Columnists

‘The community needed him to succeed’

As the former sheriff prior to Dennis Spruell, I wanted to correct Pat Requena’s assumptions in her recent letter. It surprised me that a former CPA would publish financial-based business as...

DATE: Aug 1, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

A serious discussion on race — not!

LOS ANGELES — Is it possible to have a s-e-r-i-o-u-s discussion on race in America? In light of some of the reaction to President Barack Obama’s comments on race in the aftermath ...

DATE: Jul 29, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

First, we are Christians

What do you think is the greatest quote in American history? This is what I think. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed ...

DATE: Jul 25, 2013 | CATEGORY: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood

Pika may signal change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 24, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 23, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

High-altitude pika may signal climate change

As you start hiking through the talus, watching the clouds gather overhead, you hear it. A very distinct squeak. Did your dog find a squeaky toy hidden in the rocks? Probably not. Then you h...

DATE: Jul 22, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

One last sunset

Suicides in western national parks

DATE: Jul 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

The Tupperware model of selling solar

ARIZONA AND THE NATION It is puzzling, perhaps, that solar power accounts for less than 1 percent of the electricity generated in the United States. The cost of solar panels conti...

DATE: Jul 18, 2013 | CATEGORY: Heard Around the West

Wildfires

We can’t say<br/>‘no more’ anymore

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Praising a Biden on guns

Nuclear efficiency systems engineer Jeremy Preston moved back into his house in Delaware from Tennessee, where his license to carry a concealed weapon was also legal in Delaware. ...

DATE: Jul 15, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

Monuments ... blah. National parks ... ooh!

There’s been a lot of hoopla and public meetings here in Grand Junction, Colo., about turning the nearby Colorado National Monument into a national park. My opinion is simply: Why not? ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Treasures don’t have to be parks

As a close neighbor and regular user of Colorado National Monument in western Colorado close to Grand Junction, I suffered a sharp attack of NIMBYism when I heard of a 2011 proposal to turn ...

DATE: Jul 11, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

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