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Given keys to Congress, GOP spins out on first lap

WASHINGTON – Doesn’t anybody here know how to work this thing? For 10 years, Republicans have waited for their chance to govern, and finally the voters handed them the car keys: u...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Trying to understand the new world order in 2017

WASHINGTON – One insistent question that will shape 2017 is whether we’re witnessing the gradual decay of the post-World War II international order, dominated by the economic and military po...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Trump should look into the reality of Putin’s soul

WASHINGTON – “Spare us the kissy-face.” It was June 2001 and I was covering President George W. Bush’s trip to Slovenia, where he had just met Vladimir Putin for the first time. I...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Columnists

Putin’s gift to America

WASHINGTON – It may be wishful thinking, but it’s just possible that Vladimir Putin has done us a great favor. He has alerted us to the true threat of cyberwarfare in a way that — again, jus...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Fall of Aleppo showcases America’s declining role

WASHINGTON — The fall of Aleppo just weeks before Barack Obama leaves office is a fitting stamp on his Middle East policy of retreat and withdrawal. The pitiable pictures from the devastated...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Great Depression that did not ever happen

WASHINGTON – There is no mystery about Barack Obama’s greatest presidential achievement: He stopped the Great Recession from becoming a second Great Depression. True, he had plen...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies

WASHINGTON — Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Not waste, but the Pentagon vs. the welfare state

WASHINGTON – Any reporter who’s written about the federal budget knows that there’s a surefire solution to every problem. It’s called “fraud, waste and abuse.” You want to end budget deficit...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Guest Columns

Education, from top down to bottom up

Thank you for the honor to serve on the state board of education for the 3rd Congressional District. I appreciate each and every one of the 194,116 of you who gave me your vote and support. ...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the Board of Education

Lizard Head has changed landscape of Southwest Colorado

The Mancos Times-Tribune Dec. 29, 1911 The skyline of the mountains to the southwest of Telluride was changed last night when, through some mighty upheaval of nature, t...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Looking back

It’s time to resist federal control of education

By Joyce Rankin I received a letter from a student asking to limit the amount of testing required in high school. He was holding the federal government responsible for what is wro...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: From the Board of Education

Interns benefit wilderness in many ways

Training a new employee is often time consuming and costs a business a great deal of money and resources. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 1 in 3 employees in the U.S. leave his or...

DATE: Mar 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Miscellaneous Columns

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