Author: Jim Trotter
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Protecting the Yampa: Unique fund in northwest Colorado celebrates 5 years in service to the river
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While it’s a hot, dry, wildfire-causing summer in Colorado, at least one basin in the state is blowing out the candles for a unique cavalry riding in to help keep water in its river. Coming…
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New biography details Mark Twain’s evolution as a political voice | Tom Cronin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save America’s best known and most revered storyteller, Mark Twain (1835-1910), is remembered for his novels, satirical punditry and travel writings, but is rarely thought of as a political thinker and activist. A lengthy and remarkably…
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Town manager blasts Telluride ski owner for neglect: ‘Chuck is not here’
Thursday night was one of brutal critique for Telluride Ski & Golf owner Chuck Horning, who bore the brunt of a rare public rebuke from the town manager of nearby Mountain Village, which was later reinforced by a Telluride City Council member. Mountain Village Town Manager Paul Wisor slammed Horning as an out-of-touch owner whose…
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The massive fence that has divided means of life in the San Luis Valley
SAN LUIS • This land has gone by many names. The “Sangre de Cristo Grant,” so named by the Mexican government in 1844 to encourage settlement. “Taylor Ranch.” And now “Cielo Vista Ranch.” For Eli Rael, whose ancestors moved here in the late 1800s, it’s always been simply “La Sierra,” a communal mountain landscape where settlers…
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Matthew McConaughey, Ukraine’s Zelensky highlight National Governors meet
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save SALT LAKE CITY • Everything is not all right, all right, all right in America, Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey told a rapt crowd at the National Governors Association meeting here on Friday, alluding to presidential politics and bitter partisanship. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky followed him onto…
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Gazette investigative reporter honored by Polk for unmasking Colorado’s family courts
Gazette senior investigative reporter Chris Osher has been awarded the prestigious George Polk Award for his work in exposing Colorado’s dysfunctional and dangerous family court system. The annual national awards, among the most respected in journalism, were announced Monday in New York. This is the first Polk Award ever awarded to The Gazette. Also honored…
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Liz Cheney: Bruised tiger with a mission | Tom Cronin
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Liz Cheney is a Ford-Reagan-Bush-Romney-Dick Cheney Republican. But she is not a Trump Republican. She served as the U.S. representative from Wyoming from 2017 until January 2023. Earlier, she had worked for Fox News for a while after she was a State Department official. She…
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Forgotten front: The drive to aid Ukraine
This article is the third in a series of reports on the war in Ukraine’s effect on bordering Eastern European countries. It is written by two Colorado College students traveling through the region and details how local organizations have refocused their efforts to support migrants fleeing the conflict. KOŠICE, Slovakia • February 24, 2022, began like…
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What does Prigozhin’s rebellion mean for front-line fighters?
KOŠICE, Slovakia • As Yevgeny Prigozhin’s troops marched toward Moscow last month, Vladimir Putin compared the rebellion to the uprising of 1917. But instead of toppling the Russian government, the Wagner mercenary group changed course. More than a week later, Russia’s military remains composed and entrenched along the front lines of the war. Ukrainian journalist and…