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How Coloradans scored breakthrough on hemp

In 2013, I received a call from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell asking me, as a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, to support a pilot program to allow farmers to grow hemp. Knowing ...

DATE: Dec 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the U.S. Senate

No one deserves citizenship

On what moral grounds can we deny others rights, privileges and opportunities that we did not earn ourselves?

DATE: Dec 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

We’re unable to take your call, we’re dysfunctional

WASHINGTON – Calls to the White House switchboard during this Christmas holiday are greeted by the following message: “We apologize, but due to the lapse in federal funding we are...

DATE: Dec 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Trump is bad for Israel – and the entire Mideast

Suppose you’re the type of smart conservative reluctantly inclined to give Donald Trump a pass for his boorish behavior and ideological heresies because you like the way the economy is going...

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

These stupid, reckless, selfish drivers

Stupid reckless selfish drivers Recently, within three days, I was almost involved in two different automobile accidents as a result of two stupid, impatient drivers, by their imp...

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

They went West

Colorado keeps growing in the Front Range, which could be our silver lining

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Tax credits can help with insurance cost

Thank you for the recent article on the cost of health insurance which pointed out the acute challenge of high premiums in rural areas of our state (“High health insurance prices mean ill wi...

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Winston, the British lion, is still roaring

Thank you for publishing the review of the excellent biography of Churchill, by Andrew Roberts (“An antidote to idiocy in new Churchill biography,’ Dec. 20). I was one of the esti...

DATE: Dec 28, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Gary Markstein cartoon

DATE: Dec 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Best of 2018 long-form journalism about ideas

At the end of every year I give out the Sidney Awards to celebrate and recommend great examples of long-form journalism. I do it so that we can step out of the daily rush of event...

DATE: Dec 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Where is all this water coming from?

I found myself thirsty after reading “ There’s a 400-home subdivision planned for east of Bayfield. At Three Springs, they’re talking 2,300 homes, and in Twin Buttes, up to 655. In Edgemon...

DATE: Dec 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor