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Healing Nutrition Five immunity boosters to add to your diet

Sometimes in the winter it feels like coughing, scratchy throats and runny noses are just a part of daily life.…

February 20, 2019

Fareed Zakaria

American left must find its voice on Venezuela

NEW YORK – The Trump administration faces a test in Venezuela. It must pursue a foreign policy that helps usher…

February 14, 2019

Gulliford's travels

A Mesa Verde plate: New tags would help support national park

Instead of fake news, how about real news? Instead of political posturing and name calling, how about a project to…

February 13, 2019

Thoughts Along The Way

A time to keep silence

Leigh Waggonerdu1-i-syn Words … words … and more words. We are inundated by them. Words written and words spoken. Words…

February 13, 2019

Dana Milbank

Labor’s death reports were greatly exaggerated

Something funny happened on the way to the labor movement’s funeral. When Justice Samuel Alito and his antilabor colleagues on…

February 7, 2019

Looking back

The ignoble death of Sheriff Wesley Dunlap

Editor’s note: Part 2 of this article will appear in the March 1 issue. Portions of this article were found…

January 29, 2019

Stewards of the Land

Abert’s squirrels are friends to the ponderosa pines

Abert’s squirrels can be spotted during the winter months.Courtesy Sometimes, winter in the forest can seem like there isn’t much…

January 25, 2019

Robert Samuelson

Maybe there’s something we can do on warming

WASHINGTON – On global climate change, I’ve changed my mind – just slightly. I’ve written about this issue for more…

January 21, 2019

Robert Samuelson

What Sears and GE declines say about capitalism

WASHINGTON – General Electric and Sears have fallen on hard times, and that tells us a lot about U.S. capitalism.…

January 17, 2019

Gulliford's travels

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…

January 12, 2019

Others Say

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…

January 12, 2019

Powerful solutions

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…

January 11, 2019

Writers on the Range

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…

January 4, 2019

Dana Milbank

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…

January 3, 2019

Looking back

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

January 1, 2019

Dana Milbank

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?”…

December 31, 2018

Thoughts Along The Way

A yearly reminder to live in faith daily

Leigh Waggonerdu1-i-syn New Year’s. A date on the calendar to mark new beginnings. New diets. New exercise programs. New commitments…

December 31, 2018

Robert Samuelson

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…

December 24, 2018

Writers on the Range

What I want for Christmas

I’m no different from my friends. I’d love to open the paper on Christmas day and see that world peace…

December 10, 2018

Gulliford's travels

Mancos mapmaker chronicles John Wesley Powell’s epic 1869 journey

December 8, 2018

Dana Milbank

The 2020 presidential field – oh, we have names

Until now, there were, by my count, 44 Democrats who have either expressed interest in a 2020 presidential run, traveled…

December 4, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Great Recession worse than Great Depression?

WASHINGTON – Here’s today’s economic quiz: Was the 2007-09 Great Recession more damaging than the Great Depression of the 1930s?…

November 29, 2018

Michael Gerson

Can one GOP candidate take on Trump in 2020?

WASHINGTON – Republicans who are thinking about opposing President Trump in the 2020 primaries are facing the hardest of political…

November 19, 2018

Healing Nutrition

Three tips for surviving the holidays

Worried your willpower will let you down this holiday season? You should be, but read on because there’s still hope.…

November 14, 2018