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The O. Zone: Battle for public lands just now heating up, much like our atmosphere
Holy Cross Wilderness photo by John Fielder. Twice a year I have a story appear in the Vail Daily after it’s been out for a while in the pages of…
Opinion: Realizing Mountain Rail’s full potential in Colorado
Passenger rail in Colorado has been in the headlines recently, primarily focusing on the state’s two most traveled population and economic corridors: (1) Starting new rail services along the state’s most…
Opinion: Worth asking this July 4 weekend — will Trump conspire with GOP to cancel 2026 elections?
The Republican House and Senate, with narrow majorities, just passed Trump’s Big Butt-ugly Bill that will rob from the poor, give to the rich and put a struggling middle class under…
Opinion: When daily violent prayer morphs into homegrown Christian terrorism
A picture taken at Christ for the Nations Institute in March 2024 by author Jeff Sharlet, who recently featured it in an excellent column for Religion Dispatches, which also discusses Vance Luther…
The O. Zone: Trump’s long list of broken campaign promises just jumped to yet another forever war
I agree wholeheartedly with President Donald Trump. At least the version of Trump from the 2024 presidential campaign who said a vote for him was a vote to “turn the page forever on…
The O. Zone: Coming to Vail this summer? Leave fireworks, risky fire behavior at home
The Red Canyon Fire near Wolcott on Wednesday (Eagle Valley Wildland Facebook photo). If you’re signed up for Eagle County emergency alerts (and if you’re not, please stop reading right now and…
Opinion: Could Colorado be next in line for Trump’s U.S. troop deployments?
Poncho Espino, an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, speaks to the crowd during an anti-ICE protest at the Colorado Capitol on Tuesday, June 10 (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline).…
The O. Zone: Hurd has to do much more than the bare minimum, Matt
Eagle County Commissioner Matt Scherr Saturday at No Kings rally in Edwards (David O. Williams photo). Thanks to President Donald Trump’s campaign of mass deportations, America has become a police…
The O. Zone: Trump is stoking racial unrest in order to impose martial law
These deadly “protestors”, many of whom violently clashed with police in an effort to stop the certification of a freely, fairly elected president at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6,…
Opinion: Colorado members of Congress must push hard for more oversight of ICE
A protest at the GEO ICE detention center in Aurora. Few Trump administration agencies are so out of control as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. ICE in recent months has disappeared…