Keep Colorado a land of opportunity

Summer’s winding up with the start of back-to-school sales. Delicious Western Slope produce is showing up at the grocery stores and roadside stands. The last wave of summer visitors is cramm...

Wildfire was just the beginning

Over a year after the smoke was in the air from the Weber Fire, most Montezuma County residents have probably forgotten about the intense fire that burned all of Menefee Mountain east of Man...

They beat me to the punch

I had planned to gently explain to Larry Berger the errors in his diatribe against Sheriff Spruell. However, Bud Garner, Charles Thompson and many others have done the job for me, forcefully...

‘The community needed him to succeed’

As the former sheriff prior to Dennis Spruell, I wanted to correct Pat Requena’s assumptions in her recent letter. It surprised me that a former CPA would publish financial-based business as...

A serious discussion on race — not!

LOS ANGELES — Is it possible to have a s-e-r-i-o-u-s discussion on race in America? In light of some of the reaction to President Barack Obama’s comments on race in the aftermath ...

First, we are Christians

What do you think is the greatest quote in American history? This is what I think. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ...

Pika may signal change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

One last sunset

Suicides in western national parks

The Tupperware model of selling solar

ARIZONA AND THE NATION It is puzzling, perhaps, that solar power accounts for less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. The cost of solar panels conti...

Wildfires

We can’t say<br/>‘no more’ anymore