Country Girls to hold reunion Aug. 23 The Country Girls Reunion will be Aug. 23 at the Lewis-Arriola Community Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a potluck at noon. All families ...

Many questions of public policy deserve serious thought and careful consideration of all sides of the issue. Others, not so much. An example of the latter is Amendment 68. It is a transpare...

For so long, most of us raised in Christian churches were taught the notion that heaven and God were out there, and life here had little connection except that you’d better be good or you would not ma...

WASHINGTON – Leave it to Barack Obama’s own former secretary of state to acknowledge the fatal flaw of his foreign policy: a total absence of strategic thinking. Mind you, Obama does deploy...

From thistles to choke cherries to dandelions, learn how to find and prepare edible wild plants in our area with Katrina Blair, edible plant expert and co-founder of Turtle Lake Refuge. This free walk...

In 1969 I was in combat in Vietnam. Five years later, back in the United States, I would hear of familiar cities falling to the Communists. By 1975 the 10-20 years of American involvement and death in...

Heading in to my job at the Four Corners Child Advocacy Center in Cortez, I got stopped again by the construction crew. The line of cars was already long and the lady in front of me was swearing and g...

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