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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. A few days later,...
DATE: Sept. 16, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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. Unfortunately, we...
DATE: Sept. 13, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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, they decided not to...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Paonia, a small town in western Colorado with mesas rising above it, wouldn’t green-up without water diverted from a river or mountain springs. The lively water travels through irrigation ditches...
DATE: Sept. 12, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If Donald Trump stages a come-from-behind victory in November, the Republican Party will become an oddity for the Trump Organization: the only entity it owns but does not brand. Not only will he...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As Donald Trump was about to accept the Republican nomination from the South Lawn of the White House with warnings that “No one will be safe in Biden’s America,” NPR was doing its part to make sure...
DATE: Sept. 9, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Colorado voters will soon have a historic opportunity to overcome a monumental injustice. If voters choose to say Yes to a citizens’ initiative on Nov. 3, wolves will again mingle on a continental...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I am a third-generation Colorado rancher, and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it’s a terrible idea to vote Nov. 3 to bring back wolves to western Colorado. It threatens ranchers like...
DATE: Sept. 5, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I’ve been thinking about the two families we’ve encountered over the past weeks. The Biden family is emotionally open, rendered vulnerable by tragedy and driven by a powerful desire to connect. The...
DATE: Sept. 2, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
You don't hear this from former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt or the usual suspects whose goal is to end many water diversions from the Colorado River, but it's true. Rural landscapes and...
DATE: Aug. 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As a longtime teacher who has heard every complaint under the sun about how horrible school is, how boring, arbitrary, irrelevant and unfair, I find myself somewhat taken aback by the fierce...
DATE: Aug. 28, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If Joe Biden isn’t careful, Donald Trump might have a new nickname for him: “Shutdown Joe” – after the former vice president’s biggest blunder in the campaign thus far. I’m referring to his...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
