Opinion

It’s never too late

On Jan. 20, 2009, while new President Barack Obama attended an inauguration ball, certain key Republicans met at a Washington restaurant just a short distance away to plan their party’s direction...

DATE: Oct. 23, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Two big-government guys debate

Watching the second Obama-Romney debate Tuesday night was like taking a trip back in political time.Obama calling for more government jobs and cheaper education loans to lift us out of the...

DATE: Oct. 20, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

Here’s the poll to dispute

Republicans say the polls are skewed, until they show their guy in the lead. Then the polls are clearly right and we should all take note! Democrats panic when the polls fluctuate in the least bit...

DATE: Oct. 16, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

The 112th Congress is beyond broken

I don’t really make predictions. But my prediction is in 10 years, we will all snidely refer to anything inept, broken, petty and lazy as being like the 112th Congress.Coaches will yell it at their...

DATE: Oct. 9, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

‘We tried our best’

Editor: My name is Wendy Williams. My husband and I had recently been featured in your article “Mustangs seized.” I would like to voice my side of the story now. I am truly sorry for the mustangs...

DATE: Oct. 4, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Bridge shelter prepares for 7th season

On Oct. 15, 2012, the Bridge Emergency Shelter will open our doors for our seventh season. Generosity of many community members and our local faith community has been vital to our endurance. This...

DATE: Oct. 2, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Makers, takers and the ‘47 percent’

Firing a tile craftsman last week helped me to make sense of the undeniable divide between America’s “makers” and “takers” described in Mitt Romney’s sloppy “47” percent misstatement.Although...

DATE: Sept. 29, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

We are all ‘dependent on government’

Last year when I was covering the Occupy movement, I crashed a “teach-in” at the Cal campus (a public-meaning-government university) where an activist announced they didn’t need government. “We can...

DATE: Sept. 27, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

Candidates’ signature moments

Michelle Dresbold knows more about the presidential candidates than most people.A handwriting expert — she was among 19 Americans to be accepted into the U.S. Secret Service Advanced Document...

DATE: Sept. 22, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

Climate conservatives’ money problem

One should never expect anything other than slanted platitudes in political convention speeches. So, as I sat in the Tampa Bay Times Forum last week, I didn’t expect any speaker to come within a...

DATE: Sept. 18, 2012 | COLUMN: Cagle Cartoons

It’s time to build a new high school

On June 28, Montezuma-Cortez School District Re-1 was awarded a $22.7 million grant from the Building Excellent Schools Today (BEST) program. This grant was awarded because the BEST board...

DATE: Sept. 15, 2012 | COLUMN: Guest Columns

Are we dangerous parents?

It began even before the kids were born, more than 20 years ago. Marypat finally got pregnant after years of miscarriages. We were halfway through winter in a cabin hundreds of miles from the...

DATE: Sept. 13, 2012 | COLUMN: Writers on the Range

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