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A Montana judge recently ruled the head of the Bureau of Land Management had illegally served as the agency’s director for more than a year. That’s a big deal, seeing as it is the nation’s largest...
DATE: Oct. 28, 2020 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
Conservationists pursue protective designations like wilderness or wild and scenic rivers to help ensure the undeveloped character of cherished places is guaranteed into the future. It’s a bulwark...
DATE: Jan. 16, 2020 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
What do you think is the greatest quote in American history? This is what I think. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
DATE: July 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
My mom passed on to me along my nose, insomnia and a love for old movies. That’s a hint. Like the fictional Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, Greta Garbo was big in the movies, and when she...
DATE: June 20, 2013 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
It is a most interesting phenomenon. Since around Christmastime people who have known me since we moved to Cortez nearly nine years ago walk right by me. I say hello and they nod with blank...
DATE: Feb. 22, 2013 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
Most mornings - way, way too early - I watch what I have dubbed "News Lite." These are mostly the overnight and early morning reports out of Denver, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque. There is also...
DATE: Jan. 25, 2013 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
Not too long ago, one of my friends said he couldn't remember what he received for Christmas last year. I started thinking, what did I get? Off the top of my head, I could only remember one...
DATE: Dec. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
On this long Thanksgiving weekend, I am thinking a lot about the old Hebrew proverb, Jehovah Jireh, The Lord will provide. In Genesis 22:14, following the aborted sacrifice of his son, Isaac,...
DATE: Nov. 23, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
Back around a decade ago, my wife Kim was the very first moderator of the planning team for the brand new Great Plains Wee Kirk Conference. The Wee Kirk or Small Church conference is an education...
DATE: Oct. 27, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
I have discovered that our lives, our actions, what we say and do comes down to one critical one defining moment. All that we do and say leads up to that moment. Then all that we think, will...
DATE: Sept. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
My wife, Kims brother Mike, has been doing their family history. Her maiden name is Ruth, and for years she, our son Chuck and now Mike have been trying to link George Herman Babe Ruth with...
DATE: Aug. 25, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood
Sometimes there is a generation gap between my two sons and me. I dont get a lot of their techno-speak. They dont get a lot of my old-fogy jokes and astuteness.One way we totally get each other...
DATE: June 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Word Moved Into the Neighborhood