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DATE: Jan 7, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Jimmy Carter seeded Colorado’s renewable energy leadership

Jimmy Carter had an underappreciated role in Colorado’s story. It started in May 1978 when he announced that the Solar Energy Research Institute in Golden would get $100 million in federal f...

DATE: Jan 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our view: 2024 in Letters

Letters from Montezuma County residents in 2024 covered a wide range of topics, unsurprising in this diverse county. Thoughts about the election, well, we’ll hold that for last. The use of N...

DATE: Jan 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Open fences are a waste

Last week when traveling to Durango, I noticed a simple mistake by someone that just didn’t make sense. South of the Farmington Hill on Highway 550, the deer fence has been installed through...

DATE: Dec 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A legacy of conservation: Honoring Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and 30 years of CCALT’s mission

As we mark the 75th anniversary of Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac” and approach the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, we find ourse...

DATE: Dec 31, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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DATE: Dec 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Merry Christmas, er, Happy Hanukkah, er Joyous Kwanzaa, er ...

So here we are, near the end of 2024 -- in “the holidays.” So will you be celebrating the Dec. 25 Christian birth of Jesus? Or will you be commemorating Hanukkah, an eight-day Jewish holiday...

DATE: Dec 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: A season for mercy

In a fun twist on the White House tradition of sparing the life of at least one turkey around Thanksgiving, the mayor of Florida’s Miami-Dade County has for the seventh year running issued a...

DATE: Dec 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

Red light runners

Now this is a letter I didn't want to write, but being a resident of Farmington, born and raised, I felt it was an obligation. Farmington residents, beware of motorists blatantly running red...

DATE: Dec 24, 2024 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Our view: Thanks to donors, foundation, SWCO Gives Day a hit

The Community Foundation serving Southwest Colorado is turning 25 in 2025 and it has a lot to celebrate. If the 2024 Colorado Gives Day was any indication, as it approaches its Silver Jubile...

DATE: Dec 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorials

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DATE: Dec 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Editorial Cartoons

Charity also means a charity of spirit

Welcome to December 2024, folks. The holiday season is upon us. It is the time of year in most traditions and religions when we turn inward, when we focus on family and friends. The winter h...

DATE: Dec 17, 2024 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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