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Thank Polis for more electric vehicles

I am thrilled to see that our newly elected governor, Jared Polis, has made the environment a priority with his executive order to call for more electric vehicles in Colorado. Tho...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Progressives, fat cats want open borders

Gov. Polis’ plan to give driver’s licenses to more illegal immigrants is ill-conceived because it facilitates the presence of illegal aliens in Southwest Colorado. The influx of i...

DATE: Jan 22, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Onset of Trump and Brexit show the West adrift

In August 1990, George H.W. Bush met Margaret Thatcher in Aspen right after Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait. The pair resolved not to allow Iraq’s “naked aggression” to stand,...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Colorado hunters, please take the survey

Every five years, Colorado Parks and Wildlife revises its big game season structure, which determines how many licenses will be issued for various species in various seasons (archery, muzzle...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Food fight: The president seeks the last mouthful

Denied Congress, President Trump stages his own State of the Union

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Tipton, Gardner are to blame for trash

“Joshua Tree National Park has been trashed in the shutdown. Now visitors are cutting down trees.” Rep. Scott Tipton and Sen. Cory Gardner, each of you is directly responsible for...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Western Colorado can thrive by adding ... wolves!

My visit to the Durango Wolf Symposium last November brought me hope – hope that a new restorative relationship with our natural world is in our future. Hope is not wishful think...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Wolves just do not belong in a settled landscape

I attended the November Durango Wolf Symposium and was disappointed by the orchestrated message that sanitizes the role of the wolf and misconstrues and deliberately omits information regard...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Editorial cartoon

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

It’s news vs. the president

Editors and reporters must learn to resist name-calling, shiny objects

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Frank Bruni

Rest of state must see our region’s needs

One of the first things I learned when joining the Legislature in 2017 was that the two committees I was most passionate to join, Education and Agriculture, met at the same time. ...

DATE: Jan 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State House