Opinion

Local management, new accrediting process

Chief executive officer of Southwest Health SystemI’ve been in my position at Southwest Memorial Hospital for a little over four months now, and would like to take this opportunity to update the...

DATE: Nov. 29, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Savor every second of Thanksgiving

This year I can’t think of Thanksgiving without thinking of Barry Manilow’s melancholy song “Tryin’ To Get The Feeling Again.”Google news items about “Thanksgiving,” and amidst the tofu turkey...

DATE: Nov. 24, 2011 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

‘Resources’ and ‘damage’

Do we really need a road between Cortez and Durango? Do we need a road to Groundhog Lake? I’m not sure we need paved streets in Cortez! After all, just look at the damage these things cause by...

DATE: Nov. 19, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The 50th anniversary of DWCD

The seven people who convened the first board meeting of the Dolores Water Conservancy District, 50 years ago, knew that the key to the future depended on being able to store enough water during...

DATE: Nov. 12, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Celebrating our veterans

On Nov. 11, we set aside a day to honor those who are willing to put themselves in harm’s way in order to give the rest of us the chance to wonder what’s on TV tonight or whether it’ll rain...

DATE: Nov. 10, 2011 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

MVIC water lease: What are the issues?

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company’s board of directors got a loud message from their stockholders last May: “we do not want to lease water to maintain instream flows.” Now the board is seeking to...

DATE: Nov. 8, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Wilderness: symbolic and practical

President Obama recently proclaimed September “National Wilderness Month.” His action could not be more appropriate and timely for Colorado. While our state contains many magnificent wilderness...

DATE: Nov. 5, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

The way Halloween should be

Not until it got dark!That was the trick-or-treating rule my mother set down every year. She didn’t want me to embarrass her by interrupting families still having dinner.I hated the rule. Tommy...

DATE: Oct. 29, 2011 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

‘Distinctive traditional uses’

This past summer, the Dolores Public Lands Office re-initiated work on the Boggy-Glade Travel Management Plan and asked for public input on how we could improve the plan. We received a great amount...

DATE: Oct. 25, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

The Occupy Wall Street protests make for great theater but in the end could turn out to be a distraction from the next big bubble, the public debt. Most of the news about our collective red ink has...

DATE: Oct. 22, 2011 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

The no-pledge pledge

Even if Jon Huntsman’s presidential ambitions are quashed by the Perry-Romney juggernaut, politicians in both parties would be wise to consider something Huntsman said during a recent GOP debate:...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2011 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

The needs of the young

As a retired social scientist, one of the principles learned from my career that has stuck to me the most, having studied this and that about humans and their culture, is simply stated: “Any...

DATE: Oct. 11, 2011 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

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