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View from the Boondocks

Holiday tree provides light and cheer in dark days

I got my Yule trees put up this past weekend, and mostly decorated. Our colleagues at the Durango Herald had…

December 17, 2015

Guest Columns

Fact Check: Carson misses the boat on federal lands

Ben Carson said: “The fact that the government owns 2.4 billion acres of land is ridiculous. What do they need…

December 10, 2015

Gulliford's travels

19th-century fur trapper Denis Julien traveled against the current

The mystery of 19th-century fur trapper Denis Julien

December 10, 2015

Columnists

A remedy for Fiorina’s bout with Obamacare

The Affordable Care Act – Obamacare to some – is a perennial target of Republicans. But at the GOP presidential…

December 2, 2015

Guest Columns

Thinking About Health Medicare makes it easier for end-of-life counseling

What a difference six years makes! In 2009 at the height of the debate on the Affordable Care Act, New…

December 2, 2015

Guest Columns

Some facts about screening the Syrian refugees

Carly Fiorina “The vast majority of (Syrian) refugees are young, able-bodied men looking for work.” According to the U.N. High…

November 26, 2015

Columnists

Fact Check: Democratic candidates miss on dollars, common sense

Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders, left, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Martin O’Malley take the stage before a Democratic presidential primary…

November 20, 2015

Thoughts Along The Way

I wonder …

For those of you who read this column somewhat regularly you know that I wonder a lot. I wonder about…

November 20, 2015

Powerful solutions

Winter survival depends on animals’ ability to adapt

To survive the winter months, animals hibernate, migrate or adapt to seasonal conditions. The snowshoe hare turns white and puts…

November 20, 2015

Thoughts Along The Way

Losing your life, and finding the divine

Durango is a nice enough town. I suspect it’s favored by those who live there. After all, for them it…

November 4, 2015

Guest Columns

Fact Check: Clean Power Plan goes to the bottom line

Gov. John Hickenlooper (Democrat) and Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (Republican) are at odds over a lawsuit challenging the EPA’s Clean…

October 29, 2015

Columnists

Unraveling the Democratic presidential debate

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, and former Rhode…

October 22, 2015

Columnists

Benghazi – seven times again

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggested last week that Congress’ current investigation into the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya,…

October 15, 2015

Columnists

Chamber ramped up campaign in 2014

I liked the hedge around the Catholic church, but I like even better the wrought-iron fencing. Some interesting things happened…

October 15, 2015

Columnists

Americans United for Life presents fuzzy picture

Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sparred with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards…

October 8, 2015

Columnists

Letter to Mancos Farewell, Mancos Times

Although I’ve only been in Mancos for four years now, I’ve grown a deep appreciation and love for the community…

October 1, 2015

Columnists

Fact Check: Was Reagan an anti-tax man or not?

Stephen Colbert interviewed presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on the CBS’ The Late Show. Colbert asked Cruz if…

October 1, 2015

Columnists

Come Back to My Valley: Now and then and then some more

The Mancos seventh-grade class of 1947. That’s Darrel Ellis at left in the front row.Courtesy Darrel Ellis An old adage…

October 1, 2015

Thoughts Along The Way

One family in Christ, with values in sync?

I’ve been thinking recently about the phrase “family values.” This is a concept that inhabits both the religious and the…

September 7, 2015

Guest Columns

Firewise: It’s time to prepare for wildfires

The Kern Canyon Fire smoke column two weeks ago can be seen from Cedar Mesa Ranches, where residents looked on…

September 1, 2015

Guest Columns

No better time to prepare your property for wildfires

The Kern Canyon Fire smoke column last week can be seen from Cedar Mesa Ranches, where residents looked on with…

August 27, 2015

Guest Columns

Scorpius’ stars put sting in summer sky

Greetings, stargazers. The late afternoon monsoon clouds finally parted and made for a few good observing evenings recently. Unfortunately for…

August 20, 2015

Others Say

Scorpius’ stars put sting in summer sky

Greetings, stargazers. The late afternoon monsoon clouds finally parted and made for a few good observing evenings recently. Unfortunately for…

August 18, 2015

View from the Boondocks

It’s ‘our’ river too that was desecrated

We’re all downstream or downwind from something. That became all too visible last week as what’s now listed as 3…

August 13, 2015