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Busy year ahead for city with water, other issues

New Year’s is traditionally a time to reflect on where we’ve been and contemplate where we are going. In that spirit, I want to share some city highlights for 2018 and provide a preview of 2...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Trampling barriers: Mancos artist’s bronze sculpture honors fall of Berlin Wall

President George H.W. Bush helped reunite East and West Germany when the Berlin Wall fell, and a Mancos artist cast a 7-ton bronze sculpture commemorating the event. For 28 years,...

DATE: Jan 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

This asterism is a highlight of the winter sky

Greetings, Stargazers. I have to say that comet 46P/Wirtanen last month exceeded my expectations. By that, I simply mean I could see it with my naked eye, even if it was just bare...

DATE: Jan 12, 2019 | CATEGORY: Others Say

Resolve to be curious about the natural world

We’re almost to mid-January. How are those New Year’s resolutions going? I’m still vacillating over whether or not to actually make any resolutions. I have a number of goals for ...

DATE: Jan 11, 2019 | CATEGORY: Powerful solutions

Fort Lewis College women frustrated at Chadron State

Late chances don’t fall for FLC

DATE: Jan 8, 2019 | CATEGORY: Above the Rim

Evangelicals falsely believe Trump is a champion

WASHINGTON – By all indications, the reluctant support by white evangelicals for Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton in 2016 has solidified into something like devotion. In his a...

DATE: Jan 7, 2019 | CATEGORY: Michael Gerson

It’s a new year ... now what?

Christmas has come and gone, and as usual, most of the items on my wish list are still there. We don’t have world peace, hunger is still around, happy political parties are still...

DATE: Jan 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Writers on the Range

Leaving White House, they say ‘Don’t blame me’

WASHINGTON – One by one they leap – or are pushed – from the foundering USS Trump, each offering a variation of the same plea: Don’t blame me. Comes now retired Gen. John Kelly, t...

DATE: Jan 3, 2019 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

The rough route to Mesa Verde in the early 1900s

As interest in ancient dwellings increased, tourists arrived by Oldsmobiles, in caravans, by the hundreds

DATE: Jan 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Trump finally found conspiracy he doesn’t believe

WASHINGTON – So President Trump finally found a conspiracy theory he doesn’t believe. “Are you still a believer in Santa?” Trump asked an unsuspecting 7-year-old, Collman Lloyd, w...

DATE: Dec 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Dana Milbank

A yearly reminder to live in faith daily

New Year’s. A date on the calendar to mark new beginnings. New diets. New exercise programs. New commitments to those things we know we should be doing but we aren’t. I suspect mo...

DATE: Dec 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Thoughts Along The Way

Hike defense spending (and maybe cut welfare)

WASHINGTON – The most uncovered story in Washington these days is the loss of U.S. military power – a lesson particularly important in light of recent events: the resignation of Defense Secr...

DATE: Dec 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson