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Thank you, John McPhee

In the final part of John McPhee’s 1971 classic, Encounters with the Archdruid, David Brower and Floyd Dominy — both men I would have loved to meet — raft the Grand Canyon together. ...

DATE: Sep 9, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Responsibility vs. unreliability

Knowing and doing what is expected of me. A responsible person does not wait for a “to do” list. Responsibility is knowing within one’s self what needs to be done and carrying the...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Character Council

Washington dysfunction hurts rural Colorado

One sign of the dysfunction in Washington these days is that the conversations there have completely detached from the ones happening in kitchens and living rooms across Colorado and the cou...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Traveling and enjoying three weeks of heaven

Three weeks of heaven ... For the past three weeks, my family and I vacationed in Santa Fe and Taos, N.M., Flagstaff, Ariz., and Carlsbad, Calif. Put another way, over the past three weeks I...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Pastor Tom's Tidbits

Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?

From the Cortez Sentinel, March 21, 1929 CHICKEN OWNERS Notice is hereby given that henceforth chickens must be kept on the premises of the owner. Allowing chickens to ...

DATE: Sep 6, 2013 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequ...

DATE: Sep 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

With Labor Day behind us, I begin preparing for legislative session 2014. I sit on two legislative interim committees, one on water and one on wildfires. These committees start meeting frequ...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

More talk before action

As talk of U.S. military action against Syria escalates, let’s remember our history lessons. Recall that a decade ago, Congress and the American people were sold a story that Iraq...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

The age of happiness

Get this: Happiness among human beings peaks at age 23, tanks at 55, then peaks again at 69. So says a study by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Econom...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Don’t jump too quickly into Syria

There is little doubt now that President Obama is planning some kind of military response to what the administration says without equivocation was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian gov...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Both sides play this game

Old joke: two cannibals are eating a clown and one says, “Does this taste funny to you?” In a case of life imitating joke, political partisans squared off in the case of the Obam...

DATE: Aug 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Prevention helps children avoid sports injuries

School is back in session and children are back on the playgrounds and sports fields. They’re having fun, learning teamwork and getting exercise. And some of them will suffer injuries. ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Southwest health notes

Thank you, John McPhee

Responsibility vs. unreliability

Washington dysfunction hurts rural Colorado

Traveling and enjoying three weeks of heaven

Looking Back Which came first: the chicken or the chicken ordinance?

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

Colorado water, wildfires and recalls

More talk before action

The age of happiness

Don’t jump too quickly into Syria

Both sides play this game

Prevention helps children avoid sports injuries

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