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I voted against Proposition 112 in the last election, a sweeping regulation on all oil and gas drilling in Colorado. It would have hurt the industry. But I did vote for Senate Bill 19-181. It has...
DATE: April 6, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Statehouse (OLD)
LONDON – Politico reported the other day that the French European affairs minister, Nathalie Loiseau, had named her cat “Brexit.” Loiseau told the Journal du Dimanche that she chose the name...
DATE: April 5, 2019 | COLUMN: Thomas Friedman
As the mayor of Durango, I have a positive outlook on issues that make a difference to the residents of my hometown. Historically, our town has burned many times and, like a phoenix, rises to be...
DATE: March 18, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
Now that John Hickenlooper has officially joined the presidential race, he has, let us say, just a few challenges to overcome. 1. Money. It should be noted that several candidates are now rolling...
DATE: March 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Mike Littwin
WASHINGTON – Humans do the strangest things. In two recent why-dunits, the curious have wondered why: (1) a successful TV star would allegedly orchestrate a fake, hate-inspired attack on himself,...
DATE: March 5, 2019 | COLUMN: Kathleen Parker
The last 10 days have been nothing short of epic in La Plata County as far as winter goes, with some locations seeing 80 inches of snowfall over the course of the last storm that closed schools for...
DATE: March 2, 2019 | COLUMN: From the Chair
It was the unintended consequences question that affected my vote this week. As one of the most difficult, but researched, votes I have taken this year, I voted no on the National Popular Vote...
DATE: March 2, 2019 | COLUMN: From the State House
WASHINGTON – The “Dreamers” lost again. As you will recall, the Dreamers are illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as young children. Most have grown up as Americans; sending...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2019 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
Marveling at the mysterious sanctum that his new book explores, French journalist Frédéric Martel writes that “even in San Francisco’s Castro” there aren’t “quite as many gays.” He’s talking about...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2019 | COLUMN: Frank Bruni
I first met people who denied the population problem in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development. They supported their claim that there was no population problem with the...
DATE: Feb. 23, 2019 | COLUMN: Population Matters
NEW YORK – In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements about...
DATE: Feb. 21, 2019 | COLUMN: Fareed Zakaria
Over the past generation, global capitalism has produced the greatest reduction in human poverty in history. Over the past 10 years, American capitalism has produced 20 million new jobs. The...
DATE: Feb. 19, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
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