Columnists

  • Fact check

    • President Obama said that a review board headed by former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mike Mullen and veteran diplomat Thomas Pickering...

  • There's an app for that!

    • Tourist traffic at the Visitor Center (VC) has definitely been picking up. We have seen international travelers from South Africa, Germany, France...

  • Dig into reading at the library

    • The days are getting longer and the weather's getting warmer, which means summer must be right around the corner. Bring up summer at the library, and...

  • Herstory: Mari Sandoz

    • Mary Suzette Sandoz (Mari Sandoz) was born May 11, 1896, at Sandoz Post Office, Running Water Precinct in Sheridan County, Neb. Until the age of 9...

  • Close call with Alferd Packer

    • It had to have been a letdown last week when you read that three young local men had perpetrated the heist at the train depot, but it must have been...

  • Music and art! Art and music!

    • OLIO ART: The artist being shown at Olio currently is Nancy Richmond. To call her work photographs is to give a false impression. She starts with a...

  • Fact Check

    • Sen. John McCain exaggerated when he claimed that about 25 percent of prisoners released from Guantanamo have returned to terrorist activities in...

  • First World 'problems'

    • Traveling in the clouds

    "Marijuana tourists" are expected to converge on Colorado and Washington, hoping to score without fear of handcuffs,...

  • Wow! It's summer!

    • Beth Wheeler: Beth Wheeler's show continues at the Mancos Town Gallery (on Bauer at Boyle Park). Beth created an artistic documentary of her trip to...

  • After all that suspense ...

    • Doc Shores, the secret service agent, asked Ed Caviness, "Was the reason the robber asked you to hold the sack for the boodle was because you were...

  • Herstory: Mary French Sheldon

    • It was worthwhile if my venture may be instrumental in bringing about peaceful, humane methods of would-be colonizers, and banish forever the...

  • Attentiveness vs. distraction

    • Showing the worth of a person or task by giving my undivided concentration.



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