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Eh? Did you hear that? Or is it me?

In a recent column, I criticized the intentional film technique of “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan to make some of the dialogue inaudible. I am still stewing over this. And now I ha...

DATE: Sep 8, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Months of constant contrasts

Aug. 16, 2023: If you’ve seen me in the last few weeks, you may have noticed a little spark that I’ve been missing for the past year. I’m coming out of my grief and sorrow. I know this ...

DATE: Sep 3, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Fishing in feeder streams

It’s a win-win situation in my book

DATE: Sep 2, 2023 | CATEGORY: Sports

Silverman: An open letter to Trump’s prosecutors

Dear Jack, Fani and Alvin: Thank you for your prosecutions of Donald Trump. I want to help. Decades ago, I prosecuted many of Denver’s worst criminals. Your cases stir old instincts. Here ar...

DATE: Aug 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Tax the daylights’ out of some ammunition

Had you been caught, said the Border Patrol officer, your behavior would have been treated as an armed invasion of the Republic of Mexico. He was addressing me and some friends after finding...

DATE: Aug 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Vigorous standards’ needed to govern pipelines

An estimated 3 million miles of gas pipelines crisscross the U.S. When these pipelines leak, harmful pollutants are released that threaten our communities’ safety, exacerbate the climate cri...

DATE: Aug 28, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘Reducing trees by logging won’t preclude wildfire spread’

The Lahaina fire on the Hawaiian island of Maui offers some insights into why the current U.S. Forest Service policy of focusing on fuel reduction is misguided. The wildfire began in grassla...

DATE: Aug 25, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Need conservative voices at climate solution table

Discussion about climate change from conservative voices has been all over the map. On one edge of the conversation, we have former President Donald Trump saying: “I think global warming is...

DATE: Aug 23, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

When loved one becomes ‘someone I never knew’

Kim Martin and Chuck Carson described their experiences as caregiver and patient living with Alzheimer’s or related dementias on Aug. 13 in The Durango Herald. Every one of the 6 million Ame...

DATE: Aug 20, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Apathy or outrage is truly your call

The state of college and professional sports is changing right in front of you

DATE: Aug 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Sports

‘Oppenheimer’ and an eel man with an emu

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s creation led to the Duck and Cover era. We who grew up during the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War had our own childhood worries. Thank goodness, we didn’t have ...

DATE: Aug 11, 2023 | CATEGORY: Opinion

A reunion on the Hermosa River

Some favorite spots are still in the altered Middle Fork

DATE: Aug 5, 2023 | CATEGORY: Sports

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