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As I begin my 11th year in the Colorado General Assembly and look forward to 2021, I wonder what to expect. After 2020, the only thing certain is uncertainty. Last year started out as any other,...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Our holiday this year made me realize, again, how lucky I am. Our children quarantined for two weeks before visiting and we all had many delicious meals and hearty laughs together. We had money to...
DATE: Jan. 2, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Journalists in the national media simply refuse to ask President-elect Joe Biden tough questions regarding taxes, guns or his dealings in China via his son Hunter. Papers, including the Herald,...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In Oregon, the Klamath Basin wildlife refuges have fallen into their winter silence now. The huge, clamorous flocks of geese that fill the sky during migration have moved south. This summer, a...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2021 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In this time of rancor and ill-will toward our fellow man – wait a minute, isn’t it still the holiday season? – we can all agree on something: Merriam-Webster’s dictionary is an impartial source...
DATE: Dec. 31, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As Coloradans start to imagine rebuilding an economy after the pandemic, a newly released report suggests that, as of the end of 2018, many parts of rural Colorado still haven’t recovered from the...
DATE: Dec. 30, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Every five years or so I try to return to land’s end, the continent’s western edge, where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean – the final heave of the River of the West. I prefer to...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Seventy percent of the mountains in Colorado are the San Juans, right in our backyard. The “Magic Juans” extend from Durango to Lake City and Dolores to Saguache and beyond. Because of this massive...
DATE: Dec. 27, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Amid all the noise and drama of the November presidential election, readers may have missed the full significance of the recent Durango School District 9-R bond vote, also on Nov. 3. That voters...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Nearly everyone agrees that we face a fake news epidemic the likes of which we haven’t seen before. For years, American citizens have reported that they are more concerned about fake news than...
DATE: Dec. 21, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
“Family planning could bring more benefits to more people at less cost than other single technology now available ...” – James Grant “Either we reduce the world’s population voluntarily or Nature...
DATE: Dec. 20, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Nine long, deadly months into the pandemic, Americans report severe psychic distress. According to a new Gallup survey, Americans’ assessment of our mental health is “worse than it has been at any...
DATE: Dec. 17, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
