commentary
After only one regular season game, NFL fans are quick to make overreactive predictions. Gus Jarvis is no different.
‘As goes Colorado, so will go the election,’ President Obama has said.
San Miguel County Commissioner Joan May urges readers to vote.
When 4-year-old Elle wrote, “I like eating lettuce,” her mother knew a bridge had been crossed.
The underappreciated land of the afternoon nap.
Refereeing a football game at any level is hard but it isn’t rocket science.
I think the town of Telluride is to be commended for holding on to this remnant of the “wild” prairie.
OK, honey, let’s make this a real “adventure” TV show. Throw a few kids into the mix, and take a family vacation.
Despite the message on campaign signs, politicians are not all bad.
Schultheis roars back, writing about drivers of “those grotesque ‘recreational’ sarcophagi on wheels we see on the highways these days,” and about the Republican Party’s efforts to squelch the Afri...
Lance Armstrong is giving up the fight to protect his legacy, while Roger Clemens just won’t quit his fight to protect his legacy.
In the fall of 2008, the world economy underwent a severe downturn, the likes of which we have not experienced as a nation since the Great Depression. Paul Reich explains how this fact has adversel...
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photos

SAFETY FIRST – Surrounded by students, Gov. Hickenlooper signed a bill into law at Ouray School on Thursday afternoon that seeks to enhance school safety across Colorado by providing support at the state level to hire more school resource officers. (Photo by Samantha Wright)
RATS’ NEST – A rack of demo bikes at last year’s Ridgway Area Trails (RAT) Festival in Hartwell Park. This year’s 3rd annual will again feature trail building and skills clinics, along with a new Friday beer-and-shorts film night at the Sherbino Theater. (Courtesy photo)
VOLUNTEER Linda Granzow worked twine through spent round casings at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
WARRIOR WIND CHIMES – Welcome Home Montrose staff Emily Smith painted ceramic part of wind chimes at the Welcome Home Montrose Warrior Resource Center last week. (Photo by William Woody)
BACK HOME IN TELLURIDE – members of Telluride’s Volunteer Fire Department helped move the Galloping Goose No. 4 back to its home next to the San Miguel County Courthouse on May 16. The railbus spent the last four years in Ridgway while it was refurbished. (Photo by Brett Schreckengost)

ROBERT JUSTIS (Courtesy photo)

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