January 3, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
On Dec. 19, the Colorado Supreme Court struck Donald Trump from the ballot under auspices of 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Reader Paul Quackenbush extols other states and voters to follow suit. Read story
January 3, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
It’s an election year. Four years ago was an election year — a year that came to be known, in our house, as The Year That Shall Not Be Named. Rather than repeating the ugliness of that year, might we resolve, at this year’s beginning, to do better? Read story
January 2, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
We can all agree that there is no moral equivalence between the origins of Ukraine and Gaza. The Ukraine conflict was started for no reason by a brutal dictator. Gaza started with an attack on Israel by Hamas, which used unthinkable brutality on innocent civilians. The outcome of these two… Read story
January 2, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
While searching for a parking spot at Costco, right before Christmas, I turned into a parking lane with an empty spot only to see a car waiting, blinker on, on the other side. I looked up to see a woman who was yelling at me: “I SEE YOU!” and pointing… Read story
January 2, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
If you are not a billionaire or millionaire, you may want to look at who is running the Republican Party. The Heritage Foundation, a think tank funded by a number of billionaires whose objective is to preserve their money, scripts everything the GOP does. It is financed by large sums… Read story
January 2, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
There has been much discussion recently about the potential threat to democracy posed by a second Trump presidential term. Losing democracy would be bad enough, but even worse would be the erosion of personal freedoms that depend on the existence of democracy. This includes the prospect of increased government intrusion… Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
Some of the recent national news accounts and letters to the Columbian led me to reflect on the question: Who is your enemy? Read story
December 30, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
It breaks my heart to see so many homeless here in Clark County. Read story
December 30, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
Let’s be realistic: Would you like 30 trucks all day up and down county roads or maybe eight or 10 rail cars once a day on a dedicated, safe stretch of track? Read story
December 30, 2023, 6:00am Letters to the Editor
Fear is a normal part of human nature. Fear has helped us survive, but it has also been used by politicians to control our thinking. Read story
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