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Congress vs Nature: Scott Tipton’s forest proposal is really no help at all

We need a new word to describe that feeling when we’re both cross and bemused. That, at any rate, is how we felt when we read about Rep. Scott Tipton’s latest initiative. At a con...

DATE: Jul 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

They’re not the king’s lands, they’re ours

I just read Sen. Mike Lee’s (R-Utah) speech of June 29 at the Sutherland Institute outlining his three-point plan to transfer the public lands to private ownership. Senator Lee refers to our...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Party in the Park

With mudslides from recent rainstorms and ash flows from the Hermosa Creek drainage turning the water of the Animas River a strange color and killing fish, it is no surprise that we feel lik...

DATE: Jul 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Brooks: The murder-suicide of the West

When C.S. Lewis was a boy, his mother died. “With my mother’s death,” he wrote, “all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun...

DATE: Jul 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: David Brooks

Trump must hold Russia accountable

During the recent summit between President Trump and President Putin, President Trump demonstrated by word and deed what many of us have long feared: He simply does not care that a foreign p...

DATE: Jul 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Help Central Americans to stay home

I make a trip to Central America about six times a year and I have been going there for many years; so I am pretty familiar with their problems and understand why so many are trying to immig...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Whither Wheeler?

Many conservationists, environmentalists and public land advocates let out an it’s-about-time sigh of relief when Scott Pruitt resigned as chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Goldberg: Trump shows the world he is Putin’s lackey

No matter how low your expectations for the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Monday, it was hard not to be staggered by the American president’s toady, slavish performance. ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Congress needs to pass an inclusive paid leave bill

Congress is finally discussing paid leave. That’s great, but there are good and bad proposals. Family caregivers like me will be excluded if a bill provides only parental, not full family an...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Kristof: We may be able to get this man off death row

The horror began with a nighttime home invasion and the stabbings of a white family, and was compounded when sheriff’s deputies arrested and framed a black man for murder. That’s ...

DATE: Jul 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nicholas Kristof

Are people who fault train blameless?

The people who blame the train for the fire may be the same people who threw a burning cigarette out the window from the train here or elsewhere on a road or walked along the track or road o...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Donâ€™t be piggy with apricots, please

Amazingly enough, there is an apricot crop in this year of drought and early frost. They may not be as excellent as usual, but still an amazing bounty is to be found on many local trees. ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.