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From now through mid-December of 2013, all over the world, a brand-new comet will become visible to the naked eye in our morning skies before dawn. This morning comet is named ISON, and this is its...
DATE: Nov. 18, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
In the final part of John McPhee’s 1971 classic, Encounters with the Archdruid, David Brower and Floyd Dominy — both men I would have loved to meet — raft the Grand Canyon together. Dominy, then...
DATE: Sept. 9, 2013 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range
One sign of the dysfunction in Washington these days is that the conversations there have completely detached from the ones happening in kitchens and living rooms across Colorado and the country. ...
DATE: Sept. 6, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
Get this: Happiness among human beings peaks at age 23, tanks at 55, then peaks again at 69. So says a study by the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, as reported...
DATE: Aug. 29, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
Old joke: two cannibals are eating a clown and one says, “Does this taste funny to you?” In a case of life imitating joke, political partisans squared off in the case of the Obama-mask wearing...
DATE: Aug. 27, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
SAN JOSE, Calif. — All I know about climate, some say, is what’s outside my window. Across much of California this is one of the coolest summers in memory, with temperatures well below normal. ...
DATE: Aug. 20, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
I’ve been thinking about the sorry state of American culture, and that made me reminisce about the Cold War. You remember the Cold War. It brought us espionage, alliances with cheesy dictators and...
DATE: Aug. 15, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
It’s a classic case of déjà vu, and you get that sinking, ominous feeling. And then a (momentarily) optimistic one. The sinking feeling: reports about a new al-Qaida terrorist threat that sounded...
DATE: Aug. 8, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
I had planned to gently explain to Larry Berger the errors in his diatribe against Sheriff Spruell. However, Bud Garner, Charles Thompson and many others have done the job for me, forcefully and...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
As the former sheriff prior to Dennis Spruell, I wanted to correct Pat Requena’s assumptions in her recent letter. It surprised me that a former CPA would publish financial-based business...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2013 | COLUMN: Guest Columns
LOS ANGELES — Is it possible to have a s-e-r-i-o-u-s discussion on race in America? In light of some of the reaction to President Barack Obama’s comments on race in the aftermath of George...
DATE: July 29, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
Nuclear efficiency systems engineer Jeremy Preston moved back into his house in Delaware from Tennessee, where his license to carry a concealed weapon was also legal in Delaware. He bought a car...
DATE: July 15, 2013 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons
