Entering Friday's season opener, one might look to Northern Colorado's sideline and see Ed Lamb, the veteran coach, and assume he'd have an upper hand on his opponent. Weber State brought first-year college head coach Eric Kjar to Greeley to face Lamb's Bears in the 2026 season opener. Not ...

Although many grade school students in our area have been in school for a week or two, many of our college students are gearing up to get back to classes. It's been a personal journey for me this year, seeing family members at various points of their secondary education careers. I see the ...

An important new book by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), "Going Further," calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, his conservative, originalist ...

What a difference a few years make. Not long ago, politicians said climate change was going to kill us, so we must move to "net zero" emissions. This is theoretically possible. Since vegetation removes carbon, we could get to net zero by burning fewer fossil fuels. Governments ...

Private meetings in Washington often speak more loudly than public speeches. The recent meeting between House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and influential outside adviser, is one of those moments. The two New Yorkers reportedly ...

I got a cell phone when I was 13 years old. It seemed normal, but I never should have been making decisions that could affect my whole life. I was just a child. I think that is what surprises me the most when I look back. Not that I became addicted. Not that it negatively impacted my mental ...