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City staff getting fitter, healthier – and less costly

Many look at the New Year as an opportunity to resolve to lose weight or become more fit. For Cortez city staff, wellness is not just a consideration on a list of New Year’s resolutions, but...

DATE: Feb 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

American left must find its voice on Venezuela

NEW YORK – The Trump administration faces a test in Venezuela. It must pursue a foreign policy that helps usher out the odious regime of Nicolas Maduro without triggering a backla...

DATE: Feb 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Fareed Zakaria

A Mesa Verde plate: New tags would help support national park

Instead of fake news, how about real news? Instead of political posturing and name calling, how about a project to unite us as a region and a state? How about a Mesa Verde National Park lice...

DATE: Feb 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

A time to keep silence

Words ... words ... and more words. We are inundated by them. Words written and words spoken. Words meant to convince. Words meant to manipulate. Words that express emotions. Wor...

DATE: Feb 13, 2019 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Proposed gun law threatens sport

I grew up in a small house on a dirt road along the San Juan River, with a father who hunted to put food on our table and taught me firearm safety. But today, fewer Americans than ever are ...

DATE: Feb 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

I was unplugged and overcome by a great hush

WASHINGTON – There is a movement dedicated to unplugging from digital devices on the theory that they are turning us all into slackjawed, empty-eyed, pasty-faced zombies. Having e...

DATE: Feb 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

Labor’s death reports were greatly exaggerated

Something funny happened on the way to the labor movement’s funeral. When Justice Samuel Alito and his antilabor colleagues on the Supreme Court handed down the Janus vs. AFSCME d...

DATE: Feb 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

Let’s clear up some confusion over sex ed bill

There has been lots of conversation on House Bill 19-1032, Comprehensive Human Sexuality Education. I have been asked, why in the world would you sponsor such a bill? The answer i...

DATE: Feb 5, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the State Senate

The ignoble death of Sheriff Wesley Dunlap

Editor’s note: Part 2 of this article will appear in the March 1 issue. Portions of this article were found in the issues of the Montezuma Valley Journal and from article written by Anna...

DATE: Jan 29, 2019 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Abert’s squirrels are friends to the ponderosa pines

Sometimes, winter in the forest can seem like there isn’t much going on – especially if, like me, you might be out there with a group of 60 excited schoolchildren. Wildlife often make themse...

DATE: Jan 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Maybe there’s something we can do on warming

WASHINGTON – On global climate change, I’ve changed my mind – just slightly. I’ve written about this issue for more than two decades, and my theme has been monotonously consistent...

DATE: Jan 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

What Sears and GE declines say about capitalism

WASHINGTON – General Electric and Sears have fallen on hard times, and that tells us a lot about U.S. capitalism. Both were once great enterprises -– symbols of American ingenuit...

DATE: Jan 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson