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The globalization of threats is an unavoidable fact

WASHINGTON – Those who find “globalists” to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo. In the remote region of a remote country, government agencies and international institutions ...

DATE: May 25, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Our new capitalism strikingly resembles the old

WASHINGTON – We flatter ourselves into thinking that we live in a time of exceptional economic upheaval. The truth is that the present resembles the past. What we learned – and forget – is t...

DATE: May 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Robert Samuelson

Singletary: Speedy credit card transactions dangerous for consumers

WASHINGTON – In hawking its iPhone X, Apple produced a pretty fly commercial. Fly as in stylish. Or, “totally lit,” as teens say. Apple’s “Fly Market” ad highlights how easy it is to pay wit...

DATE: May 17, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rankin: Colorado’s charter schools outperformed all public schools nationally

Have you wondered how students in Colorado compare academically to students in other states? There is a nationally recognized test given every other year to fourth and eighth-gra...

DATE: May 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: Joyce Rankin

Sheek: Maintaining the beautiful landscape of Cortez

Spring is knocking at the door so it seemed appropriate to focus this month’s column on the city’s park superintendent, Mark Boblitt. Mark heads a crew of two full-time and seven...

DATE: May 14, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

In Bluff, the Silver Dollar Bar becomes the Bears Ears Education Center

Downtown Durango thrives because buildings get recycled. Former car dealerships are now brewpubs and office buildings. Our historic electric power plant is the Powerhouse Science...

DATE: May 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

Nutrient-dense asparagus can be prepared in many ways

Oh yes, spring is my favorite season. Calves, lambs, fawns appearing across the fields and, best of all, the asparagus! It starts appearing mid-April and ends in June. As one of the few pere...

DATE: May 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Sheriff Update

Paul Ryan tries – and fails – at a House exorcism

WASHINGTON — Given the cornucopia of issues Americans have to select from each day, the recent firing and rehiring of the House of Representatives’ chaplain may not have bestirred many to fo...

DATE: May 7, 2018 | CATEGORY: Kathleen Parker

Brown: Access to international trade critical for Colorado ranchers and farmers

If you live in Colorado, or if your business is touched in any way by any aspect of the agricultural industry, the ongoing national discussion about trade agreements and import tariffs shoul...

DATE: May 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Families tell history of a Route 666 ghost town

By June Head Montezuma County Historical Society Ackmen was a dryland community that was bypassed by the construction of U.S. Route 666, now known as U.S. Highway 491. ...

DATE: May 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

James: Here we are, back where we started

Hats, specifically cowboy hats, been wearin’ ’em all my life. Started out with the little black, flat-crowned, flat-laced brim kid’s hat with a stampede string. I wore it proudly through my ...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Watch Yore Topknot

Coram: Being responsible with our water

Most people do not realize that managing water in the West is larger an effort than putting a man on the moon. The wells, reservoirs and ditches needed to direct water for both a...

DATE: Apr 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the State Senate