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The La Center wrestling team celebrates its 50-28 win over Castle Rock on Tuesday, Jan.

La Center wrestlers can finally call themselves league champions

The La Center wrestling team celebrates its 50-28 win over Castle Rock on Tuesday, Jan.

February 3, 2020, 6:33am Columns

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Jones: Kobe’s supportive legacy

February 2, 2020, 6:01am Columns

When Kobe Bryant died last week in a helicopter crash, along with his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others, the world wept. Read story

Richie: It’s time for a fairer presidential nomination process

February 2, 2020, 6:01am Columns

After a year of campaigning, the first votes are finally being cast in the 2020 presidential primaries. While Donald Trump has an apparent lock on the Republican nomination, Democrats have a wide open contest. Of the dozen remaining candidates, polls suggest that none will receive even 30 percent of the… Read story

Other Papers Say: Microsoft leads climate action

February 2, 2020, 6:00am Columns

Microsoft is demonstrating strong leadership with its bold new climate pledge. Read story

Pitts: Kobe’s death prompts analysis of existence, life

January 31, 2020, 6:01am Columns

‘Kobe is dead.” Read story

Ambrose: Impeachment free advertising for Democrats

January 30, 2020, 6:01am Columns

It’s kind of interesting that the central goal of Democrats in the wild-and-wooly Capitol impeachment hearings is to use their misapplied, blistering power to ruin the re-election chances of Republican President Donald Trump. Their central case against Trump is that this is the kind of thing he did — use… Read story

Camden: Constitutional scholars abound

January 29, 2020, 6:01am Columns

People who don’t spend much time in legislative hearings — which is to say the lucky souls who comprise the vast majority of the populace — might be surprised to know the state is apparently awash with constitutional scholars. Read story

Saunders: Fact-checkers look at one side

January 28, 2020, 6:01am Columns

Google “fact-check Senate impeachment” and you can read about all the factual errors made by President Donald Trump’s team of lawyers. What about those of the House impeachment managers? Apparently head prosecutor Adam Schiff and his colleagues cannot tell a lie. Or even a half-truth. Read story

Buscemi: School meals to regress?

January 26, 2020, 6:01am Columns

On Jan. 17, Michelle Obama’s birthday, the Trump administration proposed rollbacks in nutrition standards in the school meal program. Under the proposal, legumes and potatoes will count as vegetables, fewer fruits will be served at breakfast and a la carte meals will allow students to select items high in fat. Read story

Trejo: I donated my kidney to a stranger – and more of us should

January 26, 2020, 6:01am Columns

For most of my life, I’ve been a model of good health. At 17, I became a firefighter, and, at 20, I biked from Texas to Alaska. But last month, at 25, I spent a week in bed recovering from surgery, with fresh incision holes in my abdomen, because I… Read story