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Ford’s legacy transporting disabled vets

After being wounded during the WWI Meuse-Argonne Offensive in November 1918 then Capt., now Superior Court Judge, Robert Marx hosted a Christmas party in 1920. During the party, discussion c...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Veterans Forum

Much more than a meal and a bed

Bridge helps meet needs beyond basic shelter and food

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

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

Surrendering privacy from the cradle to the grave

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon p...

DATE: Jul 8, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Learning to live with wildfire

The enormous column of black smoke towered before me. As the Hammer Fire closed in on the backcountry workstation that I call home in the summer, fear spread from my hard hat to the soles of...

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Slouching toward Gomorrah

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed; and everywhere The ceremony of innocence i...

DATE: Jul 4, 2013 | CATEGORY: Larry Tradlener

Justice vs. corruption

Taking personal responsibility to uphold what is pure, right and true. Justice is any expression of personal responsibility to uphold integrity, whether the integrity of a legal s...

DATE: Jul 3, 2013 | CATEGORY: Character Council

Nonsensical approach increases wildfire costs

The following letter was sent last week to Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, by a bipartisan gr...

DATE: Jul 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Back home but still busy

It’s great to be back home, and I’m settling into the interim schedule, catching up with constituents in person and attending meetings on all sorts of topics around my senate district. Given...

DATE: Jul 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Life in the Legislature

Justice vs. corruption

Taking personal responsibility to uphold what is pure, right and true. Justice is any expression of personal responsibility to uphold integrity, whether the integrity of a legal s...

DATE: Jul 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Character Council

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

New laws in the name of freedom

COLORADO AND THE WEST The western Colorado town of Nucla only has about 730 residents, but its council is eager to tell them how to live — only in the name of freedom, of course, ...

DATE: Jun 27, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Ford’s legacy transporting disabled vets

Much more than a meal and a bed

Electronic gadgets, attention span

Surrendering privacy from the cradle to the grave

Learning to live with wildfire

Slouching toward Gomorrah

Justice vs. corruption

Nonsensical approach increases wildfire costs

Back home but still busy

Justice vs. corruption

Obama plan: Fight fires with funding cuts

New laws in the name of freedom

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