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In May, the town of Mancos received a letter from Montezuma County urging us to better manage the noxious weeds that have proliferated over the last few years on town-owned parks, and to encourage...
DATE: June 7, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Roseanne Barr’s appeal has so long eluded me that her further fall from disgrace has failed to dislodge even the slightest pebble of pity, though pitiful she is. It seems too facile to...
DATE: June 4, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on its way. Its epicenter would be Italy, which may threaten the rest of the world...
DATE: May 31, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – At a time when more than 400,000 children are in foster care nationwide, the city of Philadelphia is threatening to cut ties with Catholic Social Services because of the group’s policy...
DATE: May 29, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Those who find “globalists” to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo. In the remote region of a remote country, government agencies and international institutions...
DATE: May 25, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – We flatter ourselves into thinking that we live in a time of exceptional economic upheaval. The truth is that the present resembles the past. What we learned – and forget – is that a...
DATE: May 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – In hawking its iPhone X, Apple produced a pretty fly commercial. Fly as in stylish. Or, “totally lit,” as teens say. Apple’s “Fly Market” ad highlights how easy it is to pay with your...
DATE: May 17, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Have you wondered how students in Colorado compare academically to students in other states? There is a nationally recognized test given every other year to fourth and eighth-graders that has been...
DATE: May 14, 2018 | COLUMN: Joyce Rankin
Spring is knocking at the door so it seemed appropriate to focus this month’s column on the city’s park superintendent, Mark Boblitt. Mark heads a crew of two full-time and seven part-time...
DATE: May 14, 2018 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
WASHINGTON — Given the cornucopia of issues Americans have to select from each day, the recent firing and rehiring of the House of Representatives’ chaplain may not have bestirred many to form an...
DATE: May 7, 2018 | COLUMN: Kathleen Parker
If you live in Colorado, or if your business is touched in any way by any aspect of the agricultural industry, the ongoing national discussion about trade agreements and import tariffs should mean...
DATE: May 3, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Hats, specifically cowboy hats, been wearin’ ’em all my life. Started out with the little black, flat-crowned, flat-laced brim kid’s hat with a stampede string. I wore it proudly through my infant...
DATE: April 30, 2018 | COLUMN: Watch Yore Topknot