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What I want for Christmas

I’m no different from my friends. I’d love to open the paper on Christmas day and see that world peace had broken out, hunger was now gone and the United States now had political parties tha...

DATE: Dec 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

DATE: Dec 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Day of infamy: Remembering locals who served at Pearl Harbor

Many local residents were not aware of the number of men from Southwest Colorado who were stationed or living at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, when it was attacked. The attack was...

DATE: Dec 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

The 2020 presidential field – oh, we have names

Until now, there were, by my count, 44 Democrats who have either expressed interest in a 2020 presidential run, traveled to Iowa or New Hampshire or otherwise managed to get themselves menti...

DATE: Dec 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Great Recession worse than Great Depression?

WASHINGTON – Here’s today’s economic quiz: Was the 2007-09 Great Recession more damaging than the Great Depression of the 1930s? Surely the answer is “no.” In the 1930s, unemploym...

DATE: Nov 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Paradise lost: We suffer, grieve when others do

WASHINGTON – When polarity defines us, it’s easy to lose sight of our common humanity. But all is not political, as nature increasingly reminds us. The fires in Califor...

DATE: Nov 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Can one GOP candidate take on Trump in 2020?

WASHINGTON – Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political choices. What are the handholds for a challenger...

DATE: Nov 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

FLC Village Aid Project helps developing countries

KeNeda Randall found healing from post-traumatic stress disorder through traveling to Myanmar with Fort Lewis College’s Village Aid Project and seeing a developing country through her ow...

DATE: Nov 18, 2018 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim

Three tips for surviving the holidays

Worried your willpower will let you down this holiday season? You should be, but read on because there’s still hope. As the holidays kick off, it usually means extra time with fa...

DATE: Nov 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Healing Nutrition

Dems will do all of these self-destructive things

WASHINGTON – In the spirit of the political season, I want to claim credit for the most STUPENDOUS, INSIGHTFUL and POWERFUL political strategy since Pericles bound the DELIAN LEAGUE into an ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Can we learn to live with wolves again?

In Colorado, we have 12 streams named Wolf Creek, yet officially, we have no wolves in our state. A reprint of a rare book helps to explain the loss of Colorado’s wolves, and the ...

DATE: Nov 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Mountainfilm on Tour bringing adventure to Durango

Durango Nature Studies to host festival this weekend

DATE: Nov 9, 2018 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim