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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
The Aug. 14 editorial in The Durango Herald “Who benefited from the 19th Amendment? ” includes a number of errors about Carrie Chapman Catt and the impact of the 19th Amendment. Please allow me to...
DATE: Aug. 26, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As a respite from a spring spent under quarantine, my family booked a weeklong vacation last month in a cozy, remote house in the California desert. While the kids cannonballed into the saltwater...
DATE: Aug. 22, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Recently, a parent of an incoming first-year student asked me, “So, why is Fort Lewis College opening?” We never closed, I thought. While we operated virtually through the early months of the...
DATE: Aug. 20, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Recently, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York announced that it would remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan Health Center. The grounds were Sanger’s eugenic ideas and alliances, which...
DATE: Aug. 15, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Few walls last forever. Last winter, part of President Trump’s new border wall wavered toward collapse under the force of strong winds whipping through the twin cities of Calexico and Mexicali. An...
DATE: Aug. 14, 2020 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
