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No return on North Korea, the Rubicon has been crossed

WASHINGTON – Across 25 years and five administrations, we have kicked the North Korean can down the road. We are now out of road. On July 4, North Korea tested an intercontinental...

DATE: Jul 10, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Time for some crazy calls to your local paper

I'm not sure if it's the heat, summertime blues, or some confluence of the stars, but the funny phone call quotient here at the Pine River Times seems to have spiked recently. My ...

DATE: Jul 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Talk of the Times

James: An old timer in a new age

I was born in Austin, Texas, back before Austin was cool. The Armadillo World Headquarters didn’t exist yet. Dwight Eisenhower was president and television (if you were fancy enough to own o...

DATE: Jul 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Douthat: Going small on health care

Seven years ago, the Democratic Party found itself at a crossroads. Its sweeping health care bill was increasingly unpopular – the subject of angry town hall protests, the cause of a shockin...

DATE: Jul 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Samuelson: Good news - next recession may well be delayed

WASHINGTON – This is not your father’s inflation, and that’s good news. Business cycles often end when higher inflation causes a country’s central bank (the Federal Reserve in the United Sta...

DATE: Jun 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Krauthammer: Coherent American strategy needed in Syria

WASHINGTON – The U.S. shoots down a Syrian fighter-bomber. Iran launches missiles into eastern Syria. Russia threatens to attack coalition aircraft west of the Euphrates. What is going on? ...

DATE: Jun 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Education update: As teacher supply shrinks, Re-1 must compete

Nationwide, education programs are not graduating enough new teachers to fill the vacancies created by teachers who are retiring or leaving the profession for other reasons. That imbalance h...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education Update

Brooks: Let’s not get carried away

I was the op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal at the peak of the Whitewater scandal. We ran a series of investigative pieces “raising serious questions” (as we say in the scandal busines...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Farmers market offers chance to buy a share of a dairy herd

By Wendy Watkins The Cortez Farmers Market is in full swing, offering its usual fabulous array of local foods, produce, crafts, meats, canned goods, baked goods, flowers, music an...

DATE: Jun 22, 2017 | CATEGORY: Parsnippet

Douthat: This era is crazy, but not as crazy as we may think

The first thing to say about the attempted massacre of congressional Republicans on a baseball field in suburban Virginia is that the motivations of the shooter were unusual. By which I mean...

DATE: Jun 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

It’s summer and time to enjoy our recreational assets

Hooray for summer! Now that it’s finally here, this is a good time to highlight our Parks and Rec Department. They have a lot going on, and the facilities and programs they oversee add much ...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Samuelson: Trump is not destiny

WASHINGTON – It’s time to take a brief break from Donald Trump. Whatever you think of him, there’s no denying that he dominates the news cycle. We seem to assume that the nation’s future dep...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns