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Letters
Encouraging avenue sculptures that celebrate OCC history (posted 2/6/19)

Remember builder of house that restaurant is named for (posted 10/23/18)

Homeless who don't want help 'a problem money will not fix' (posted 10/12/18)

Suggest 'historically inspired design' for Ent project in 3000 block (posted 9/18/18)

Planner of Westside park closed because of vagrants decries its loss (posted 9/9/18)

Planned restroom in front of Bancroft Park 'epitome of bad taste' (posted 6/27/18)


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Editor's Desk
On the library ending overdue-book penalties (posted 1/17/19)

Has it really been 15 years? (posted 1/17/19)

Is city's 'Action Plan' the warmup for a homeless tax? (posted 12/17/18)

Bancroft joins list of moving targets (posted 10/10/18)

Predicting a 1-way 'chat' Sept. 4 (posted 8/21/18)

Crossed up at the crossing (posted 6/30/18)


Cobweb Corners
Early Colorado City yearned for classy Midland station (posted 2/5/19)

Rail safety much improved since early Midland (posted 1/14/19)

Fred Barr and the making of his camp (posted 12/30/18)

When the Incline was a railway (posted 12/9/18)

A concrete bridge where the trains once ran (posted 11/17/18)

What happened to the city's Civil War memorial? (posted 10/24/18)

The mystery portrait of 'Hoodoo 22' (posted 10/2/18)

The grander cars on the Midland Railway (posted 9/11/18)

The short-lived WWII soldier train excursions (posted 8/20/18)

Unsolved 1946 fire destroyed Glen Eyrie School (posted 7/27/18)

The post-World War II Goodyear homes (posted 7/6/18)

1st Chinese restaurant here in the 1940s (posted 6/14/18)

A 2nd year for the race track on mill hill (posted 5/22/18)


Guest Columns
State-proposed 'Right to Rest' law means 'right to camp' in public (posted 1/29/19)

Early Women in the Region: Something about Mary (posted 1/18/19)


Meet a Westsider
Mark Kirkland (posted 9/6/18)


What Do You Do
Michael Rogers (posted 12/22/18)

Barry Brinton (posted 6/8/18)


Meet a Westside Pioneer
Dale Schroeder (posted 1/22/19)

Kem Winternitz (posted 7/8/18)


General
SPEECH: Time to probe the links between marijuana and schizophrenia (posted 2/5/19)

BOOK EXCERPT: When U.S. treated Soviet spies better than defectors (posted 1/15/19)

ESSAY: Wall small price to pay for security at southern border (posted 12/26/18)

ESSAY: Merry CHRIST-mas to all - it's where the magic comes from (posted 12/10/18)

SPEECH: Medical insurance - how we got to this point, and what now? (posted 11/21/18)

ESSAY: A Halloween escapade and a new appreciation for cows (posted 10/12/18)

ESSAY: Study confirms benefits of pregnancy centers (posted 9/19/18)

ESSAY: Disturbing bias findings in IG report on FBI, DOJ (posted 8/28/18)

HUMOR: Looking everywhere for mountain goats (posted 8/6/18)

ESSAY: Supreme Court justices should refer to Constitution first (posted 7/15/18)

ESSAY: A return to the Waco massacre site, 25 years later (posted 5/30/18)

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