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San Juan County, N.M., Commission to meet

San Juan County, New Mexico, Commission will meet at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the commission chambers in the county Administration Building, 100 S. Oliver Drive, Aztec. Comments may be s...

Timothy Egan: Some Statues Tell Lies. This One Tells the Truth.

The United States is in a muddle over how to tell our history, stuck between an aggressive revisionism that would leave few commemorative statues standing, and a stubborn clinging to all the...

Ezra Klein: Let’s launch a moonshot for meatless meat

I’m a vegan, but I’m also a realist. There’s no chance humanity is going to give up meat, en masse, anytime soon. That said, we can’t just wish away the risks of industrial animal agricultur...

Weekly planner for May 3-7

Information and agendas about local meetings City of Durango: La Plata County: www.co.laplata.co.us or call 382-6210. Town of Bayfield: www.bayfieldgov.org or call 884-9544. ...

Stitch receives national recognition

Stitch, a sewing and quilting boutique on Main Avenue in Durango, will be featured in the Spring/Summer 2021 issue of Quilter Sampler Magazine as one of the top 10 quilt shops in the nation....

Letter: Boebert uninformed, miseld constituents on bone marrow bill

As a bone marrow transplant recipient and the former chair of the National Marrow Donor Program board of directors, I was extremely dismayed to see Rep. Lauren Boebert vote against reauthori...

Letter: Support the $15 minimum wage

This letter recognizes the struggles with low-paying jobs and the factors of increasing unemployment and taxes. According to the Economic Policy Institute, “A majority (59%) of w...

Our View: We’ll take those cocktails to go, please

To-go, delivery drinks help restaurants

Tracy Jones: Guilty verdict for Chauvin is relief, not victory

The guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial is a relief, but not a victory. A victory is when we no longer need a witness to record the murder of a Black man in order to reciev...

Letter: Keep up COVID-19 safety protocols

Summer is coming, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is leaving. As of April 25, data from the CDC states that only 28.5% of the United States population is fully vaccinated, with an extra 8% of...

Editorial cartoons

March library events

1900 East Third Ave. Contact: 375-3380, www.durangopubliclibrary.org. Events by date Tuesdays: Weekly activity kits for children and teens. Kits include supplies for one child to complet...