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New Horizons will give best view of Pluto

Greetings, stargazers. I hope you enjoyed the recent planetary conjunction in the western sky. From our perspective, Venus and Jupiter are now slowly separating from each other ...

DATE: Jul 9, 2015 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Foreman from Durango died while trying to save miner

They were family men, one an experienced hard rock miner, the other a newcomer to a dangerous business who left a job in Colorado's oil patch so he could be close to his young family. ...

DATE: Nov 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: MT - News

Foreman from Durango died trying to save miner

Investigators rule out explosion as cause of deaths

DATE: Nov 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Local News

More talk before action

As talk of U.S. military action against Syria escalates, let’s remember our history lessons. Recall that a decade ago, Congress and the American people were sold a story that Iraq...

DATE: Sep 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Don’t jump too quickly into Syria

There is little doubt now that President Obama is planning some kind of military response to what the administration says without equivocation was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian gov...

DATE: Aug 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

House delays farm measure

Political posturing about who or what is delaying action on a much-needed farm bill came into sharper focus when the Republican speaker of the U.S. House refused to appoint members to a conf...

DATE: Aug 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Where is the outrage?

Outrage seems to be lacking from the American public these days, despite a recent explosion of evidence that our Constitutional rights are being undermined. Former CIA and Nationa...

DATE: Aug 12, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Electronic gadgets, attention span

A recent report from the Kaiser Family Foundation states that children spend an average of seven and a half hours each day staring at a screen, whether it’s a television, a computer or some ...

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Obama plan: Fight fires with funding cuts

As fires burn throughout Colorado and other parts of the West, destroying homes and lives, know that President Barack Obama plans to make things worse. The forest fire nightmare i...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

A shield law is needed to protect a free press

If members of the U.S. House and Senate are truly serious about cracking down brazen efforts by the U.S. Justice Department to intimidate news reporters by seeking their telecommunications w...

DATE: Jun 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

For public safety, regulation is necessary

All the facts are not yet known and investigators have not said with certainty what caused a deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. But we have learned since the b...

DATE: May 2, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say

‘Terrorism’ debate doesn’t help

The bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon were a form of terrorism, by most definitions of the term. The devices that went off near the finish line Monday were obviously designed to harm in...

DATE: Apr 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Others Say