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Finding the right angle

What is white’s best move? DIAG 1 Freestyle chess is now popular because of the abundance of knowledge about the standard starting position. It randomizes the opening and sidesteps memo...

DATE: Feb 17, 2025 | CATEGORY: Chess Corner

Bridges

DIAG 1 Why did the Bridge visit the counselor? It needed arch support. In this week’s position, white wins by constructing a bridge that allows its pawn to cross the board to its promot...

DATE: Feb 10, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

What’s the story on health care for Bloomfield?

A medical facility set up next to Kare Drug, but disappeared

DATE: Feb 6, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Hitting the ground running on behalf of HD59

Here’s another update from the Capitol! It's been a cold January, but there’s been snow on the ground here in Denver that’s needed on the Western Slope. Every year, legislators spend the fir...

DATE: Feb 5, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

It’s cold, now what do I do?

Recently, at a New Year’s Day football game watch party, I was asked by someone what I wear to fly fish when the air temperature is 32 degrees. The answer to that question was a golf shirt,...

DATE: Feb 2, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Inherding, ecologically informed grazing allows cattle to coexist with wolves

I’m excited for the future of ranching in Colorado and it’s because of wolves. Does that sound incongruent? It makes perfect sense, actually. It’s because cattle rancher Glenn Elzinga and hi...

DATE: Feb 1, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

This week in local history: A look back at the week Feb. 3-9

The following is a recap of local events for this time period throughout history. 25 years ago (2000) Citing lack of public support, members of the Farmington School Board Thursday shelved t...

DATE: Jan 31, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Don’t put public lands on the chopping block

American liberty and American wilderness are intertwined

DATE: Jan 29, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Keeping our sights on protecting the Dolores River Canyons, our Western heritage, and outdoor recreation economy

This fall, we visited the heart of the Dolores River Canyons in Western Colorado. I biked an old mining road that overlooked the Paradox Valley where Utah’s La Sal Mountains rose above the r...

DATE: Jan 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Though we cannot prevent lightning strikes or high winds, there are things we can do

It is mid-January as I am writing this. I look out at the pastures and crop fields here in the North Valley and I see the tans and browns that I have looked at since November. The tractors a...

DATE: Jan 22, 2025 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A slippery business

What is black’s best move?

DATE: Jan 20, 2025 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Bureaucracy is made up of people we know, and is not all bad

Bureaucracy is an example of a “devil term” in today’s politics. All you have to do is mention the word, and people think of waste, excessive size, barriers to getting things done, impersona...

DATE: Jan 15, 2025 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns