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WASHINGTON – The stock market is going gangbusters, but whether this reflects the economy’s underlying strength or runaway speculation stumps many experts. Hence, the need for this column: a...
DATE: Jan. 29, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial “Science & Engineering Indicators,” a voluminous document describing the state of...
DATE: Jan. 22, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – Frank Lloyd Wright purportedly said: “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in L.A.” Today, however, Oregon is the state with the strangest state of mind,...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
“It’s just common sense.” How many times have you heard this phrase and thought “If only more people would just use common sense?” I was thinking that during a conversation with Dan Snowberger,...
DATE: Jan. 18, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In his first year in office, President Donald Trump has done many positive things, but his record of conservative achievement has been overshadowed by a whole series of self-inflicted wounds. On...
DATE: Jan. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – For President Trump, a lot is riding on the economy in 2018. If it continues to do well, it should bolster his popularity and his claim that he understands it better than his critics. ...
DATE: Jan. 9, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – If karma is a b---h, then justice is a beauty queen. After recent revelations that the CEO of the Miss America Organization and its pageant scriptwriter were talking trash about past...
DATE: Jan. 4, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As we approach the end of President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the list of extraordinary things he has done - for both good and ill - is nothing short of remarkable. Trump inspires such...
DATE: Jan. 1, 2018 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
I attended the Summit on Education Reform in Nashville, Tennessee. Jeb Bush opened the conference and repeated a quote from the first conference in 2008: “The country’s school system is an 8-track...
DATE: Dec. 29, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
WASHINGTON – What I most dislike about the Trump/Republican tax plan is the shameless cynicism with which it has been peddled. Recall how it works: The government borrows $1.5 trillion over a...
DATE: Dec. 25, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
The sun is just up here in Western Colorado, another brilliant blue sky day, which makes me think of you in Washington, far from the canyons, mesas and mountains where you grew up. It must feel...
DATE: Dec. 18, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
If you believe the old Christmas carol, this is “the most wonderful time of the year.” I believe that it is. I love all things Christmas – the lights, the music, the food, the hustle-bustle of...
DATE: Dec. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
