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Among the people I love is a sibling who works at Walmart cleaning toilets at night in a thinly populated part of eastern Oregon. She’s been there more than 25 years and has trouble saving a dime...
DATE: Nov. 13, 2019 | COLUMN: Tim Egan
In response to recent federal rollbacks of air quality safeguards, Colorado must act boldly and swiftly to adopt the next generation of methane and air pollution standards to protect air quality...
DATE: Nov. 10, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Reaching for verbs to describe Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final moments, President Donald Trump grabbed hold of “crying,” “screaming” and “whimpering.” Reaching for nouns, he said that al-Baghdadi died...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Frank Bruni
In 1994, Disney’s “The Lion King” was in theaters and on its way to become one of the most popular films in the world. Today, 25 years later, “The Lion King” is still in theaters, only revamped and...
DATE: Nov. 9, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I have lived nearly all my life in California, and my love for this place and its people runs deep and true. There have been many times in the past few years when I’ve called myself a California...
DATE: Nov. 8, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Is it possible that more than 20 Republican senators will vote to convict Donald Trump of articles of impeachment? When you hang around Washington, you get the sense that it could happen. The...
DATE: Nov. 6, 2019 | COLUMN: David Brooks
When Bill Clinton became president, his top legislative priority was health care. When Barack Obama became president, he first had to prevent a depression, but then he too turned to health care....
DATE: Nov. 4, 2019 | COLUMN: David Leonhardt
Two interesting things have been happening in the world of film over the last month. A relatively low-budget, no-special effects movie that places Batman’s Joker in a version of Martin Scorsese’s...
DATE: Nov. 3, 2019 | COLUMN: Ross Douthat
If I were Mark Zuckerberg – newfound defender-to-the-death of liberal free expression even if it includes outright lying except if there are female nipples, a would-be curer of all the world’s...
DATE: Nov. 3, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As I write this column we’re still enjoying beautiful fall weather – but I’m reminded I’m past the halfway point in my term as mayor. As you know if you’ve been reading my monthly columns and...
DATE: Nov. 2, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Colorado’s economy is one of the best – if not the best – in the country. But despite record corporate profits and tourism revenue, one out of four roads are in poor condition and hundreds of...
DATE: Nov. 1, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
A decade ago, it was conventional wisdom that the world would soon start running low on oil and that the United States would henceforth be at the mercy of an inexorable trend. Then the fracking...
DATE: Nov. 1, 2019 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
