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Finally, it seems like our country is poised to start a real gun control debate, and it had better be more substantial than business-as-usual. It seems like a consensus could develop around...
DATE: March 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Friends, the time has come for our country to have a sane, reasonable conversation about gun control and the Second Amendment. The carnage and heartache simply is not stopping and soon enough...
DATE: March 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If you’ve farmed, ranched or owned land in the West, you’ve probably participated in a few discussions about the greater sage-grouse and its imperiled habitat. After two years of relative quiet on...
DATE: March 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
On the opening day of the current legislative session, Senate Republicans introduced a $3.5 billion state transportation plan. If approved by voters in November, Senate Bill 18-001 will take aim...
DATE: March 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Remember “Common Core”? That term first appeared in 2010. It referred, at that time, to the controversial math and English language arts standards that Colorado, along with 41 other states, adopted...
DATE: March 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – He was easily the most influential evangelical Christian of the 20th century – a man at home in the historical company of George Whitefield and John Wesley. But this would be hard to...
DATE: Feb. 26, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If you’ve ever gone to the opening day of your local farmers market only to find some of your favorite farmers aren’t in business anymore, you’re not alone. As a farmer myself, I’ve seen high...
DATE: Feb. 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In 2012 Cortez was the recipient of a Heart & Soul grant awarded by the Orton Family Foundation (think Vermont Country Store). The focus was to develop a strategy for engaging all citizens,...
DATE: Feb. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Recently, President Trump delivered a State of the Union address that won the approval of 75 percent of viewers, including 43 percent of Democrats. Normally, presidents try to ride...
DATE: Feb. 12, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Washington is debating the significance of the memo released by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, but this much should not be debatable: The effort by the FBI to...
DATE: Feb. 8, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – We are a nation of immigrants who are uneasy about immigration. There is a long history of resentment against immigrants, dating to the Irish in the 1840s and the Chinese a few decades...
DATE: Feb. 5, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Just as Bill Clinton’s 1998 State of the Union address is known as the speech after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, Donald Trump’s 2018 State of the Union address is likely to be...
DATE: Feb. 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
