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Another government shutdown is looming. Rather than quietly admitting defeat on his border wall stand, President Trump has punted the issue to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. He is threatening to...
DATE: Feb. 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Op-Ed
As political winds change, it appears La Plata County, which traditionally has bounced between voting Democrat and Republican, might be taking a turn for the deep blue. With unaffiliated voters for...
DATE: Jan. 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News
On Dec. 2, 2017, onstage in a cavernous auditorium at Boise State University, two of the three Republican hopefuls for Idaho governor, Lt. Gov. Brad Little and businessman Tommy Ahlquist, discussed...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Outdoors
The 2018 midterms swung Colorado into blue state territory as Democrats cinched a political trifecta in state politics. As Colorado Republicans gather on the political borderlands, they’ve got a...
DATE: Jan. 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News
In this dark time of the year, usually a pretty slow period for politics, I like to write a column cataloging my errors of analysis and prognostication from the previous 365 days (or sometimes...
DATE: Jan. 5, 2019 | COLUMN: Ross Douthat
Fort Lewis College students examined the factors that motivate young people to vote during a semester that featured a highly contentious midterm election. Turnout among young voters in La Plata...
DATE: Dec. 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Local News
Last week, the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate actually stood up to President Donald Trump on America’s role Yemen. In a 63-37 vote, 14 Republicans stood with 49 Democrats to pass a resolution...
DATE: Dec. 3, 2018 | COLUMN: Mike Littwin
DES MOINES, Iowa – Andrew Turner was driving Iowa’s Democratic candidate for state auditor back to Des Moines last month when a potential presidential contender called to make an introduction. It...
DATE: Nov. 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News
There was a letter in the Herald about the news media not being respectful to President Donald Trump. Well, duh, they are just asking pertinent and intelligent questions that the commander-in-lies...
DATE: Nov. 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor
Colorado’s unaffiliated voters turned out for last week’s election in record numbers and turned their backs on Republicans by wide margins, a survey conducted by a GOP polling firm shows. What’s...
DATE: Nov. 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News
Even with the midterms behind us, it is not hard to get many well-meaning Americans from across the political spectrum to agree that there probably never has been a more rancorous and divisive time...
DATE: Nov. 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Editorials
WASHINGTON – One lesson of the midterm elections is that economic growth is losing its power to unite the country and to reduce explosive conflicts over race, religion, ethnicity, immigrant status...
DATE: Nov. 13, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
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