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Kent: Let’s have a conversation about gun control

Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enou...

DATE: Mar 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

How to make, not break, sage-grouse recovery

If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

James: When luck is just luck

Do you ever think about luck? Man, I do. It’s always there, mashed somewhere between love, snuff, horses and coffee. Good luck, bad luck, lots of luck, no luck; it seems there is...

DATE: Mar 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Watch Yore Topknot

Cooke: Transportation fix hits partisan speedbump

On the opening day of the current legislative session, Senate Republicans introduced a $3.5 billion state transportation plan. If approved by voters in November, Senate Bill 18-0...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rankin: Common core standards, are we ready for a change?

Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial math and English language arts standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Nevada Colony of the Dolores River Valley in 1872

Editor’s Note: This is the second of three parts of Erastus Thompson’s recollections of life in Montezuma County in the late 1800s. The entire article is in the Montezuma County Historic...

DATE: Feb 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Gerson: Billy Graham was consumed by grace and gratitude

WASHINGTON – He was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century – a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley. But this ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Haukeness: School district committed to all-around student well-being

When people think of school, they think mostly of classroom teaching. Other factors, though, can prevent a child from being safe, healthy and fully focused on learning. Throughou...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education Update

Hoyt: The next generation - America’s future farmers and ranchers depend upon training and education today

If you’ve ever gone to the opening day of your local farmers market only to find some of your favorite farmers aren’t in business anymore, you’re not alone. As a farmer myself, I...

DATE: Feb 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Protecting the sacred: Navajo Nation buys land at revered peak in Colorado

Navajo Nation owns almost 29,000 acres in two Colorado counties

DATE: Feb 19, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Sheek: Coming soon, an updated LUC and building code

In 2012 Cortez was the recipient of a Heart & Soul grant awarded by the Orton Family Foundation (think Vermont Country Store). The focus was to develop a strategy for engaging a...

DATE: Feb 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Thiessen:Trump throws away his momentum for ‘Peanuts’

WASHINGTON – Recently, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address that won the approval of 75 percent of viewers, including 43 percent of Democrats. Normally, preside...

DATE: Feb 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns