Columnists

Samuelson: The triumph of downward mobility

du1-i-syn WASHINGTON – It’s an axiom among many Americans that each future generation will live better than its predecessor. New…

August 6, 2018

Looking back

The Hammond brothers’ journey west to Rico

Editor’s note: This is the first of two Looking Back columns about the Hammond brothers. Part 2 is scheduled to…

July 30, 2018

Kathleen Parker

Parker: Feeling sorry for Trump? That’s the plan

du1-i-syn WASHINGTON – Two distinct realities coexist in the nation’s capital with the approximate compatibility of oil and water. There’s…

July 30, 2018

Heard Around the West

Breast milk is the best food for infants, plain and simple

Next week is World Breastfeeding Week. This topic has never been more timely than it is today. Scientific research continues…

July 28, 2018

Kathleen Parker

Parker: Scrappy pilot versus Bigfoot hunter in Tennessee

du1-i-syn JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – Republican Ashley Nickloes is the only woman in a seven-way primary race to fill a…

July 23, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Get ready for the coming welfare wars

du1-i-syn WASHINGTON – The Trump administration may have declared it over, but a new War on Poverty is coming anyways.…

July 19, 2018

From the Mayor

Sheek: A question of transparency

du1-i-syn If you’ve ventured down the east side of Main Street, you’re aware that the median project has begun. When…

July 12, 2018

Michael Gerson

Gerson: Feds should take note of prison reform successes

Michael Gerson, Washington Postdu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – An administration not known for policy creativity is unlikely to have useful internal policy…

July 9, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Why our neo-isolationism will not work

du1-i-syn WASHINGTON – As we near July Fourth, America has taken a turn for the worst. The great delusion of…

July 2, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: History of 1930 tariff legislation is haunting

Samuelsondu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – The ghost of Smoot-Hawley seems to haunt President Trump. You will recall that Smoot-Hawley was the sweeping…

June 28, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Consequences of unraveling trade rules unclear

Robert Samuelson, The Washington Postdu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – The escalating trade war between the United States and China poses crucial, though…

June 22, 2018

Kathleen Parker

Parker: Nukes for condos in North Korea?

Parkerdu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – Well, it happened: The president and the dictator met, shook hands, looked each other in the eye,…

June 18, 2018

From the Mayor

Summer plans and projects underway in Cortez

Mayor Karen Sheekdu1-i-syn It’s been a busy few weeks in Cortez. On May 23, the results of a “Feasibility and…

June 15, 2018

Gulliford's travels

Mancos man’s father helped build Durango, brick by brick

Father’s Day is special for most of us, but for one son, it has a particularly deep meaning. When writers…

June 11, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: Trump’s trade myths about politics, not economy

Robert Samuelson, The Washington Postdu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – You cannot understand President Trump’s so-called “trade war” without acknowledging that it’s mostly…

June 11, 2018

Charles Krauthammer

Krauthammer: Fate has decided for me

du1-i-syn I have been uncharacteristically silent these past 10 months. I had thought that silence would soon be coming to…

June 11, 2018

Guest Columns

James: Self-raised and it shows

Tom Jamesdu1-i-syn Anyone who knows me very well will tell you that I’m not the most fastidious man that ever…

June 7, 2018

Guest Columns

Noxious weed management underway in Mancos

Heather Alvarez of Mancosdu1-i-syn In May, the town of Mancos received a letter from Montezuma County urging us to better…

June 7, 2018

Guest Columns

Parker: Roseanne’s ouster shows times are changing

Parkerdu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – Roseanne Barr’s appeal has so long eluded me that her further fall from disgrace has failed to…

June 4, 2018

Robert Samuelson

Samuelson: The threat from Italy’s economic turmoil

Samuelsondu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on…

May 31, 2018

Looking back

Early Mesa Verde center included cabins, a shop and a bear

If you were to ask the man on the street, “Where is Hallarville?” You would get a blank stare. Old-timers…

May 30, 2018

Guest Columns

The globalization of threats is an unavoidable fact

du1-i-syn WASHINGTON – Those who find “globalists” to be villains should attend to recent events in Congo. In the remote…

May 25, 2018

Robert Samuelson

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…

May 21, 2018

Guest Columns

Singletary: Speedy credit card transactions dangerous for consumers

MIchelle Singletarydu1-i-syn WASHINGTON – In hawking its iPhone X, Apple produced a pretty fly commercial. Fly as in stylish. Or,…

May 17, 2018