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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

Bigots and the American dream

Yes, it is possible. You can pursue the American dream. And maybe even be on your way to achieving it by age 11. That won’t necessarily stop comments by racists or cretins who think it’s coo...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons

It’s time for butterflies and flowers

Southwest Colorado’s jewels sparkle in the summer

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Do you remember Greta Garbo?

My mom passed on to me along my nose, insomnia and a love for old movies. That’s a hint. Like the fictional Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Greta Garbo was big in the movies, and when she...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood

Faith in parenting: Trust, believe, expect

Parenting one of the biggest faith challenges in the Christian life. And if one is raising a challenging child, well, need more be said? Through the experience of parenting child...

DATE: Jun 20, 2013 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

It's time for butterflies and flowers

Southwest Colorado's jewels sparkle in the summer

DATE: Jun 19, 2013 | CATEGORY: Stewards of the Land

Your safety, your property, your own job

With recent wildfires affecting thousands of fellow Colorado residents, wildfire is likely to be on many of your minds. When you look around at the critical fire weather and dry forest condi...

DATE: Jun 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Hard choices for an uncertain future

Stepping onto the stage of the Sheridan Opera House in Telluride, Colo., his biceps bulging after chopping vegetables six hours a day for 21 months while in prison, Tim DeChristopher got a s...

DATE: Jun 17, 2013 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Leaving Silt behind

A rural town transforms as the West evolves

DATE: Jun 14, 2013 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Banana republic or Chicago mob machine?

My last column discussed “the end of the world as we know it” and I speculated that we were perilously close to that Walpurgis Night. Well friends I was mistaken. We are already there! ...

DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Larry Tradlener

The value of fathers

It’s no news to anyone that I disagree strongly with President Obama on just about any issue or policy position you can name. But I’m not the least bit uncomfortable saying I adm...

DATE: Jun 13, 2013 | CATEGORY: Cagle Cartoons