Iranian uranium, Texas emissions and immigrant murders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's highly anticipated speech to Congress contained a curious statement. He claimed Secretary of State John Kerry "confirmed last week that Iran could...

DATE: March 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Biden missteps on health care, international rig counts

Vice President Joe Biden resurrected years-old, Democratic talking points on the Affordable Care Act and oil production during a recent speech in New Hampshire. Biden said the ACA would reduce U.S....

DATE: March 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Mancos during the Vietnam War

Wonder what was written about the Vietnam War in 1970? Mancos Times-Tribune, April 14, 1970 Funeral services are pending for Master Sgt. Robert M. Liddell, who died in Vietnam on April 7. The Fort...

DATE: March 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Art Beat School of the West is ready

The Mancos School of the West is off and running. Check out the website for a list of classes and workshops. Registrar Patricia Burk tells me that they are filling up fast, so don't wait. Their...

DATE: March 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Coffman's quote on combat status holds water

"Let me start by telling you something I haven't done," said Rep. Coffman (R-Colo.), a Marine Corps combat veteran. "I have never run a federal agency that tolerates corruption the way the VA has....

DATE: Feb. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Graduates from Mancos High in 1974

I wondered who graduated from Mancos High in 1974. Mancos Times-Tribune, May 23, 1974 Marva Jean Ellis has been named Valedictorian of the graduating class with Susan Diana Eppich and Margaret...

DATE: Feb. 24, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Clearing up false claims about false claims on climate data

Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been "falsified" and manipulated. Palmer, a Republican from Alabama, cited the...

DATE: Feb. 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Mountain snow eases fear of 1935 dust storms

The Dust Bowl's Black Sunday was in April 1935. Mancos Times-Tribune, April 12, 1935. It is a great relief, as one reads about dust storms in another part of the country, to be able to say that we...

DATE: Feb. 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

The drought of 1939, and 115 days without rain

I was 5 years old, so memory is not exact of that time, but it seems to me that Mae McGalliard played the organ to give sound to the movies being shown in the Opera House. I realize now that is not...

DATE: Feb. 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Rand Paul may need to revisit the science of medicine

Sen. Rand Paul gave false and misleading statements about vaccine safety in two separate interviews, including a claim that "many" children have developed "profound mental disorders" after...

DATE: Feb. 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Fox brings up the rear in march toward truth

PunditFact, a sister site of PolitiFact dedicated to fact-checking pundits and talking heads, last looked at its network scorecards in September. The scorecards measure statements made by a pundit...

DATE: Feb. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

Come Back to My Valley: You can go home again

After 13 years of fairly good times, I came back to Mancos early in April of 1969. I wondered what I came home to.Mancos Times-Tribune, April 3, 1969 The annual Easter Egg hunt sponsored by the VFW...

DATE: Feb. 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: MT - Columnists

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