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The key

What is white’s best move?

DATE: Jul 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Durango REI to feature EV charging, plans late summer opening

Dear Action Line, There appear to be electric vehicle chargers in the parking lot of the future REI location in Bodo Park. What kind are they? And when is this store supposed to ope...

DATE: Jul 14, 2025 | CATEGORY: Action Line

Washington’s budget cuts are hurting real people in our district

When policymakers in Washington talk about “efficiency,” “reforms” or “cost savings,” it’s easy to forget who pays the price. But here in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, the price is ...

DATE: Jul 13, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A uranium boom again across the Four Corners?

The end of World War II brought the Four Corners a uranium boom. Eight decades later, yellowcake may be making a comeback, but the deadly effects of radioactivity seem to be forgotten. In th...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Fixing mismanagement doesn’t mean selling off our public lands

Public lands should remain public; there’s no question about that. As someone who deeply values our public lands and the opportunities they provide for hiking, ranching and economic developm...

DATE: Jul 11, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

The gift that costs nothing – but means everything

If I were to ask you to tell me the greatest gift you have ever received, what would your answer be? You might tell me about something you received a long time ago or perhaps in more recent ...

DATE: Jul 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Lessons from the Sandbox

A few lingering seconds

DIAG 1 We the people on the Fourth of July rally to firework displays. Fireworks, like a musical rift, have their own cadence, rhythm, and beat. It’s often the pauses, that extra long f...

DATE: Jul 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Cleanup and community progress nine years since the river turned orange

In August 2015, an unplanned release of acid mine drainage from the Gold King Mine turned the Animas River bright orange. It looked horrible – but thankfully, this orange plume was less dama...

DATE: Jul 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

We owe it to ourselves, one another to pursue a different pathway to peace

Every experience of personal trauma comes with a story. Over time, that story becomes a wounded piece of who we are. Much of the mistreatment we experience in the world happens as we stumble...

DATE: Jul 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Spacehog

What is white’s best move?

DATE: Jun 30, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Colorado’s public lands can and must support both conservation and energy

Public lands are essential to Colorado’s identity, including economically, environmentally, and culturally. They support everything from hiking and hunting to grazing and energy production. ...

DATE: Jun 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Independence Day and the choice to be free

With the Fourth of July holiday approaching, I have been thinking about freedom and liberty. As Americans we enjoy both, but while they are often lumped together, they are not the same. A r...

DATE: Jun 26, 2025 | CATEGORY: Lessons from the Sandbox