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‘I didn’t know’

I didn’t know. Mother had Alzheimer’s. I worked with people in the nursing home with ALZ. I helped people placing their loved ones. I thought I knew but I didn’t. I didn’t know each journey ...

DATE: Nov 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Steens Mountain, Oregon: Buckaroos, Basques and glacial gorges

Way out west where ranchers’ mailboxes are 50-gallon drums set on their side, I drove northwest of Winnemucca on a straight-line course to Denio, Nevada. As I crossed into Oregon the only tr...

DATE: Nov 12, 2022 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's Travels

Achievement higher purpose than great divide

When I worked for the Montezuma-Cortez School District in the late ’90s and early 2000s, schools unified our community. Student success was front and center. At least, that’s the way it felt...

DATE: Nov 9, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Out-of-control health care in dire need of reform

Over the past 22 years, the price of medical care, including services provided, insurance, drugs and medical equipment, rose faster than prices in the overall economy. Medical prices grew 11...

DATE: Oct 28, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Frisch vs. Boebert symptom of declining democracy

What happens to democracy when you lift the ceiling on campaign spending caps in a highly unequal country? The answer is simple. You get Lauren Boebert versus Adam Frisch for Colorado’s 3rd ...

DATE: Oct 23, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Serving as People’s Lawyer’

As Colorado’s attorney general, I am committed to serving as the People’s Lawyer. My job is to defend Colorado citizens from those who violate their rights, improve public safety and our cri...

DATE: Oct 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Do you feel safer today?’

“Do you feel safer today than you did four years ago?” That’s the question everyone has to answer this November when casting a ballot in the attorney general’s race. Our current attorney gen...

DATE: Oct 8, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Farmington Makers Market winds up with major turnout

Southwest Apple and Chile Fest closes arts and crafts season

DATE: Oct 5, 2022 | CATEGORY: Local First

What it feels like to find out you have Alzheimer’s

I had been noticing something was different about me when I, a lifelong reader, started avoiding reading instructions - recipes, manuals, long emails. I figured I was getting kind of lazy. I...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Housing crisis isn’t a crisis. It’s capitalism.

Absent a shift in our moral compass, our current form of free-market capitalism will transform U.S. society into a largely unrecognizable system defined by extreme inequality and rising pov...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Qualifications, experience, work ethic’

Since Rep. Lauren Boebert won the 2020 Republican primary election, she has made a mockery of CD3 while spending most of her time away from the district, working to boost her personal brand ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

KSUT takes deeper dive into history, mission

KSUT is grateful for the opportunity to take a deeper dive into the nuance of its history and mission, as a follow-up to this week’s story in The Durango Herald, focusing on our collaborativ...

DATE: Oct 1, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

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