increase in traffic volume and noise? Why does Southwest Land Services owner and president Brian Kimmel decline to...

DATE: Sep 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Richard Grossman: ‘Natural’ disasters even more destructive in Africa

When I last wrote about the mega-drought in southwestern North America, we were in “extreme drought.” The rain started toward the end of July, although the drought hasn’t ended. Unfortunatel...

DATE: Sep 13, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

David Brooks: Seeing what must be done when a heart is empty

On Dec. 26, 2004, French author Emmanuel Carrère and his girlfriend were vacationing at a cliff-top hotel in Sri Lanka. Their relationship was dying, and, feeling out of sorts, th...

DATE: Sep 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Letters: Durango screws up 32nd Street again

Durango city officials have screwed up this 32nd Street property purchase opportunity again (“ This property should have been purchased back in 2009 when the city could have gotten all thre...

DATE: Sep 12, 2020 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor