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Someone once said, “To teach is to touch a life forever.” Our teachers not only influence our students for a lifetime, they impact our community for generations to come. Our schools are educating...
DATE: March 22, 2018 | COLUMN: Education Update
I’ve been lamenting the news of the latest devastating round of layoffs at the already-decimated Denver Post. Well, I’m sick of lamenting. The question now is what can we do about it. After all,...
DATE: March 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
It’s the mid-term elections. The cycle begins with city/town elections on April 3, primaries in June, and the general election in November with candidates for county commission, state and federal...
DATE: March 15, 2018 | COLUMN: From the Mayor
The Utah Headliners Sunshine Week is here, and we who value government transparency are again celebrating the laws that allow us to know what our local, state and federal governments are doing. But...
DATE: March 12, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could develop around...
DATE: March 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 enough...
DATE: March 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 relative quiet on...
DATE: March 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 no end. After as...
DATE: March 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Watch Yore Topknot
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 18-001 will take aim...
DATE: March 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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, adopted...
DATE: March 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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 would be hard to...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
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. Throughout Montezuma-Cortez...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2018 | COLUMN: Education Update
