This year, in what it calls a “study,” Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources is killing off mountain lions in an effort to increase mule deer herds. It has hired…
Read more Utah begins to cull mountain lions to ‘study’ the effect (Opinion)Gov. Gavin Newsom is putting on quite a show. He flew to Switzerland for the World Economic Forum, Germany for the Munich Security Conference and the United Kingdom…
Read more Susan Shelley: Newsom’s European power trip powered by hot airTraveling outside the U.S., it used to be enough to disassociate yourself from the danger to the world posed by Donald Trump by saying you’re from California. Now,…
Read more Larry Wilson: How in the world to talk about TrumpIn the early 1980s, southeast Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes from nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy…
Read more Moab is not a place for “nuclear tourism.” The DOE can’t sugarcoat spent nuclear fuel. (Opinion)Last month, as required by law, State Auditor Grant Parks published an annual report on state programs and agencies that his office deems to be at “high risk”…
Read more Critics draw iffy link between Gavin Newsom’s record and Minnesota’s food fraud scandalAfter years of increasingly brutal oppression, Venezuela is finally free of dictator Nicolás Maduro after he was captured last Saturday by the U.S. military in Caracas. Exiled Venezuelans…
Read more Maduro is out. Whether that serves U.S. interests remains to be seen.2025 was the year of remedial education for the Colorado General Assembly. Since legislators in the majority just can’t seem to understand the First Amendment, they got schooled…
Read more Colorado got schooled by the courts on our constitutional freedoms, again in 2025 (Opinion)President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy, released Dec. 4, largely charts a needed correction for the United States on military and foreign policy. Such papers are not…
Read more Trump’s new National Security Strategy pushes global realismTrump administration’s concern for Colorado inmates contradicts actions Re: “DOJ investigating state’s prisons,” Dec. 9 news story I read with great interest that President Donald Trump’s Department of…
Read more Where is Trump’s concern for conditions in federal detention centers? (Letters)If anyone needed proof of how swiftly political change can arrive, this fall is probably Example A. Just observe the last month. First, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was…
Read more Prop. 50 likely to stay intact no matter the fate of Texas gerrymanderingIf U.S. tariffs on imports raise prices on American consumers, should we care if the government calls them taxes or fees? Throughout his time as Treasury Secretary, Scott…
Read more Scott Bessent is wrong. Tariffs are taxes that hurt Americans.As former members of the Denver Public Schools Board of Education, we have long respected the complexity and responsibility of serving on the board. It is a demanding…
Read more These DPS incumbent candidates don’t support school choice (Opinion)Former Gov. Jerry Brown once referred to overhauling the California Environmental Quality Act as “the Lord’s work” because, he said, it made building much-needed things — housing, transportation…
Read more Ballot measure would broaden reform of California’s key environmental lawTragically, in 2019, my fiancée took her own life. What began as one of the most heartbreaking, devastating experiences of my life, turned into an unending nightmare. The…
Read more I spent three months in jail because a prosecutor hid evidence of my fiance’s suicide (Opinion)Former President William Jefferson Clinton’s 1996 State of the Union Address announced that “the era of big government is over.” Federal expenditures for fiscal year 1996 were $1.5…
Read more Past government shutdowns haven’t tamed Leviathan. This one won’t either.Forty years ago this month, I began a 9,000-mile tour of California, gathering data, conversations and observations about megatrends propelling the state into the next century. The result…
Read more California’s two-tier economy mirrors Great Britain’s ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ pastFor all the talk about a housing shortage, there’s proportionately little attention paid to how the U.S. government is aggravating the situation by kicking out the workers who…
Read more America needs immigrant labor in its construction workforceJews across the world are preparing to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. As the holiday that marks and celebrates the creation of the world, it is…
Read more Rosh Hashanah is reminder of our responsibility to each other (Opinion)Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure, was assassinated on Wednesday while speaking at a college campus in Utah. At the time of this writing, we have no clear…
Read more Charlie Kirk’s assassination reminds us of the choice we face: words or bulletsWhen former Vice President Kamala Harris announced that she would not enter California’s gubernatorial race, the assumption was that she did so in order to take another shot…
Read more Douglas Schoen: Redistricting raises Newsom’s profile, but risks remain