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Religious doctrine on sterilization in way of good medical care

“Shapeshifter” I have to make you sick to make you well, The oncologist says, five months we’ll scour each cell of your abdomen clean. – from “Refugee” by Pamela Uschuk When I...

DATE: Dec 4, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Never too late to save a river

An old river-running motto says, “Old boaters never die, they just get a little dinghy.” And some never lose their passion for keeping rivers wild. Consider California’s Stanislaus River. In...

DATE: Nov 22, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Re-envisioning Thanksgiving with ‘redemptive possibilities’

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it’s worth revisiting some of the holiday’s most cherished expressions. In such a revisiting, we can discover not only the gaps between aspirations and l...

DATE: Nov 18, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Proposed solar project not right solution

Developing renewable energy such as solar is a good idea. Besides the environmental issues from using fossil fuels, it would be wise to get this country free of importing oil and gas from a ...

DATE: Nov 17, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

Desperately seeking relevance on Alzheimer’s journey

Oct. 12, 2022: Awful. This is what it feels like to have Alzheimer’s. I want to cry. I want to give up in frustration. I’m scared. I don’t know who I am. I played pickleball with people I’ve...

DATE: Nov 13, 2022 | CATEGORY: Opinion

‘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...