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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

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

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

Bigots and the American dream

It’s time for butterflies and flowers

Do you remember Greta Garbo?

Faith in parenting: Trust, believe, expect

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