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Sheek: Get informed! 2018 is the year of the mid-term elections

It’s the mid-term elections. The cycle begins with city/town elections on April 3, primaries in June, and the general election in November with candidates for county commission, state and fe...

DATE: Mar 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: From the Mayor

Leather as art: The work of Lisa and Loren Skyhorse

Master saddlemakers combine the finest craftsmanship, artistry

DATE: Mar 15, 2018 | CATEGORY: Gulliford's travels

The Utah Headliners: FOIA is the speedometer, not the cop writing tickets

The Utah Headliners Sunshine Week is here, and we who value government transparency are again celebrating the laws that allow us to know what our local, state and federal governme...

DATE: Mar 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Bye: Returning guns to their proper role in society

Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could develop around...

DATE: Mar 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Kent: Let’s have a conversation about gun control

Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enou...

DATE: Mar 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

How to make, not break, sage-grouse recovery

If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of ...

DATE: Mar 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

James: When luck is just luck

Do you ever think about luck? Man, I do. It’s always there, mashed somewhere between love, snuff, horses and coffee. Good luck, bad luck, lots of luck, no luck; it seems there is...

DATE: Mar 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Watch Yore Topknot

Cooke: Transportation fix hits partisan speedbump

On the opening day of the current legislative session, Senate Republicans introduced a $3.5 billion state transportation plan. If approved by voters in November, Senate Bill 18-0...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Rankin: Common core standards, are we ready for a change?

Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial math and English language arts standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, ...

DATE: Mar 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Nevada Colony of the Dolores River Valley in 1872

Editor’s Note: This is the second of three parts of Erastus Thompson’s recollections of life in Montezuma County in the late 1800s. The entire article is in the Montezuma County Historic...

DATE: Feb 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Looking back

Gerson: Billy Graham was consumed by grace and gratitude

WASHINGTON – He was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century – a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley. But this ...

DATE: Feb 26, 2018 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Haukeness: School district committed to all-around student well-being

When people think of school, they think mostly of classroom teaching. Other factors, though, can prevent a child from being safe, healthy and fully focused on learning. Throughou...

DATE: Feb 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education Update